Bill Cole, MS, MA is a nationally-recognized media personality and interview coach and the author of 17 books on interview skills, including the well-selling book, The Interview Success Guide and the book Interview Mistakes You Don't Even Know You're Making.

Bill is regularly interviewed by the media on interviewing, job hunt and career strategies by such career outlets as Monster.com, LEADx.org, Riley Guide Careers Blog, Business Insider magazine, Dice magazine, SimplyHired.com and Yahoo Style Magazine.

Bill is an expert at coaching people on how to shine in media and business interviews. He developed this skill set over decades of being involved with the media—on the inside—and on the outside. Countless times, Bill has either been interviewed by the media himself and/or coached people to give successful interviews with them. You no doubt recognize these big media outlets where Bill's work has appeared, and/or where he has helped his clients get press attention:

MSNBC.com, Golf Magazine, the BBC, ABC-TV, Fox News, the Associated Press Radio, Sirius Radio, The New York Times, Success Magazine, The Washington Post, Corporate & Incentive Travel magazine, The San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle, Yahoo! Sports, ABC-TV, Entrepreneur Magazine, The San Jose Mercury News, The Denver Post, The Detroit News, The Buffalo News, The Kansas City Star, Tennis Magazine, Runner's World, Fitness Magazine, Presentations Magazine, Professionally Speaking, Time Magazine, the Los Angeles Times and USA Today. There are many others.

For years, Bill has improved thousands of people's interview skills to help them advance in their careers, enter professional, graduate and medical schools and shine in media interviews on TV and radio.

Bill has trained people in better interview and career-strategies in high tech, the executive suite, engineering, sales, finance, consulting, customer service, education, politics, government, medical school, osteopathic school, dental school, pharmacy school, chiropractic school, physical therapy school, nursing school, and all other allied health care field interviews. He has taught people state of the art interviewing skills to foreign dentists and physicians wishing to begin US practices, physicians seeking residency programs and fellowships, psychiatrists, psychologists, MFT's, LCSW's, therapists, counselors, police, law enforcement, civil service, and law firms.

There is a counseling and career coaching perspective to Bill's work as an interview coach that few other interview coaches possess. He was a psychotherapist at one time and holds a master's degree in Counseling Psychology. Bill regularly helps his clients "figure out who they are" and what their values, goals and dreams are so they can portray themselves authentically in their interviews and match themselves precisely to the position or school they are seeking.

"Bill Cole is a leading Olympic sports psychologist and a world-renowned peak performance coach." British Broadcasting Corporation (The BBC)

"Bill Cole is a world-leading authority on sports psychology." New Idea Magazine, Coleman-Rayner, LLC

"Bill Cole is a leading author on sports psychology." Yahoo! Sports

"Bill Cole is a renowned sports psychologist and 'mental game coach' who helps athletes cope with the demands of intense competition." CNET Magazine