hi it's Linda rer of linda.com career
strategist speaker and coach and in this
video I'm going to help you to
understand four reasons why you may be
failing at interviews and what to do
about it so that you can turn it around
and start nailing those interviews and
Landing more job offers reason number
one you're lowering yourself in the
presence of the employer what I mean by
this is there's a good chance that you
may be lowering yourself energetically
when you're put in an interview
situation
so you may be putting the employer above
you almost on a pedestal and you see
yourself as the lowly job applicant what
this does psychologically is in the eyes
of the employer they see you as almost
less valuable Because deep down you see
yourself that way essentially you're not
showing very much confidence and
confidence is the number one thing that
you need to be successful in a job hunt
so to turn this around you need to
change the way you see yourself at the
end of the day we're all the same we're
all human beings so here's a technique
that I call the consultant approach so
while you're preparing for the interview
instead of seeing yourself as any other
job applicant see yourself instead as a
consultant who's going into a meeting
with a potential client when a
consultant goes into a meeting they
don't see themselves as any less than
the person that's sitting in front of
them instead they see themselves as
someone who has value to give has
Knowledge and Skills that this position
this company needs when you can see
yourself from that perspective instead
of someone who's coming in and hoping
for a job and instead someone who has a
certain set of Knowledge and Skills and
qualifications that can help this
company out then the way that you'll act
the things that you'll say and how
you'll be in the interview will be quite
different from the perspective of just
being a job applicant reason number two
you think they control you so this ties
in with reason number one that your
lower yourself in the presence of the
employers but essentially many people
think that because the employers are
asking the questions that they control
you but that's actually quite the
opposite what you say and how you say
determines exactly how they react and
how they feel about you because you're
the one feeding them the answers they
have nothing else to evaluate on other
than the answers that you provide them
with so if you answer their questions in
a way that's conf confident engaging
relevant and tactful then they'll also
see you as that way they'll see you as a
highquality candidate remember you
control how they react by how you react
to their questions if you can remember
that you'll go along way reason number
three you're not telling them why you're
a good fit every chance you get a lot of
people think that when they're being
asked an interview question that they're
supposed to just answer that question
directly and leave it at that but that's
not the case you have to also tie it in
to why you're a good fit for this
position even if they don't really
directly ask you that you have to add
that on to your answer every answer that
you give so when answering interview
questions there's usually two parts part
one is the actual answer to the question
that they've asked you and then part two
is why you're a good fit for that role
what makes you a good fit for this
position a lot of people miss out on
part two without selling yourself every
chance you get you're missing out on
perfect opportunities to really feed the
employer with more and more reasons why
you're the perfect one and only fit for
this position so always remember when
you think that you're done answering an
interview question ask yourself quickly
wait did I also mention why I'm a good
fit for this role based on the answer I
just gave if you hadn't done that then
right away you have to add that on and
if you did then perfect and finally
reason number four your technically not
a fit there are some instances where
certain employers will put up job
descriptions that have duties that have
no relevance to the actual job itself
and that's just simply because they
didn't take the time to revise the job
description in that situation there's
really nothing you can do about it it's
beyond your control and you know not
your fault at all on the other hand
there are instances where a lot of
people apply for jobs that they may only
have 20 or 30% experience in doing and
the rest of the duties they've never
touched before for and if somehow you're
able to land an interview with those
types of jobs and you show up and they
find out that you really don't have the
technical expertise then you're really
just wasting your own time and their
time so try to avoid those instances and
really just apply for the jobs that
really make sense for you at this point
in time there you have it four reasons
for why you may be failing at job
interviews and strategies to turn it
around so that you can pass your
interviews with flying color and
hopefully land more job offers if you
haven't already then feel free to
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