The method, on paper, for the price of lunch.

• 150 practice questions across the five ILS clusters: 100 for APS4 to APS6, and 50 written for EL1 and EL2, because that is not the same interview
• Under every question, what the panel is actually marking, which is rarely what the question appears to ask
• Calibrated to your level: what a strong answer sounds like at APS4-5 and APS6, and what your example has to have been to qualify at EL
• A probe on all 150: the follow-up your answer invites, so you find the hole before a panel does
• Fully worked answers with line-by-line notes on why they score
• How long an answer should run, and the seven traps that sink good candidates
• How the interview actually runs: prep time, speaking points, the closing question
• The level guide: reading your line of the ILS, and the one above it
• Print-ready PDF, 65 pages, no filler

Nobody else in Australia maps interview practice to the ILS clusters at level. Others sell longer question lists; none of them tell you what the panel is marking, or what your answer has to sound like at the level you applied for. That is the whole document.

Built on the Commission's own capability names for every cluster, at every level, with our plain-language summary of what each one looks like.

• The case for the APS, argued with sourced numbers: super, pay, leave and security against the private market
• Reading the job pack as the exam paper, and the five myths that cost people the job
• The written application taught properly: pitch, criteria responses and the APS resume, with three worked examples scored on a real 1-to-5 scale
• A real agency marking sheet, set out in full: the scale, the gate score, and which criterion was marked at which stage
• What happens after you submit: the pipeline, merit pools, clearances, feedback and review
• Ten interview questions with three answers worked line by line, 28 straight-answer FAQs, a government structure explainer and an acronym glossary

Application guides in this market sell for up to $50 and cover a slice of the path each. This one is priced at the bottom of that market and covers the path end to end.

Under the Treasury Enterprise Agreement, one pay-point increment is worth between about $4,300 and $10,800 a year before super. If the handbook brings the offer even a few months sooner, it has covered its price many times over.

When the handbook is updated, the new edition is emailed to every past buyer, free. And what you paid for it comes off the writing service if you later hand the work to us.

Written by professional application writers from the documents panels actually mark against. Every statistic carries its source, listed at the back and rechecked.

• The translation at your rank: three worked examples, Corporal to Flight Lieutenant
• Six destinations compared honestly, including who tends to find each one a poor fit
• One service record written three ways: APS, corporate, defence industry
• The clearance question answered plainly, and the questions people are too proud to ask

Written by people who made this transition themselves. Defence's free support is named first, and this pack does the part it cannot: your applications.

• The only structure you need
• One finished example resume, every decision numbered
• The verb, scope, consequence formula with three before and after rewrites
• The top-third test and the eight filter rules
• What to delete today, with the reason for each

Six pages on purpose. Guides that get finished are the ones that work.

• The three-paragraph spine, and the ten-minute retarget for every new ad
• Six openers dissected: three that die, three that live, and why
• Two finished letters annotated line by line, one civilian, one ex-Army
• When a letter is wanted, and when it is only tolerated

A letter travels with a resume. This is the shortest guide in the range because a letter should be the shortest thing you write.

• 50 leading prompts across scope, improvement, trust, difficulty, recognition and the ones people always forget
• Where to start, matched to six situations, so nobody answers fifty cold
• Six real answers converted into resume lines, and six dead lines revived

This is our paid interview process, handed over as a worksheet.