hey everybody don georgevich here with
the job interview tools a recent study
shows that four out of five job seekers
have reported being nervous before an
interview well in this video i am going
to teach you how to be less nervous and
more confident so that employers get to
see the real you and i'm simply going to
walk you through seven little exercises
that are going to make you feel better
about yourself and less nervous these
are the same exercises that i used
myself when i interviewed for jobs and i
always felt good i always felt
comfortable and i felt confident when i
was sitting on the other side of the
desk and interviewing for a job and i
know you will too
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so what is
nervousness and why do we feel nervous i
mean
i think that nervousness is your friend
it's your way it's your brain's way of
telling you that hey
you need to get prepared i mean if you
don't feel
a little bit of nervousness something
might be wrong but too much nervousness
gets overwhelming and then it makes us
just trip over our words and people
don't really get to see you know the
real us which is what we want them to
see in interview
now as for confidence i think confidence
is just a culmination
of all your experiences coming together
ahead to push you through an event i
mean if you don't have
any confidence in your abilities and the
things that you do
then you're probably going to doubt
yourself
when the time comes you're going to
doubt yourself in the interview
and that's what's going to make you feel
nervous so i'm going to help you push
all that stuff aside so you feel good
about yourself so the first thing that i
would always do before every interview
is i would visualize myself in the role
and that meant not not just thinking
that i have the job but i'm visualizing
like i already have it
and i see
i see what i think about the things that
i'm doing i see the places that i'm
working at i see the people that i'm
working with i see the types of projects
that i'm working on and i just see
myself in the office i see myself as
part of the culture i see myself
interacting with everybody and talking
to them and exchanging ideas
and
this allows me to be
more confident in the interview because
i already feel
like i work there i feel like these are
already these are my co-workers
now the trick the key
to visualizing is you can't just do it
once you don't want to just show up
right before the interview and then when
you're out in the parking lot in your
car or if it's a virtual interview if
you're home
you don't want to just do it right
before the interview it's conditioning
meaning you want to do it over
and over and over again so let's say for
example
you've got an interview next week and
let's just say it's with google how cool
you want to start the conditioning
process immediately you want to think
about it you may be in the morning think
about it in the afternoon
think about it before you go to bed you
want to do this every day just a little
bit
just a few minutes maybe three five
minutes
imagine yourself there working there
doing the kinds of things that you want
to be doing contributing sharing your
expertise with them you want to do this
every day and a great way to condition
is that i i personally like to do it i
would take walks i would take a walk
every day and i would just imagine
myself in the role
and your brain believe it or not doesn't
really know the difference between you
know what you put up there in reality
so if you just keep thinking over and
over and over that i have this job at
google these are the kinds of things
that i do i'm an analyst there and you
know people like me and i like them and
you keep running this pattern in your
mind over and over and over again you're
gonna start to believe it someone might
say hey you know where do you work you'd
be like oh i work at google oh wait a
minute not yet but
but you're there that's what the
conditioning does so you got to do this
every day now let's just say you know
the interviews in two days okay so you
get two days of conditioning time
but you want to do it over and over and
it's repetition and that conditioning is
going to build itself into your nervous
system so that when you sit down for
your big day you're going to feel good
you're going to feel like you already
worked there all right moving on to
number two
you have to prepare your answers you
have to think about the kinds of things
that you're going to say you want to be
prepared for some of the more common
questions like tell me about yourself
why do you want to work here
what are your greatest strengths
you don't want to just answer those for
the first time or you don't want to
think
that you're so confident that you'll be
able to come up with those answers on
the spot because you're already going to
be at a slightly heightened sense of
nervousness so relying on your
subconscious mind to come up with these
answers off the cuff
is is taxing your system and that's
going to make you feel more nervous so
the one way i like to prepare my answers
is i like to get in front of a video
camera like i am right now
and i might put a picture of you know
some people in business suits or
whatever you know maybe you know a lot
not a lot of people wear business suits
anymore but you know just some
professionally dressed people put them
in front of the camera and look at them
as if they are my interview panel and i
pretend that they say you know so tell
me about yourself and then i'll just go
into my spiel about tell me about
yourself or my weaknesses or why do i
want to work here or any other questions
that i feel that i'm going to be
challenged on
and then i go back and i watch that
video clip and i see see what i look
like i see how i sound i see how long it
takes i mean if some of my answers are
three or four minutes that's way too
long
i'm aiming for answers that are 30 to 45
seconds short on point answers and i
also listen for all the ums and the ahs
and you knows as i'm as i'm rehearsing
