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So in this video, I'm going to be sharing five tips that will help you during your nursing school virtual interview.
The tips in this video do not negate the need for you guys to practice,
to read the relevant documents.
The first thing that I want to share with you all, is make sure you have good
lighting. If that means making sure you turn on the lights,
if it means you placing your camera or your laptop or your
computer in front of a window, then make sure you definitely do that.
Think about it.
I feel like the principles of a good virtual interview can also be,
are very similar to principles of a good YouTube video.
Just imagine if this video, if it was super dark,
if you could barely see my face and then compare that to a video where it's
like, where you can see my face, where you can see my hand gestures,
It doesn't really, like I said, improve the content of what you're saying,
but it will work in your favor.
The second tip that I want to share with you is making sure that you have a
clear background. And when I say a clear background, I don't mean completely plain.
I don't mean a white wall with nothing on it.
A background like this would be perfect.
A background like this would be perfect. A background,
literally like this would be perfect. When I say I have a clear background,
I just mean have a background that is not distracting.
You don't want to be in your zoom interview.
And then you've got like kids running around in the background,
or you've got your dog, you know, barking at the window in your background.
You don't want a background that is going to be too busy because you want the
person who is interviewing you to be focusing on what you were doing, and what
you were saying. Clear background doesn't mean completely plain.
It just means a background that is free from major distraction. Say,
for example, if in your, in your house somewhere,
you have a poster and that poster is potentially very inappropriate.
You don't want to have the poster as your background. And other thing,
let's just say,
if you're going through like a whole bunch of letters and you've got some
confidential information that you don't want to share,
then make sure that that is not in the background of your zoom interview.
Another tip.
I know that this will be very hard to achieve for some people, just because of,
you know, the environment that we're in right now,
but try and find a quiet environment. If that means, you know,
locking yourself in a room, make sure you've got another exit point.
But if that means, you know, locking yourself in a room, then do that.
But try and find a quiet environment. Like I said,
this can be very hard because you know, government guidelines.
We are all being told to stay at home that also includes noisy family
members. If you know,
it can not be helped, if you know that during your interview
that there will be noise, then right at the start of the interview, just say,
hello. I just want to mention that, um,
there will be some noise in the background I am in. I am in this house of X, Y,
and Z. I'm not the only person in this property.
I tried my best to try and find a quiet environment,
but this is as quiet as it's going to get, and best believe the person whose
interview is gonna be like, okay, fine, thanks for letting me know.
This is really important. If you've got any pets,
if you live in some sort of like shared housing and people are not really considerate.
If you've got any kids,
if you've got like any building work going on at the moment Like yesterday,
there were building works. Like it was so loud. I thought they were in my house.
And if I had to have my zoom interview that day,
there was no room in this house that I could have gone to that, you know,
you would not have heard what they were doing.
So if I had my zoom interview yesterday, I would have just said to them,
I'm really, really sorry,
but they're a building work's going on right outside my house.
This is the quietest room that I can find. You know,
I really hope that it isn't too distracting. And if you know,
it is going to be very noisy, then try and, you know,
project your voice and try and talk louder.
Going back to my previous tip where I said, make sure you have a clear view.
Also make sure you have a clear view of yourself. Don't have the camera.
So close, where all they can see is your face.
But it isn't necessary.
I recommend having a camera close enough where you have your hip upwards or where
you have your chest upwards. That way, if you do talk with your hand gestures,
they can see your enthusiasm.
They can see you leaning forward and all of that stuff,
because it really will work in your favor. Think about it in real life.
If you were having your interview, that's the distance that you'd be at.
You probably have like a table in between you.
You won't be so close where you could count how big and measure,
how big their pores are.
Try and mimic the environment that you would have been in,
If you were actually invited for your interview,
or if you weren't invited to the university for your interview.
Just make sure you are on time for your zoom interview.
I recommend being at like at least five minutes early. Don't be the sort of person who
is like, Oh my zoom interview is at one o'clock, I'll just quickly log in,
you know, at 12:50, no, no, no, no, no.
Because when you want to go log in at 12:50, momentarily
you forgot your password to log in.
And then once you've logged in your batteries, your laptop, your computer says its low battery
Now you're rummaging around trying to find your, um,
you're trying to find your battery pack. Once you finally found your battery pack,
you're thinking, Oh my gosh, this is the ideal location to have my interview,
but then because your laptop or your computer is low battery, the socket,
isn't going to extend that far enough. Like guys,
I'm thinking of worst case scenario, but honestly,
make sure you are prepared and ready at least five minutes before your interview
in terms of making sure that you're logged in. But in terms of like setting up,
make sure you've set up at least half an hour before your zoom
Interview is scheduled to start.
If your zoom interview is scheduled to start at 12 o'clock,
then make sure everything is ready at 11:30 and then by
11:55, the latest make sure you've logged on.
You've clicked on any relevant links that they've told you to, um,
that they've told you to log on to. Don't leave at five minutes before,
before you start thinking oh my Gosh, where am I going to have this interview?
You know, where am I going to put my webcam on my camera or things like that?
Just don't do that because honestly it really isn't worth it.
So your camera up at 11:30, do whatever you need to do. Come back, you know, 20,
25 minutes later do your interview, smash the interview
Leave with a university place. That's all you need to do.
The final tip that I want to share with you all is make sure you do a test
run. Make sure you do a test run guys.
If you have never like legitimately or never officially,
used the webcam feature, or the camera feature on your laptop, or on your
phone or on whatever camera device that you're using.
Make sure you do a test run at least a day, make no rahh.
As soon as you found out that you've been invited for a virtual interview,
make sure you do a test run of everything, because you can have the latest Apple
Mac. You could have the latest computer, the latest, you know, laptop,
but if you've never used it, if you don't know how to use it,
it's actually completely useless.
Make sure the camera's working. Make sure the speaker is working.
and also make sure that the microphone is also working as well, and make sure
it's compatible with the, um, the program that you'll be doing it on.
For example, on my computer, I know that the microphone,
the speaker and the camera works, I know that's completely fine. However,
if I'm to log into Ms teams, Microsoft teams,
or if I'm to log on to zoom or Skype,
then I'm going to have to give you zoom or Skype and or Ms teams
the permission to use the camera, to use the microphone to the speakers.
If I don't give the software, the permission to do that beforehand,
then it isn't going to work.
So make sure you do all the relevant technical stuff. First,
I feel like that is the most important thing.
The most important tip that I've shared with you.
I hope this video was very helpful for you. Like I said,
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