golden tip number three don't Babble what is one of your greatest strengths I'd say
it's going to be a toss-up because you know you can't split hairs here and when you get
down to the nitty-gritty you can't beat around the bush and at the end of the day I think that
I'm very reliable hello hello hello everybody Steve Ford here do you feel nervous about your
next job interview well you're not alone and I have five golden tips to help you to feel more
comfortable in your next job interview so let's go the first golden tip and this can happen to
non-native speakers it can also happen to native speakers is using um and ah too much and there's
a reason for this number one is because it can show that you lack self-confidence and number
two it can make it hard for the interviewer to understand what you're actually trying
to say for example can you tell us a bit about yourself well well um I worked for 10 years as um
a computer programmer and um hey everybody are you enjoying this English lesson if you are please
give it a like subscribe share and please leave a comment it really helps my work on YouTube so two
solutions for this and I know this from personal experience is that you want to record yourself
practice practice practice before you actually do a job interview I know a lot of people they don't
like listening to a recording of themselves but in this case it is really important and that way
you can start to hear all of the um and Oz that you're using that's the first solution the second
solution is that you can replace those um so you could say for example in fact as a matter of fact
come to think of it this next Golden tip is very important and we want to try to be not
too formal in the way we speak can you tell me something about your last job Indeed it
was of the utmost importance to have worked for such a wondrous company it was indubitably and
fundamentally a formidable career choice notwithstanding I am presently setting my
sights on shooting for the stars but at the same time we also don't want to be too casual
totally it was so cool working at such a cool company and I mean well it was sweet and well
cool hands down in both cases you can come across great phrasal verb that means that you
can be perceived as someone who is not sincere so try to strike a balance that means make a balance
between the formal and the Casual solution I would say that the last 10 years at my former job were
very rewarding I feel I lucked in by making a good career choice and now I'm ready to take the next
step golden tip number three don't Babble what is one of your greatest strengths I'd say it's going
to be a toss-up because you know you can't split ads here and when you get down to the nitty-gritty
you can't beat around the bush and at the end of the day I think that I'm very reliable and
talking too slowly my greatest strength well um I think my uh [Music] greatest strength
[Music] I think my greatest strength is um I make quick decisions
one of my greatest strengths is that I'm able to take on tasks with little supervision I like
to hit the ground running when I receive a task because I want to make sure that I can meet all
deadlines especially if they are tight deadlines so you can see that I'm using a nice idiomatic
expression there to hit the ground running that simply means that you are very proactive
when you receive a task and that you just start doing it you hit the ground running another good
collocation there was to meet deadlines that's used a lot at work also to meet tight deadlines
tight deadlines meaning that you have a very limited time to complete the task this next Golden
tip and I can't stress this enough this is playing the game of risky grammar risky vocabulary are you
comfortable being a team player in my last job I am used to work on a team which was very reward
starting if any team member would need me I would help them long story short story I'm a team player
avoid complicated verb tenses you could say in my last job I often worked on a team which was very
rewarding when my team members needed me I was always there to help them to sum up I consider
myself a team player now in that last little part long story short story is actually incorrect we
would say long story short which means the same as to sum up my bonus tip for do's and don'ts
today is try to avoid saying too many times can you repeat that sorry can you repeat that
because the more times you use that the more the interviewer is going to know that your English
listening skills aren't very good the solution for this would be the following you could say
and write this one down sorry I don't follow you sorry I don't follow you so this means exactly the
same thing but it kind of puts the ball back in the the court of the interviewer because
maybe the interviewer is thinking well maybe I asked the question in uh unclear way so that's
a good one and there's another one you can use in place of sorry can you repeat that which is
I'm not quite clear on what you just said I'm not quite clear okay everybody I hope that you
enjoyed this video I am going to be putting a quiz on my website for you to practice a lot of
these phrasal verbs a lot of these collocations that we use in a job interview and I also have a
very good model job interview that you will be able to download and I will leave a link below
for that as well it will also have not only the video but also the script for the dialogue
so I hope that you enjoyed this lesson if you need more help with private lessons I do give
private lessons for job interview preparation and business English and you can contact me at the
link below this video as well and I look forward to seeing you in our next lesson bye everybody