Interviews. . .

ali-t

I always go into job interviews with the mindset that I am assessing them about whether I want to work there rather than them interviewing me. Thankfully I have pretty much always gone to interviews while being employed elsewhere so haven't really needed to get the job which takes off a lot of pressure.

I also prepare lots of answers to questions using the person spec or job description thinking of multiple examples and situations where I have experience of doing the things required in the role.

Essentially keeping in mind that the world won't end and nothing will change if I don't get the job keeps the nerves and blank head away for me.

Successful_Day

[FONT=&quot]If your mind goes blank the moment you walk into the interview, it's because you're actually very, very nervous and your system becomes overloaded and you blank out. It's actually like when someone jumps out of an airplane the first time they go skydiving their mind will actually blank out and they will miss the first few seconds of their skydive, because their mind overloads and they can't handle the experience. Now obviously, if you are interviewing for a job, it's not exactly skydiving and if you need to be able to get back in control of yourself during the interview, there are few things that you can do to combat this. The first is to actually train yourself to handle the interview situation better. What I recommend you do is simulate interviewing on your own. Go into a foreign environment that is sort of like a interview environment and have people there you don't necessarily know well and have yourself dressed like a interview candidate and then be dressed like an interviewer. Basically do a test run and repeat this process a few times until you feel more comfortable with it. What you have to do is get your body and yourself used to this kind of situation and the only way to do it is to experience it. The second thing you can do to help boost your confidence is to prepare for those critical questions that you are most likely going to be asked and have your answers ready to go. So for instance, one of the most likely questions that’s going to be asked first is, “Tell me about yourself?" If you have an answer ready to go for tell me about yourself, you will at least feel more confident when all of a sudden the words start coming back to you for the answer that question and the question after that and the question after that. You will start to regain control of yourself during the interview.[/FONT]