hey everybody don georgevich here with
job interview tools in this video i'm
going to teach you how to properly
introduce yourself in a job interview
and make a great first impression now
there's three types of interviews you
have the kind where you drive to the
employer's office you have the kind
where you meet with them on skype or
zoom and then you have telephone
interviews and the way you introduce
yourself in any one of those interview
settings is slightly different but don't
worry because i'm going to walk you
through each style of interview and tell
you exactly what to say and how to say
it
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you want me to create more of so let's
talk about the most common type of
interview first where you drive to an
employer's office now when i used to
interview for jobs i would show up like
an hour before the interview and i would
just sit in my car i would review my
notes i would review the job description
and i would get intimately familiar with
the challenges that they're facing the
first year accountabilities you know
everything that they want someone to do
in this role i would read it over and i
would just feel it and then i would
visualize myself in the role like i
already worked there and what this would
do is raise my emotional state to the
highest possible level where i feel so
good about myself and the value that i
can bring to this organization if they
were to hire me and i just keep thinking
it over and over and living it and
seeing myself doing this job and what
this does is this makes me
feel so good about the value that i can
bring that i can't help but make a great
first impression so the next thing to do
is get out of your car and walk up into
the office and i usually get to the
office about 10 minutes before the
interview because i don't want to show
up like 30 minutes and sit in their
waiting area they'll be like you know
don't you have anything else to do and
plus it makes them feel uncomfortable so
aim to get to your interview about 10
minutes before it's ready to start and
when you walk into the reception area
and you're greeted you can just simply
say hey i'm done and i'm here for the
interview for the programmer analyst
position and then that's all you need to
do they'll ask you to sit down and wait
to be called and then
within 10 minutes the hiring manager
will come out and he or she will likely
introduce themselves be like hello don
you know this is bill and you know why
don't you come on back and then they'll
invite you back to a room a board room
an office or something like that where
you'll sit down with the hiring manager
and maybe a couple of other people i
don't know it just depends so let's say
you walk into a room let's say there's
three or four people already in there
and you're not sure how to introduce
yourself to you know all of those people
i mean do you walk around and shake all
of their hands i don't all i do is when
i first meet the hiring manager i shake
their hand and i say hey i'm done
georgiovic it's great to meet you and
then you know they walk you back you go
into the room and then if there's
several other people in there all i do
is i simply say hey i'm don georgeovich
it's great to meet all of you and i
leave it at that i don't say anything
else i don't go around and say hello
bill hello sally you know hello james i
don't do any of that um i just do the
blanket hello i'm don georgeovich it's
great to meet all of you and then we sit
down for the interview so after you sit
down they're probably going to ask you
to introduce yourself to the group or
tell us a little bit more about you now
this is not an opportunity for you to
start selling yourself and talking about
accomplishments all you want to do is
tell them
how you got started doing what you're
doing or why you're interested in what
you do and some of the places that
you've worked at it you know where you
see yourself going that's really about
it
because it's an introduction you're just
telling them about you what you like to
do and where you see yourself going
anything more
becomes a sales pitch and the first
thing you do when you sit down for an
interview is you don't want to start
selling yourself the selling comes later
the selling comes after you've already
talked to them about the job and that
you're actually interested in it then
you can go into the sales pitches this
is just the introduction and remember
those first impressions last a lifetime
so you want to give them a brief
introduction that just skims over who
you are what you're looking for what you
like about it where you see yourself
going and that's about it and then the
interview is going to take on its own
course and i have other videos for that
so let's talk about the second type of
interview where you meet your
interviewer over skype this is similar
to
face to face but slightly different so
the first thing you're going to do is
you're going to join the skype session
and or the zoom session and i usually
like to show up for those you know maybe
five minutes ahead of time you don't
need to sit in the
zoom waiting area for 10 minutes but
five minutes is good now you want to go
through the same preparation
that i talked about
when you're meeting the employer at
their office so you're not going to sit
in your car and visualize yourself
working there but you can do that from
the comfort of your desk or your home
and you go through the same process
visualize yourself in the world see
yourself in the role and then that's
going to condition you for meeting your
employer over skype now the first thing
they're going to do is when you both
join on a lot of people like to go hello
hello can you hear me can you hear me
don't do any of that all you have to do
is simply say hey this is don i'm here
for the interview and can you hear me
okay that's the first thing i want to
know is if they can hear me and then if
they can hear me i say hey can you see
me okay and then we move on now if they
can't hear or see you oh that one's on
you
now another thing i like to do for a
skype interview i hate using webcams
because the webcam microphone oh it just
sucks so what i like to do is i have a
headset
and i like to put it on and this allows
me to hear exactly everything
the employer is saying i don't have to
listen through it through my pc speakers
or my iphone i hear it right into my ear
so it's crystal clear and i have a
