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Hi I'm GG.
And I am the Amazon interview Whizz.
I was a senior leader and bar raiser at Amazon.
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So we're going to talk about how you deal with nerves when it
comes to your Amazon interview.
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Okay.
So dealing with nerves.
I have four big tips based on the thousands of hours that I
spent interviewing for Amazon.
And of course in my life before Amazon, there was in fact life before Amazon.
Crazy as it may seem, and also of course my own experiences
of interviewing as a candidate.
I am the type of person who does actually get very nervous and actually I'm the type
of person that physically shakes when the adrenaline starts to pump through my body.
So I really, really genuinely understand how this works.
So these are my four big tips.
My first tip is about practice and actually it's a part one and a part
two, which makes up two of the four.
Practice.
And this is something I'm going to tell you that is probably gonna make me pretty
unpopular with a lot of companies, a lot of hiring managers and a lot of interview
coaches, but I know this works for me.
So this is why I'm sharing it with you.
My tip is go for interviews for jobs that actually, if you don't get, you're
not actually going to be heartbroken because it gives you just real life
experience and practice of interviewing.
Your, your psyche.
will, will learn that, you know, actually sometimes it's quite enjoyable and
you don't need to be terrified of it.
And of course, when you make mistakes, particularly if you're also a bit
rusty, if you haven't interviewed for a long time, which many people don't
,then anything that you've done wrong, you can go and look at my video about
feedback, where you can see how I suggest you gather feedback for yourself
when you come out of an interview.
But if you do that, you can then diagnose any of the mistakes that
you made any of the things that you wish you'd done differently.
And so that the next time you do a practice real
interview, you'll get better.
And then the time after that you do a practice real interview, you get better.
So that's my first tip, unpopular as it may be with companies and hiring managers
and interview coaches, it definitely works from a candidate point of view.
It's actually a key strategy.
I employ.
I hope no one interviewing me in the future looks at this
YouTube video and sees this.
But here's my honesty for you hope it doesn't backfire on me.
Okay.
So that's my first tip.
My second tip is still about practice, but it's about Mocks.
So sometimes you just can't get the first type of practice and maybe
you don't even have time to get the first type of practice because
your Amazon interview is coming up really soon and you didn't get much
notification for when it was going to be.
So the second one then is about practice through mock interviews.
It's not going to be as real in terms of the simulation, but if you do plenty
of practice mock interviews, and it doesn't need to be with someone who
understands Amazon necessarily, it doesn't even need to be someone who Amazon who
understands the leadership principles.
Although, you know, if you're, if you're going to free coaching sessions, you might
be able to spot people that you can then ping offline and ask to link up with you.
But it can just be people who just do interviews regularly
and just practice with those.
And it will just get you into the flow of question and answer.
It will get you into the habit of situation, task, action, results and it
will just seem less unfamiliar when you actually go into your real interview,
the one that you really, really want.
So that's number two.
Number three is about taking in tools that will give you some
comfort that you can rely on them to help you in the interview process.
Now, the tools that I think of when I imagine doing that
is firstly, a practice of.
Always writing down the interview question.
That's another video of mine, but that's really, really helpful because your brain
isn't constantly panicking, thinking, am I still answering the question?
Am I on the right track?
Because you'll have written it down.
The second tool that I talk about, is taking very brief high level
notes into the interview with you.
Now they have to be brief and they have to be high level.
And again, I have another video all about that.
But if you have those type of tools, safety nets, if you like the parts
of your brain that would usually be spending energy thinking and panicking
about those things can rest easy.
It knows you've got some tools prepared, so that it doesn't need to worry about
it, so that frees up the cognitive load for you to really actually focus on
delivering your Amazon interview answer.
Now number four, is a brave one, but I really, really recommend it.
And I recommend it as an interviewer, having experienced
this from a number of candidates.
And here's the tip, which is fess up.
Tell your interviewer that you are particularly nervous, not necessarily
because you want sympathy and you want them to go easy on you, but more that
once you get it off your chest, again, your brain is not going to be putting
a load of cognitive energy into trying to pretend, that you're not nervous.
I'm sure.
You'll know if you're a nervous person, you'll be sitting in an
interview and you'll be thinking, oh, stop shaking, GG, stop shaking.
Don't lift that glass because they'll see that you're shaking.
Oh my God.
That happens to me so much.
I take in a bottle actually.
So I don't spill anything.
Little tips like that, right.
But if you admit that you're anxious in the ways that I would have done,
when someone saw me picking up a bottle of water and it's shaking,
they'll know it's not because I have some terrible kind of shaky disease,
which maybe I do, but nonetheless they'll know it's because I'm anxious.
So it helps them understand certain behaviors that you'll demonstrate in your
interview and put them into the context of you just being that nervous person.
And of course, I, then you, then won't have to worry about trying to
suppress those physical demonstrations of your anxiety because, you know
that they know, and again, your brain can free up that cognitive load that
it's investing and trying to suppress those behaviors and focus it all on
answering your Amazon interview question.
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