About Us

Interview Skills is a leading provider of interview skills coaching to many Organisations and Individuals in New Zealand with a high success rate. Our focus is in providing an affordable quality service with a personal touch. We work hard with our clients to ensure that they are successful in whatever they want to achieve. Our personal approach and excellent results means that our services come highly recommended. We have a young dynamic team with many years´ experience in communication & interview skills coaching both at personal and corporate levels.

We have an in–depth and hands–on knowledge of interviews both from the interviewer´s perspective and the interviewee´s perspective, across all main sectors. This enables us to provide a quality service suited to all your requirements.

Interview Skills was founded by ex-Detective Jonathan Davison, who has over 12 years Investigation and Interview experience as a Detective with Greater Manchester Police and the New Zealand Police. In his last role with Greater Manchester Police he was an Advanced Specialist Interviewer and a qualified trainer in the field of Interviewing.

To be eligible for this role as a Trainer the essential skills required included being a Tier 3 Specialist. In Greater Manchester Police, a Police Force with over 8000 officers, there are approximately 100 Specialists, which gives you an idea of Jonathan´s skills as an investigator and interviewer. The role of a Tier 3 involves the ability to communicate and investigate to the highest level. Once a qualified Trainer in Greater Manchester Police, Jonathan became 1 of 8 trainers delivering interview training to the entire force of over 8000 officers.

Quality Interview training requires an experienced Quality Interviewer. To be a quality Interviewer Jonathan has many years of practical and theoretical experience involving:

  • Understand the science supporting the techniques within both the Witness and Suspect Models
  • Achieved excellent results interviewing “serious and series” criminal offending by applying the techniques
  • Become a trained facilitator to provide opportunities for students to experiment and develop confidence
  • Been assessed according to rigorous criteria
  • Received regular and comprehensive feedback
  • Member of the International Investigative Interviewing Research Group
  • Successfully passed and trained officers at a Tier 1 Level – 16 day course, Tier 2 Level – 8 day course and Tier 3 Level – 15 day course

Jonathan has also successfully completed National Vocational Qualifications with the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) as part of the Police Training Roles Learning and Development Programme in the following areas:

  • Evaluate and develop own practice
  • Enabling Learning in Practice
  • Assessing Learning
  • Advanced Delivery Skills
  • Evaluating Learning
  • Coaching, Mentoring, Demonstration and Instruction
  • Core Skills and Values
  • Enable Learning through presentations
  • Enable group learning
  • Develop training sessions
  • Prepare and develop resources to support learning
  • Create a climate that promotes learning
 Jonathan Davison