Jennifer T.: Hey, job seekers Jennifer Tardy here, your career success coach.
In today's video, I'm gonna show you exactly how to show confidence while you're interviewing.
I know that that can seem difficult to do, especially when you're nervous.
But trust me, stick around and you were going to learn exactly what you need to do.
Plus, we always have the career success bonus tip for underrepresented populations, and
you don't want to miss that.
Come check us out.
Have you ever just been tremendously excited about the callback to come in for an interview?
Then before you could even enjoy your excitement about being called in for an in-person interview,
it was overshadowed by nervousness?
Overshadowed and that nervousness is making you feel like you can't be confident, when
you go into the interview?
So many people, so many of my clients I have felt that way.
Which is why I have this video, but I also have another video that I want you to check
out.
It's How to Let Go of Interview Nervousness.
So make sure that you check out that video, but do that after you watch this video.
So I have a few tips that I want to share with you, let's jump right in.
Tip number one, be engaged during your interview.
Being engaged means to make eye contact, to be present during your interview.
Presence in and of itself creates confidence, because you're not thinking about the past,
you're not thinking about the future, you're just in this moment.
Make sure that you sit up straight during the interview, your nonverbals indicate confidence
as well too.
Another part of engagement is kind of leaning in.
But I have a whole video on how to show engagement during an interview.
This is just one aspect of being confident.
But check out that video to learn how to show engagement during an interview.
So remember, tip one is to show engagement.
Engagement leads an interviewer into seeing your confidence.
Let's go to tip two.
Tip number two, in order to display confidence within an interview, you have to remember
your value and share your value to the interviewer.
Remembering your value is knowing that you have the knowledge, skills, and abilities
to get this job.
Otherwise, you would not have made it to this in-person interview to begin with, so remember
that you are valuable and that you are competitive, but also display that to the hiring manager.
In order to display your value to the hiring manager, you must know what the hiring manager
perceives as value added.
In order for you to get that information, you have to ask the right questions.
So asking the right questions, how do you do that?
There's a video for that as well, too.
So, this video over here is Four Amazing Questions That You Can Ask an Interviewer That Will
Knock Their Socks Off.
By you being able to ask those questions, that's a pretty brave thing to do.
It makes you appear what?
More confident.
Got It.
Let's move on to the next tip.
Wait, before we move on to the next tip, let me ask you a question.
How do you show your value doing an interview?
I'm interested in knowing.
So leave me a message in the comment section below, and tell me all about how you show
your own value during the interviewing process.
Okay, so let's move on to tip three.
Tip number three, it's a simple one, yet an extremely impactful one.
Relax and breathe.
Oftentimes while we're in the interviewing process, it's almost like we blink out.
I don't even know if that's a real statement, but we blink out.
We forget to think, and we forget to breathe and then we're just saying stuff.
Oftentimes it's not what we really mean to say, it wasn't our intention to say it in
that way.
But if we can just breathe, and breathing helps to regulate your nerves, and if we breathe
then we're more relaxed.
Then we're able to answer questions more concisely, and in a more articulate way.
Okay, so that's tip number three.
I hope that you liked that tip.
My next question for you.
How do you know when you are dancing on the borderline of being absolutely too relaxed
during the interview?
What are some telltale signs, and have you heard any stories of other people who've been
way to relaxed?
You know I have, but I don't have a video for that.
So, I want to know in the comments section.
Tell me some stories about being too relaxed, and what that can do to you during the interviewing
process.
As promised, we are at my favorite section, the career success bonus tip for underrepresented
populations.
This is one that I share often, and I will continue to share often.
In order to show confidence, one of the first most valuable, nonverbal things that you can
do to show confidence is make eye contact.
Eye contact is an extremely serious confidence booster.
Now, if you're uncomfortable with making eye contact, there's a video for that.
Of course, there's a video for that.
I want to make sure that you check out that video too, because it shows you a neat tip
or trick on how to make eye contact if you're not comfortable doing that.
And that shows confidence.
The reason why I'll put it here, is because oftentimes many of my clients who happen to
be people of color, who happens to also be women, all share with me their level of discomfort
in making eye contact.
Sometimes it's because the way we were raised, to don't stare at that person.
Or, "Why are you over here looking at me?"
We're raised to not make engaged eye contact.
So, now as adults who when we're in places where we need to, it's a lot harder to do
it.
But knowing that making eye contact makes you appear more confident, is a really important
thing to do.
So check out that video when you get a moment.
So now that you've gotten these tips, let me recap them once more just to make sure
that you've got them.
Number one, show engagement.
Number two, show your value.
Number three, relax and breathe.
Okay?
And you even had the career success bonus tip.
So I have another special gift for you as well, too.
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I hope that if you like this video, subscribe to this channel, that's really important.
As always, in order for us to be underrepresented no more, we must listen, engage, apply, repeat
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I hope you that you enjoyed this, Jennifer Tardy, your career success coach.
I will see you in the next video Take care.