Interview, Portfolio & CV
Make your application impossible to ignore
Structured CV and portfolio review plus realistic mock interviews — scored against the criteria that actually decide selection.
Services
From document to offer
48-hour CV review
Fast, prioritised, actionable feedback.
Portfolio building
Map and evidence the domains you need.
Mock interviews
Scored against real selection criteria.
The selection reality
Applications are scored, not read
UK specialty and NHS recruitment rarely turns on how impressive a candidate sounds. It turns on whether the evidence on the page maps cleanly to the published person specification and scoring framework. Selectors work through structured domains — clinical experience, commitment to specialty, quality improvement, teaching, leadership, and academic activity — and award points against descriptors. A strong doctor can score poorly simply because their portfolio buries the evidence, uses the wrong language, or leaves a domain unaddressed. Conversely, a well-organised application makes the assessor's job easy and lets your actual achievements count for full marks.
Our work is to close that gap between what you have done and what the scoring rewards. We read your CV and portfolio the way an assessor does, identify where points are being lost, and tell you precisely what to change and in what order. For interviews, we rehearse the formats UK panels actually use — structured stations, clinical scenarios, ethics and prioritisation questions, and motivation questions — and score your answers against the real descriptors so the feedback is concrete rather than impressionistic.
How the review runs
A clear path from draft to offer
- Target the post. We start from the person specification and scoring framework for the exact role or training programme you are applying to, so feedback is tied to how you will actually be marked.
- Audit your evidence. We review your CV and portfolio domain by domain, flag gaps and weak points, and prioritise the changes that will move your score the most.
- Rebuild and reframe. You revise with clear guidance; we help reframe overseas or non-standard experience into the language UK selectors recognise.
- Rehearse the interview. A realistic mock interview in your panel's format, scored against the descriptors, with targeted feedback on content, structure and delivery.
- Final polish. A last pass before submission or the real interview to confirm nothing scoreable has been left on the table.
Who we help
Right for every stage of your application
Specialty training applicants
Portfolio and interview preparation aligned to the self-assessment and scoring used in your round.
International medical graduates
Reframing overseas experience and rehearsing UK interview formats — see our wider IMG support and workforce services.
Doctors changing direction
Repositioning a CV for a new specialty, NHS role or non-training post with a focused, honest narrative.
Application support sits alongside the rest of our programme. Many candidates pair it with one-to-one tutoring or, where an exam stands between them and the post, with UKMLA, PLAB and membership preparation.
Answers
Frequently asked questions
How fast is the CV review?
We offer a 48-hour structured review tier for CVs and portfolios, with clear, prioritised feedback you can action immediately.
Do you do mock interviews?
Yes — realistic mock interviews for specialty training and NHS roles, with scoring against the actual selection criteria and targeted feedback.
Can you help build a portfolio from scratch?
Yes. We map the evidence and domains your application needs and help you build a portfolio that demonstrates them.
Is this suitable for international medical graduates?
Very much so. IMGs often have strong clinical experience that is poorly translated into UK application language. We help you reframe overseas training, audits and teaching so that selectors recognise their value against the published person specification, and we rehearse the interview formats used in UK recruitment.
Do you help with the portfolio for ARCP and specialty applications?
Yes. We map the domains a given application or ARCP review expects — clinical experience, quality improvement, teaching, leadership and reflection — and help you gather and present evidence for each, so gaps are identified early enough to be filled.