and talking to the camera
and and i try to get that stuff out
because if i'm interviewing you know
real life with somebody i don't want to
be saying um
uh uh you know i want to be direct i
want to deliver an answer that's on
point and
the key
about practicing and rehearsing your
answers is you don't want to memorize
them i mean memorizing is actually the
lowest
form of learning
that humans have and that means that
it's practically worthless
so a better form of learning how to
prepare and learning how to speak your
answers
is to actually speak them and not just
the same way so when they ask you you
know tell me about yourself or why do
you want to work here your answer
should be slightly different each time
that means that you're assembling that
answer on the fly you're not relying on
memorization to say it exactly because
once you start relying on memorization
to say your answer is exactly if you get
tripped up for just one second
you're just gonna be like a deer in the
headlights and
you're going to be stuck you're going to
be stuck in the middle of an answer and
then you're going to you're going to
want to start over so that you know
hopefully you can plow through the whole
thing
you don't ever want to do that that
looks bad
you want to be able to come up with your
answers off the cuff they sound a little
bit different every time but the whole
theme of the answer is relatively the
same they get the same information it
just comes out a different way
that's the key to preparing your answers
all right let's move on here to number
three understand the problems that are
facing this company or the position and
the cool thing is you can usually get
that from the job description so you
want to carefully go through the job
description and don't do it while it's
on your computer screen print it out and
get some highlighters and go over it and
what i like to look for are repeating
patterns in the job description of what
they're looking for so they might say
you know that we're looking for
you know a manager and then in the next
line they might say we're looking for
leadership and then another line they
might say you know we're looking for
someone who can coach and mentor other
people all of those things are forms of
leadership
so you want to look for
all of the repeating patterns throughout
the job description that define
the role and what they're looking for
and what they're struggling with and
this is going to help you when you're in
the interview because i mean think about
it you're in a job interview to help
them
solve problems right why else would they
be hiring you so if you can go into that
interview being somewhat prepared about
the challenges that this position is
facing
and how you can be a solution to those
that is going to
really
raise your level of confidence i mean
think about it if you have some
information
that can help somebody
don't you feel excited to want to share
that you feel nervous about sharing
information that's going to help
somebody
i don't think so i don't when i know i i
have some information that is going to
benefit somebody that's going to help
them go farther that's going to solve
their problems i can't wait to share it
with them all right moving on to number
four one of the best ways to suppress
your nervousness in an interview is to
smile
when you smile
that releases so much tension in your
face
and
it instantly relaxes you and it relaxes
the people who are around you it's so
simple hardly anybody does it i mean
when we get into an interview we just
get so uptight we forget about smiling
so what i like to do when i'm in
situations like that i draw a little
smiley face on my notes
and any time i look down on it and i see
that it just makes me want to smile and
if you do if you're doing a phone
interview that's okay you can still
smile on an interview people can hear a
smile on the other end even though they
can't see you but it's going to relax
you it's going to relax them another
cool thing you can do in your interview
is twist your spine just go like this
and go like this
and when you do that that releases
spinal fluid into your brain and what
this does this is like food for your
brain this is going to make you feel
more relaxed and just like when people
come out of a yoga studio they've been
doing yoga for an hour they always feel
relaxed they feel more clear in their
thoughts you can instantly do the same
thing just with a little twist so moving
on to number five exercise an exercise
doesn't have to be running or biking
just simply be taking a walk so when i
used to interview for jobs one of the
things i always liked to do was go for a
morning run before my interview this
just
made me feel so good so comfortable so
relaxed that it i was hardly ever
nervous now it doesn't have to be a run
you could just go take a walk
just take a walk around the block or
show up to your employer maybe you know
an hour before
the interview and just walk around the
parking lot or you know maybe walk
around the streets
and
visualize yourself in the role pulling
back to step number one visualizing
yourself in the role anytime you're
walking relaxing
see yourself in the roll but just some
simple exercising another another cool
thing you can do is a little bit of
jumping now this might you know you may
not want to do this if nobody's around
but let's say you go to the job
interview and
say you're going to the bathroom first
and if nobody's in there you know just a
little bit of jumping up and down like
this you know just for 30 seconds it's
just going to shake everything out of
your body make you feel more relaxed
don't do it so hard that you're
hypoventilating when you're done but
just a little bit up and down up and
down up and down for 30 seconds gonna
make you feel so much better and kind of
push out all that nervousness that you
feel all right moving on to number six
take inventory
of what you do what are you best at
doing i mean think about it why do they
even call you for the interview
because they see something in you that
