- Hi ambitious professionals.
It's Linda Raynier of lindaraynier.com Career Strategist.
I help driven professionals like you
to enhance your personal brand
so that you can pursue a career you'll truly enjoy
and in this video I wanna share with you a few tips
on how to demonstrate good body language
in an interview setting.
This was something that was actually brought up
by a CEO client of mine during one of our sessions.
He told me how he just recently read an article
that talked about the significance
of nonverbal communication in an interview,
specifically body language and how it impacted
the interviewer's decision
in hiring the particular candidate.
Specifically, this article mentioned
that there was an experiment that was done
where there were three parties involved.
There was the interviewer, there was the job candidate,
and then there was an observer.
So the observer's job was to watch the interview
as it was happening but they couldn't hear
what was being said by either the interviewer
or the job candidate.
And then of course the interviewer's responsibility
was to ask the questions to the job candidate
and go through the course of the interview.
By the end of the interview
the observer and the interviewer compared notes
and it turned out
that they both came to the exact same conclusion
about the candidate.
They had the same perception, they had the same judgements,
and they essentially came up with their own observations
of this individual, this job candidate.
So what I'm saying is the observer only watched in silence
but they came up to the conclusion,
the same conclusion that the interviewer did.
So what that means is that a lot of the times
it really doesn't matter exactly the words
that come out of your mouth.
It's not so much of an emphasis on what you say
but it's more of an emphasis on how you say it
and how you're feeling while you're in the interview.
Now I don't know
if they had a positive or negative impression
of that job candidate.
I didn't even both asking,
but the point is that you need to recognize
how important your body language, your energy,
and really the vibe that you give off in the interview is
because it really does play a role
in determining whether you'll move forward
in the interview process and get the job or not.
So in essence, if you're sending out the wrong vibes
but saying the right things in the interview,
it still doesn't matter because how you're being perceived
is much more than the words
that are coming out of your mouth.
So here are a few things to keep in mind
when it comes to demonstrating positive body language
in an interview.
Reminder number one, interviewers want to feel at ease
and in order for the interviewers to feel at ease with you,
you need to feel at ease with yourself.
So a lot of people think that when they go into an interview
they need to demonstrate their enthusiasm
and be overly excited and show a lot of energy
and the truth is when you do that it just comes off as fake.
It's not as genuine, you're not feeling authentic to them,
it really feels like you're putting on a show,
putting on a theatrical performance
and that's not the point of an interview.
If anything, they wanna see someone
who can demonstrate their true self.
And so the way to do that is to get connected
back to who you are,
to go back to that centered, connected place within you
and then let that confidence come through
and let that excitement come through from that place.
But it's not gonna be an overly dramatic excitement
that's gonna come through,
it's gonna be one where you feel good, you're excited,
but you feel good about this opportunity
and you're gonna go in with that positive mindset
and because you're feeling good in yourself,
they're gonna feel that energy too.
So you have to remember, it all starts with you.
You go back yourself, ask yourself am I feeling positive,
am I feeling good, am I feeling confident?
And if you're not then you have to develop a way
to get yourself feeling that way.
You have to really practice at feeling good.
That's the honest truth 'cause we practice feeling bad
over our lifetime growing up into adults
and it's really the reverse.
You really need to practice feeling good,
feeling confident, and allow that to come from within
and out into the interview room.
Reminder number two, you're the expert so be the expert.
You're the expert meaning you have what they're looking for.
You have the technical skills, the experience,
and the knowledge and the ability and potential
to take on this role.
So you have to remind yourself of that.
A lot of people think that they're going into an interview,
ya know it's a competition against other people
and they have to fight for their job and they have to,
it comes across as desperate basically.
But the goal here is to not see yourself in that way
and see yourself as someone who has a set of experiences
and knowledge and skills that they can make use of
as long as they're willing to hire you.
So you have to demonstrate to them
that you are the person that they're looking for
in the sense that you are the expert in your specific field,
in your specific role.
It's not about being cocky,
it's not about being overly confident,
that's, ya know the farthest end of the spectrum
and it's not about not having any confidence at all
but it's about being somewhere in the middle,
having that calm, confident tone in your voice
and in the way that you present yourself.
Reminder number three,
be present every second that you're there.
This is probably the most important tip that I have for you
and that is that you need to really be present
when you're going into an interview room.
As much as you may have prepared, rehearsed your answers,
rehearsed your interview scripts,
and really rehearsed all your stories ahead of time,
once you're there you need to close the books
and really just be present
when you're sitting in front of that interviewer.
The reason for that is because when they ask you a question
they expect for your answer to really resonate with them.
They expect that the answer
is going to be directly answering
that specific question that they've asked.
And I can tell you that a lot of people go into interviews
and whenever they're being asked a question,
because they're thinking of so many things at once
and they're thinking about the next question
that might be asked
that they're not directly giving the answer
to the question that's being asked at that point in time
the attention and time that it needs.
And so what happens is
you seem as though you're not really listening to them,
you come across as being a little bit frazzled essentially.
Like you're not present essentially.
You're not connecting with them.
And so the most important tip is to be present, be there.
They ask you a question, you take it in
and then you come up and allow for the right stories,
the right words, the right phrases to flow through you.
And because you've already practiced it well ahead of time,
which I hope you did,
then by the time you're in there your subconscious
is going to just start bringing the right words,
bringing the right stories for you to say in that moment
and it'll flow perfectly.
But you have to give yourself that space and time
and that opportunity to truly tap in and listen
and pay attention to the person in front of you
but also pay attention to what you feel
is the right thing to say at that point in time.
So there you have it.
My three reminders that will help you to demonstrate
the right body language in an interview.
So if you're an experienced corporate professional
and you're thinking about making a career move
and you're wondering what direction you should go in next
or you're thinking about improving your resume
and would like some help on that or your interview skills,
feel free to reach out to me, I'd be happy to help.
Just simply go to lindaraynier.com,
click under Work With Me, and you can click under
either Career Coaching Services,
Personal Brand Renewal to Stand Out and Get Hired,
or Intuitive Purpose Coaching
and decide which one you'd like and we can talk some more.
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