hey ambitious professionals it's Linda
Rainer of Linda Rainer calm guiding you
to a career and life you'll truly enjoy
so if you have an interview coming up or
several coming up or you've had them in
the past and you found yourself being
extremely nervous for your interviews
and you're struggling in this area then
today's video is for you because I'm
going to walk you through my best five
tips on how to not be nervous for
interviews so that you can interview
with confidence and ease let's get
started
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now as a career strategist I have had
the honor of being able to help numerous
corporate ambitious professionals just
like you to land their dream job offers
and so if this is something that you're
interested in working with me one-on-one
I can give you details about that at the
end of this video I understand that
interviews are nerve-wracking it's not
really natural for us to just sit in a
small room or over video call to be
answering specific questions and then
having to show ourselves in a certain
way in a certain light knowing that the
way we perform is actually going to
determine whether or not we get the
elusive job offer that we really want so
you may find yourself as someone who
gets extremely nervous for interviews
maybe you trip over your words maybe
you're someone who forgets what you're
going to say you freeze up or you end up
rambling and those are all signs that
you're nervous in the interview and the
worst thing about being nervous in an
interview is if you show it if you show
that you're too nervous and that you
can't gain composure
unfortunately that shows to the hiring
manager that maybe they need to dock a
few points because you're not able to
maintain some self-control so I get it
interviews are nerve-racking but today
what I want to do is share with you my
best five tips on how to get yourself
into a different state of mind for your
interviews so that when you go for those
interviews you can sound more confident
feel more at ease and feel more secure
in what you have to say and what you
have to do in order to get the job tips
number one make yourself comfortable in
the space before the interview now this
tip is applicable whether you are doing
a video call interview which is more
likely the scenario these days or you're
doing an in-person interview in a
specific room at the company site so
what I'm trying to say here is that when
you get into the building if it's an
in-person interview you want to make
yourself comfortable you want to fill
yourself up with a sense of
eze meaning be present wherever you're
at if you're in the waiting room waiting
to be placed into the interview room
then sit there and breathe and get
connected to the space and get yourself
grounded that's what I mean by making
yourself comfortable in the space then
when you move on into the interview room
you want to feel yourself sitting down
sitting in the chair and breathing and
the likely scenario is that you're going
to be brought into the room before the
interviewer comes in so you want to get
yourself settled in the space don't get
yourself lost in your mind before an
interview because that's where you end
up rambling you end up forgetting what
you have to say and then all of a sudden
the interview just doesn't go well now
if the interview is going to be over
video call for example if it's going to
be over Skype or zoom or Google Hangouts
or some other video calling platform
then that's even better you have an
advantage in that sense where you get to
set up the space that you plan to do
your interview so if it's in your home
office if it's against a certain wall in
a place in your home that's quiet sit in
that space a day or two before the
interview and get yourself centered and
connected and visualize yourself doing
well in the interview in that particular
space because what this does is it sets
your energy and it creates an
expectation on yourself on your body to
do as you intend which is to do well so
you want to get yourself calm get
yourself centered and get yourself
comfortable in the space of where you're
going to be interviewing that's tip
number one tip number two is to prepare
your stories and responses in advance
now I just realized that my tips are a
little bit out of order some things you
would have to do before you do other
tips so this tip in particular tip
number two is something that you would
actually do before you even get yourself
comfortable in the space so when it
comes to preparing for interviews one
thing that so many ambitious
professionals I find make the mistake of
doing is that they don't prepare stories
they
prepare their responses in advance they
assume and maybe you make this mistake
you assume that you just have to go into
the interview the interviewer asks you
questions whether it's the recruiter or
the hiring manager and you just have to
answer you just feel like it's just
gonna be a conversation I'll just figure
it out on the spot and that's the last
thing you want you do not want to feel
unprepared imagine they ask you what do
you know about us as a company if you
didn't prepare your answer if you didn't
do research if you didn't structure out
what you're gonna say for that specific
question how do you expect yourself to
perform on the spot while you're feeling
nervous in the interview this is a
reason why you're nervous is because
you're unprepared so what you really
want to focus on is making sure that you
fully know what examples stories
achievements and responses you're going
to have for the most common questions
that come up in interviews now if this
is an area that you really struggle with
I highly recommend that you visit my
website and sign up for my free
interview strategy workshop the link is
right here down below and it's also in
the description box it's completely free
take a watch of it take some notes and
really learn how you can improve in your
interviews from that perspective because
if you do not prepare like I said in
advance you will feel nervous and then
in the interview can you imagine trying
to pull answers from thin air you're not
going to be able to your responses are
going to sound like you're making things
up you're going to ramble or you're
going to freeze up completely and
nothing will come out so you really want
to work on preparing those responses in