they think is going to help them so take
inventory of all of your skills your
abilities your experiences as they
relate to the position and write them
down
write them down and then look at them
and say you know what i'm really good at
this i'm really good at this i'm very
good at this and what this is going to
do is kind of build up build yourself up
before the interview because i mean a
lot of times people go into an interview
and
they already they already know what
they're doing they're like super good
but
they're still nervous that
maybe there's some areas that i'm not so
sure about or maybe there's some people
in this interview who are smarter than
me and they're they're going to call me
out on some stuff
that's kind of why people feel nervous
so
if you take inventory of the things that
you are best at doing and you know bar
none you're the best
and this is going to help you
feel better about the things that you do
i mean you're it's like hey i do this
better i do this better and i do this
better than anyone else
and you keep saying that over and over
and over again and you condition that in
your mind
and all of a sudden you're going to feel
a lot better a lot more certain
about the things that you do know and
it's going to take a lot more for
somebody to kind of you know push you
off kilter
all right moving on here to number seven
the last one educate them on what you
can do for them be an educator don't
look at it as a job interview but look
at it as an opportunity to understand
their problems and show them how you can
be a solution to them that's what a
consultant would do consultant would sit
down with a company and they would go
through and try to understand everything
the company's looking to accomplish and
they would either say hey this is
something we can help you with and
here's why and here's how or they'd say
you know what this is beyond our area of
expertise we're going to bow out of this
one
simple as that
you should do the same thing in your
interviews if you can go in there and
show them how you can do this job better
than anyone else and that you understand
it and you're sharing them sharing with
them your expertise about how you've
done these things before and here's how
you would take on these challenges in
this position you're helping them you're
giving them information that has helped
that showing
them that you understand
the challenges that they're facing and
you know how you can be a solution to
those
that's all there is to it so
seven little exercises the cool thing is
i don't think you have to do all seven
maybe maybe if you just do two or three
of these exercises that is going to
dramatically increase your confidence
and lower your nervousness now if you do
them all oh my gosh i mean you're
you're going to blow this interview out
of the water or you're going to go in
there and say you know what this isn't
for me or i can't help you with this
whatever it is but you're going to be in
a better place to make an informed
decision about whether you feel you're
the right candidate for it
or that you're not all right my friend
that is all i have for you in this video
i hope you found these seven steps
helpful they always worked for me
and
when i went into interviews i did feel a
little bit of nervousness but it was a
good nervousness it was the kind of
nervousness that was saying hey don you
know um it was an excited nervousness
it's like hey you know i think we're
doing pretty good in here make sure we
don't blow it um but
a little bit of nervousness is good but
you don't want to feel so much that
you can't speak because that's no good
because then employers they're not going
to get to know the real you and if they
think that you know the real you is
somebody who can't talk you know then
then you're not going to get the job and
maybe maybe you've been through
that before and maybe you've been on
some interviews where you went in there
and didn't work out right nervous got
the best of you they didn't and they
didn't go any farther so
those are great learning experiences to
help you understand
what you need to do the next time but i
think just applying any of these seven
steps are going to help you be a lot
better and less nervous on your
interview now before your next interview
for your next interview head on over to
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little guide it's the top 10 interview
questions and answers this is going to
walk you through how to answer some of
the more common questions
so that you'll feel more confident and
less nervous you know in your ability to
answer these because
employers are going to ask you you know
tell me about yourself why do you want
to work here
you know what are your greatest
strengths what are you looking for why
did you leave your last job those kinds
of things and you need to be prepared
for those and this little guy here that
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is going to show you you know a good way
it's going to give structure for how to
answer those um the way you answer and
the way someone at the content of your
answer is going to vary but the
structure needs to be the same and
that's what i want to teach you in here
and if you find this guide helpful if
you find this guide helpful then i want
you to try
the complete interview answer guide
because this guide has over 140
different questions in it so it's a
really detailed book and it's really
going to help you overall feel more
comfortable with the types of questions
that interviewers are going to be asking
and the more you hear and the more you
know about the questions coming at you
the more information you have
the less nervous you're going to be
because i mean nervousness is really
it's kind of like a fear of the unknown
so
if you know all the questions that are
likely to come your way
you're probably not going to be very
nervous all right my friend that is all
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interview be nervous be calm be safe
we'll see you next time