microphone so i don't have to transmit
my voice over this long distance to my
webcam microphone this allows the
employer to hear me very clearly and
this thing is actually pretty cool this
plugs right into my iphone no sales
pitch for an iphone here but this plugs
right in and this allows me to take my
my skype conversations anywhere i want
to go so if you've ever had a meeting
with me over skype you'll know that i
always have headphones on and i have a
microphone right by my mouth i would
suggest that you do something similar
you can get a set like this probably you
know for 50 bucks
really inexpensive but makes such a huge
difference makes a huge impression
because if you have an interview over
skype and your microphone isn't very
good or they can't quite hear you or you
can't hear them you know then the
quality of your first impression goes
down so you want to do everything you
can to make that the best it can be so
after all of that and you guys finally
connect on skype
and you can hear and see each other you
know the next thing they might say is
hey can you tell us a little bit more
about yourself and what you're looking
for
you know then you go down through the
same road you talk about you know what
you're looking for you know what you
like about the things that you do some
of the things that you've done and where
you see yourself going you know and then
the interview is going to take on its
course now while you're doing this
while you're going through this you
always want to be you don't always want
to be smiling but you do want to smile
because the smile is a way to release
tension
and you always want to be looking at
them you want to be talking
clearly you never want to just be like
hey i'm done here for the interview i
mean can you imagine for a second
with
the opening line i used for this video
was hello i'm don i'm going to teach you
how to make a great first impression on
your interview you would have clicked
away in two seconds the only reason
you're still here is because i think i
made a great first impression on
introducing this video to you and you
want to do the same to an employer
otherwise
they're essentially going to click away
from you too so always always use a
crystal clear strong
deep voice
and look at your interviewer clearly
whether whether you're doing face to
face or whether you're doing zoom it can
be a little bit harder over zoom because
if you're looking at your camera it kind
of might be up high and then your
interviewer won't think that you're
looking at them but you kind of have to
just play with that and find something
that works for you but especially over
any type of zoom call
your audio quality is very important
visual quality
not as much all right so let's move on
to the last form of interview which is
the old fashioned telephone interview
now if you get a call for an interview
there it's very simple all you have to
do when they call and you say hello this
is don you know i'm here to talk about
the interview and that's all you got to
do you know i'm here to talk about the
interview for the program or analyst
position you know whatever it is and
that's it you don't have to go into any
long spiel just a very brief
introduction
and then you move on and then they're
probably they may they may or may not go
into telling you about yourself because
that question
doesn't always seem to come up in a
phone interview what's more likely in a
phone interview is to say hey can you
tell us a little bit more
about what you're looking for
which is different than tell me about
yourself
so if you get that question you know
what are you looking for don't be caught
off guard just simply walk them through
your criteria for a job you know if you
are in the information technology field
or you're in web security cyber security
whatever it is just tell them you know
this these are the kinds of things that
i've been doing and these are the kinds
of things that i'm looking for and what
they want to do is they want to qualify
you that's more of what a phone
interview is than anything it's a
qualification interview and the only
reason they didn't invite you in in
person is because they want a short
interview to find out if they want to go
to the next step so a phone interview is
very brief you don't want to give
long-winded answers everything needs to
be short and on point and you're in a
phone interview you're never really
selling yourself you're never going
through and talking about all the great
things that you've done and you know why
they should hire you
all that is selling and that comes later
that comes after you guys have come to a
point where
you like what they have and they like
what they see
then you can talk about
why you're the best person for the job
but the phone interview generally is not
the place for that so there you are my
friend you got three ways
to introduce yourself and make a great
first impression in a job interview but
more than anything to get you to the
point where you're going to make that
first impression
is the conditioning and that's where you
need to become intimately familiar with
what they're looking for and feel good
about yourself
that you can make a valuable
contribution and only then
is your body and your mind gonna do
everything else and put it all together
for you so that you go in and you make a
great solid first impression and always
smile
always smile not constantly smiling but
make sure that you smile throughout the
process it's going to make it's going to
relax you it's going to relax them it's
going to humanize you instead of someone
who's just been there talking straight
faced all the time i mean who wants to
hire somebody like that
you want to crack a smile you want to
show them your real person and more than
anything your voice your voice makes
such a huge difference i mean if you're
just really talking soft all the time or
you're talking really loud all the time
you want to balance that out you want to
match your interviewer's style
if they're a fast talker and you're a
slow talker try to speed your rate of
speech up a little bit if they're a slow
talker and you're a fast talker try to
slow down but for most of us you know
just our normal speaking rhythm is going
to be fine
but you need to be aware of it and you
need to adapt to it and
you need to be heard all right so i
guess i'm sorry that's all i have for
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