Hey Ambitious Professionals! It's Linda Raynier of lindaraynier.com guiding you
to a career and life you'll truly enjoy. And in today's video I am going to share
with you my five tips on how to communicate with ease in your next
interview so that you can communicate with confidence and hopefully that will
help you to land your next job offer
Ready to get the job you want? Top Notch Interview is coming soon! For more info
and free training head to JOINTNI.COM Now as a career strategist I've had
the honour of being able to help numerous professionals land their dream
job offers and so if this is something that you're interested in working with
me one on one I can give you details about that at the end of this video
recently I talked about the topic of how to feel comfortable in an interview and
the mindset change that you needed to make in order to accomplish that and if
you haven't seen that video then just simply click on the link in the
description box below and you'll be led to that video now when it comes to
communicating with ease this concept goes hand-in-hand with the topic of
feeling comfortable in an interview in order to do well in an interview you
need to be able to communicate in a clear and confident way and so here are
my five tips on how to communicate with ease in your next interview tip number
one know what the employer is looking for before you even go into the
interview knowing what the employer is looking for will help you in your
communication because the two of you you and the employer will be speaking the
same language you'll be able to put the employer at ease because you're at ease
because you fully understand what they are looking for from this position from
the potential employee that they're going to hire now I know what you're
thinking you're probably thinking to yourself okay well how do I know what
the employer is looking for if they haven't even told me what they're
looking for yet well I can tell you that you definitely can learn and figure out
exactly what the employer is looking for if not everything at least the majority
of it by simply reading in between the lines of the job description so you have
to know how to read a Job Description properly and then also know how to do
research on a company learning how to properly read a job description is a key
skill that you as a job candidate needs to have in order to be able to land a
job offer that you're going to be happy with you need to understand why is the
position open what are they looking for from this
role what is the goal of this position and what type of individual do they want
now I'm not going to spend the rest of this video talking about how to read a
job description I actually have resources for you to be able to learn
that so you can check out my free webinar it's my resume mastery workshop
the link is in the description box down below click on that sign up for a time
and you can watch the webinar and learn how to read a job description otherwise
you can just simply take my top-notch resume course which has been proven time
and time again to work successfully for other job candidates other ambitious
professionals like yourself who have successfully used this approach and
landed their dream job offers the links are down below tip number two have a
treasure chest of stories ready to be picked to be able to communicate with
ease you need to have a treasure chest full metaphorically speaking not
physically but a treasure chest full of relevant stories that you are going to
bring up in the interview and these are based on experiences achievements
projects tasks duties assignments that you have performed in the past that
relate to the position that you're interviewing for and you have to be able
to demonstrate what the results were and how you can do it again for them in this
role I've talked about storytelling in other episodes so feel free to click on
my channel to look for those ones but essentially you want to make sure that
your stories follow the right structure just like in a good movie you want to
set up the situation talk about the action steps and talk about the results
that occurred tip number three is to cut your explanations down one way to
communicate with ease in an interview is to make sure that you don't allow
yourself to ramble in the interview whenever you're giving an explanation or
telling a story you want to limit the number of sentences that you speak and
be mindful and make sure that you get to the point quickly and efficiently
otherwise the interview where it may start zoning out and thinking about what
they have to get for dinner tonight tip number four show that you want to help
when you're not at ease you're nervous in an interview it's
likely because you are over analyzing yourself you are overly criticizing
yourself and you are thinking about what the other person is thinking about you
rather than thinking about how can I help him or her the person that's
sitting across the table from me how can I offer them value what can I do or say
to showcase to them that I have the right skills qualifications experience
and knowledge to be able to help them with their open pain point their open
position that they have available the pain points that they're dealing with
and the problems that they need to resolve so when you can shift your focus
away from yourself and on to the other person it'll help you to be able to
communicate with ease you'll be able to tell your stories in a more articulate
way and it helps you to be able to demonstrate to the employer your value
what you can do for them and finally tip number five is to practice in the mirror
back in the day in a past life when I had to go on job interviews this is
exactly what I used to do it's such a classic and effective technique yet I
don't understand why not too many people do it practicing in front of the mirror
helps you to put things in perspective that you're actually talking to another
face I mean in this case it happens to be your own but you're able to control
the things that you say while you're talking so you're giving yourself eye
contact and that helps you to mimic the environment of when you do go into the
interview what you need to do when it comes to giving the right eye contact
telling your stories in a compelling way and you're able to hear yourself out
loud as well so practicing in the mirror is such an effective technique I highly
recommend it definitely practice your answers ahead of time in the mirror
before you go into any interview so there you have it those are my five tips
on how to communicate with ease in the interview now if you're someone who has
been going on job interviews you've been applying for positions you haven't been
getting many results and you realize that you need one-on-one professional
help from me then feel free to reach out to my website lindaraynier.com/standoutgethired
fill in the application form and from there if it seems that you and
I are a potential match to working together then one of my team members
will be reaching out to you directly if you liked this video then please give it
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I will see you in the next video. Ready to get the job you want? Top Notch
Interview is coming soon! For more info and free training head to JOINTNI.COM