advance tip number three is to practice
your answers on camera beforehand now I
say practice your answers on camera
specifically if you are going to be
doing a video call interview then you
really want to be able to look at
yourself in your own laptop and see how
you look while you're giving your
answers and responses now if it's going
to be an in-person
interview then you can practice in front
of the mirror you don't necessarily have
to look at yourself on a camera but
either way either one works what's
really important here is that you
practice practice practice practice so
many people do not practice their
answers you really have to take it
seriously it almost is like going to
school all over again where you're
practicing for a presentation you know
that in order to do well for your
presentation you need to know exactly
what you're going to say you have an
idea of it and then you'll feel more at
ease when you're standing in front of
the classroom the same goes here for
preparing for an interview you have to
look at it as almost a sales pitch or a
sales presentation where you are selling
you yourself you're the product you're
marketing yourself and so if you're
gonna do a marketing pitch to someone
you do not want to do it off-the-cuff
winging it and making things up on the
spot that's not going to make you look
good and you're not going to feel good
especially because you're likely going
to forget certain things that you wanted
to mention and it's not going to be
cohesive it's not going to be articulate
it's likely just going to be a jumble of
things rambled together and way too much
information is going to be spilled to
the hiring manager so what you want to
do is prepare your answers in advance
like I said earlier but then you want to
practice them the way to practice is to
have the mirror or have the video call
set up press record and actually pretend
as if you're being asked the questions
and answer them answer them then after
you're done
stop the record button and re-watch
yourself identify areas where you could
have improved I look at yourself from a
different perspective don't look at
yourself as yourself look at yourself as
if you were the hiring manager and what
you would critique that person so you
have to really put on a critical mask
and and critical goggles whatever you
call them and be able to analyze
yourself and ask yourself would I hire
this person if I was the hiring manager
the more critical you can be but not in
a mean way but
the more analytical and critical you can
be of yourself the better your answers
will sound the better you'll be able to
improve the faster you'll be able to
improve and hopefully the more confident
and less nervous you're going to sound
and feel in the interview tip number
four focus on them not on you so this
tip is applicable specifically when
you're right
in the interview the biggest reason why
most of us get nervous is because our
minds are turned around and focused on
us you're focused on yourself too much
you're criticizing yourself too much
you're judging yourself too much on the
spot rather than focusing it outwards on
to the hiring manager you need to focus
on them you need to make sure that what
you're delivering lands on their side in
the right way so essentially you have to
think of yourself as you're throwing a
ball over the other side of the net you
want to make sure that it stays in the
court you want to make sure that they're
able to catch that ball that you're
delivering or throwing over there and
they're able to understand it and
they're able to take it and appreciate
it you want them to appreciate what
yours delivering but if you're focused
on yourself and you're criticizing
yourself and you're saying oh gosh this
is not going well
you're filling yourself up with all
these thoughts guess what you're not
doing a great enough job all that energy
is spent on you and not focusing on
doing a great job on delivering what you
need to deliver to the hiring manager so
shift your focus away from you shift
your focus onto making sure that every
word and every sentence that comes out
of your mouth is being delivered nicely
and landing nicely with the hiring
manager who is either on the other side
of the screen or on the other side of
the table across from you and finally
tip number five dress the part now this
may sound obvious but the way we look
impacts the way we feel so if you know
that going into the interview you're
going to be putting on your best suit or
your best blazer your best outfit
will show a very professional image at
least the one that the hiring manager is
looking for you are going to feel more
confident so just make sure that you
prepare for that and that you look your
best groom yourself comb your hair do
whatever you need to do to look and feel
sharp because that will hopefully give
you some ease as well and make you feel
more confident especially if it's an
interview where you know that they're
looking for a very specific caliber of
individual you just want to cover your
basis and look the part that's the most
basic tip I can give is look the part
and then everything else comes from the
previous four tips which is to sound and
act the part as well so there you have
it those are my five tips on how to not
be nervous for interviews hopefully
those helped you let me know in the
comments if any of those do and if
you're someone who's currently on the
job hunt you've been going for some
interviews you haven't been getting
great results and you realize that you
need more one-on-one professional
guidance from someone like myself then
feel free to reach out head on over to
my website Linda Raynor comm slash stand
out get hired read through the page fill
in the application form and from there
if it seems like we're a match one of my
team members will reach out to you
directly we also have other resources
that are free and available to you like
I mentioned earlier there's my free
interview strategy workshop the link is
in the description box down below but I
also have a free resume mastery workshop
if you find yourself not getting called
for enough interviews and you want to
work on your resume definitely check out
this workshop like I said it's
completely free take whatever tips you
can from it and hopefully that'll help
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