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Booked personally · Rolling four-week window

Your degree is intact.
The door is not.

The hiring market has been reorganised. Roles that existed when you enrolled no longer do. The ones that remain are filtered by systems before a human reads your name. The usual guidance was written for a different moment. This conversation was not.

£299
Sixty minutes
one to one
Booked four weeks ahead
Join the waitlist when full
A graduate in cap and gown stands at the centre of a maze, viewed from above.

Clarity and
a way in.

Not a plan handed to you. A conversation that listens for what you have not yet found words for; one that follows where your situation actually leads, rather than where a framework assumes it should.

"The question is not what you want to do. It is how you become visible to the people who decide."

There is no report at the end. No checklist completed. What you leave with is a clearer sense of where your real ground is; and what it would take to stand on it.

Thirty-nine years.
Applied once.

Thirty-nine years of assessment-centre design is an uncommon thing to have direct access to at the start of a career. The rigour behind this draws on that experience across blue chip aviation and executive leadership; the same standard that informs Chilli Selection and underpins brandartisan®. Applied here, once, to you.

That experience includes assessment centre design and delivery, psychometric qualification, and early career development at the point where it matters most: the first position, in a market that has changed faster than most institutions have noticed.

Roger Williams · Chartered Fellow, CIPD
Blue chip aviation · Executive advisory · Early career development
Psychometric qualification · Assessment centre design and delivery

Before
Desk Review

Before we speak, we look. Share what feels useful. Nothing is required. Two data points are enough to begin.

Briefly describe your situation
Where you are most active online
Reviewed before the call, not during
During
The Conversation

A single call; semi-structured and unhurried. No scripts. The conversation follows you, not a template. What surfaces is yours.

Informed by the desk review
Not coaching; not consulting
A single conversation; nothing replicated
After
What Follows

For most, this stands alone. For some, capacity and fit allowing, an ongoing advisory relationship becomes possible. This is not offered openly. It is arranged privately, selectively, and without announcement.

Standalone by design
Continuation selective, not guaranteed
Ongoing advisory arranged privately

Who this
is for.

Those about to graduate, or recently graduated, who are qualified on paper and finding that it is not enough. Who sense that the rules have changed and have not yet worked out how.

It is a one-off. Those familiar with the work will recognise what that means.

Pre-graduate Post-graduate

What this
is not.

Not careers advice, coaching, or a university guidance appointment. Not a recruitment service. Not a framework delivered identically to whoever books.

Not suitable for those who are not ready to hear something unexpected.


What others say
I've relied on Roger for valuable guidance as to how I should enhance and forward my career for many years. If you want to put yourself in the best position to get the job in a company you want to work for, hire Roger.
Career guidance
LinkedIn recommendation
Roger has got the balance between guidance and facilitating just right. His consultancy background makes him a very valuable resource. He has been a positive team player making a definitive contribution that goes beyond pure academic to training and staff development.
Stephen Griffiths
MBA Programme Director
Swansea Business School
In preparation for an important presentation I contacted Roger to brush up on my technique and discover a couple of nuggets that might help win the business. The money was well spent and I would recommend his coaching to anyone looking to gain an edge and boost their confidence.
Presentation coaching
LinkedIn recommendation

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