and I will tell you now if you're going into a presentation an interview anything already
thinking you're gonna suck at it you're gonna suck i'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news but
you're very likely gonna suck hello and welcome to another video on my channel my name is Busi and
today I am talking about interview and audition tips that are not very widely spoken about
I do have a playlist in the career corner on the channel that you can check out to see
other tips that i've given on interviews today i'm gonna be giving you five tips of things that you
can do to help yourself perform even better when you're going for a job interview or an audition
now i have almost 10 years of work experience in corporate working in tech and I've also been
the host of a talk show here in Canada which I auditioned for and i've worked for four different
companies since moving to Canada in 2019 so I've gone through a number of interview experiences and
that's where i'm drawing a lot of the tips that I'm going to be giving you on things that I've
tried that have worked that I've seen other people try and it's worked for them as well so tip number
one is getting yourself in a positive mood just before your interview make sure you you've moved
you're moving you've smiled like and I mean if you're going to be in a public area you might want
to maybe excuse yourself and go to the bathroom just before your actual interview and just smile
like an idiot in the bathroom it does wonders for how you present yourself and how you speak when
you do get to that point where you're speaking to your interviewers get in a superman or superwoman
pose as well you can do this in the bathroom if you're interviewing virtually and you're at home
it's a lot easier but getting into positions and poses that make you feel more confident so don't
close yourself up don't sit in positions where you're closed off and it just makes your body
language very negative and you're gonna seem like you're very down and kind of doubtful of yourself
but open yourself up sit up straight just before your interview a few minutes before if you can
find a place where you can like smile get yourself in a very positive space stand up straight
superman pose you can even do it with your arms up like this but it's very important to just get
yourself in a very happy and positive mood before you actually start your interview number two
is dress to feel confident dress to feel good and don't over complicate what you're wearing
so study how the company organization is how how's the culture how do people normally dress
and if you work in tech you might be in a position or you're interviewing for a position that doesn't
really require you to be super formal every single day and the people that should be working with are
not people who are dressed in a super formal way you still want to dress as though you're going to
be interviewed but not be overly formal if it doesn't make sense for the role but number one
is you want to be comfortable and wear something that you don't have to be conscious of something
with so for example you might have a blouse or a shirt or a top that when you wear
you have to constantly check if something is still in order so you don't want to weigh something
like that you want to wear a top that you know regardless of how upset how I've moved it's going
to be in the same way it's gonna show in the same way I'm not gonna have to think about
hiding something or closing something off don't over complicate what you're gonna wear because
it's gonna take your attention and focus away from the things that you actually should be focusing on
which is the interview and the conversation that you're about to go into number three is
helping yourself have less nerves when it comes to actually going through the interview process
one of the things that has helped me a lot over the years is telling myself that I'm going into
this interview and I have a lot of things that I know I have experience I have skills and I'm going
to portray myself in a way that shows off these skills and experiences and there might be things
that i don't know and that is okay I'm somebody who is willing to learn i am open to learning
and you can confidently say if a question comes up on something you haven't had experience on that
you haven't had experience in that but you're open to learn eager to learn and take things from there
and one of the bigger things that has helped me have less nerves when going into an interview
is knowing that as much as the people who are going to be interviewing me are trying to see
whether I'm a good fit for the company or not or not I'm also trying to see whether this company
is a company I want to work for other people that i'm interviewing with people I want to work with
that takes away the stress of thinking about just impressing these other people but you're
also thinking I have to ask questions that help me understand whether this is an environment that i
want to spend a big chunk of my time in and that takes away a lot of the nerves for me like it
it just helps me refocus and think about things in a different way that I will not
portray myself in the best way number one so they get to see what i have to offer in its fullest
capacity but I'm also trying to see whether this company is worthy of having me be a part of it
so that's one way that you can look at things and go in there with that thought and depending
on where you are in your journey of looking for work I can totally understand I've been
in a position when I was fresh out of university I really didn't quite care much at the time about
figuring out whether a company is a company I wanted to work for or not I just wanted a
job i just wanted to get my foot in that first company and I will figure things out from there
so I have been in a position where that was not one of my biggest things and I do think I also
had a lot more nerves back then than I do now when going into an interview process just because I
approach them in a very different way than I used to back then number four is going into
that interview already believing that job is yours it's a done deal this interview is
a step that I have to go through in actually solidifying and getting this job that I have
going in with that mindset is gonna help you perform a lot better in your interview because
you're not now stressing and thinking about things that you shouldn't be putting your focus on
your main focus is just making sure that you're portraying yourself in the best way that you can
you're speaking through your skills and experience in a way that really helps you
shine and helps the interviewers see how you are a best fit or a good fit for this role that
you're applying for and the fact that you have this interview means you literally have a shot
and now it's you competing with whoever else is interviewing that you might not even know and
these small things that are not really as much in the forefront of the interview experience like how
you answer the questions or the questions you ask when you're being interviewed but just how you're
showing up and how you're presenting yourself as you are in that interview and number five
and this is also very important is to not speak negatively about yourself I cannot tell you how
many times I've been in spaces where I'm going for an interview there's other people coming for an
interview it might be a different interview to the one that I'm going for at the same company
and there's a time where it was for one interview we were all going through an entire day like this
was fresh out of university but we were going through an entire day of assessments tests
interviews presentations and all of the things for them to hire two people out of the people who were
in that group and there were so many people who had very very negative self-talk about things
they didn't know things they didn't feel like they were very well prepared for things that they were
super nervous about and just very negative things about what they didn't know what they
think they're gonna do terribly in and I will tell you now if you're going into a presentation an
interview anything already thinking you're gonna suck at it you're gonna suck I'm sorry to be the
bearer of bad news but you're very likely gonna suck so it's very important that you
do not start yourself with negative self-talk on any level speak about and focus on the things that
you know you can do very well the things that are your strengths and then whatever else might
be something you're not that strong on you're not making that be at the forefront of you presenting
yourself if you don't trust yourself and your own capabilities how is anybody else going to do that
think positively speak positively about yourself and go and do the things now let me know in the
comments section if there's any tip that I gave that resonates with you something that you've
personally tried or something I didn't mention that might help somebody who's watching this video
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