Interview Skills for ‘Hire Me' Impact!
with Carmen Payne
Interviews shouldn’t feel intimidating—they should feel empowering.
In this interactive talk, professionals navigating career transitions will learn how to show up with confidence, answer interview questions with clarity, and communicate their value in a way that makes hiring managers say “we need this person.”
You’ll gain practical, immediately usable tools to overcome interview anxiety, handle awkward or tricky questions with ease, and deliver authentic, memorable answers with impact. Attendees walk away knowing how to position themselves as the obvious “hire me” choice—without sounding scripted or rehearsed—while increasing both their confidence and chances of getting hired.
Carmen Payne is the owner of SOAR! Transformational Life Coaching and is a professional and personal development coach with 25 years’ experience in the areas of leadership, coaching, mentoring, training, and project management. Prior to making the leap from her 25-year corporate career, Carmen traveled the world, and facilitated workshops, even as she developed, tested, trained, and partnered with fortune 500 companies to deploy integrated IT solutions.
Carmen obtained her ICF accredited coaching certifications at the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts and with the Quantum Success Coaching Academy. Carmen also holds certifications in Neuro Linguistics Programing and Time Line Therapy® and is a certified Add Heart facilitator.
Her services include personalized coaching, workshops, consulting and speaking.
Carmen’s origins are from the beautiful island of Malta and she grew up in the UK before moving to the USA over a decade ago and currently resides in Phoenix, AZ.
Second Speaker: Stephanie Clerge (VP of People at Kolbe Corp)
Start With Strengths - Your Best Path to Career Success
When looking for your next role, you’ll hear plenty of advice about resumes, networking and platforms like LinkedIn. But there is one voice that should guide every decision in your job search: your strengths.
Join Stephanie Clergé to discover what truly defines a strength, why understanding how you naturally take action matters just as much as what you know, and how your instinctive strengths can help you navigate today’s job search, including how you approach networking and your LinkedIn presence.
As part of Kolbe Strengths Week, Kolbe Corp is providing a free Kolbe A™ Index for each attendee to help identify your instinctive strengths, your natural way of making decisions and solving problems.
Stephanie Clergé is VP of People at Kolbe Corp, an HR Consulting firm specializing in assessments and engaging workshops that increase individual and team performance.
Stephanie holds an Industrial Engineering degree from Stanford University and an MBA from Babson College with a focus on corporate entrepreneurship.
She completed a Coaching Certification from the Hudson Institute of Coaching, spent nearly 15 years managing teams and developing leaders at Intel corporation and had her own coaching and training firm for several years. Stephanie is also a native of Phoenix, Arizona and enjoys spending time with her husband and two kids.