Interview - bad anxiety

grastgirl

The propranolol can be useful for taming the physical symptoms. I used to use 10mg, then you can tailor the dose to how you're feeling rather than hitting it hard with a full 80mg.

NewShadow

Good luck for your interview.

I think I remember you saying you're DWP. I'm CS - I think our system is similar to yours for interviewing.

I don't know if it will help you, but what's helped me in the past is thinking about how my interviewers are trained. Before my last interview (which was on promotion, and at which I was successful), I spent some time (just a couple of hours) reading the interviewer training material on the intranet, and borrowed the course booklet from a colleague that had been interview trained.

If you understand what they need from the interview, how they're told to score, how they record the information, it's easier to give it to them in a format they can write down - and it can only be taken into account if they write it down.

The main thing for me was that they're supposed to ask a question, then ask follow ups. They have to cover each competency and job specific, but it's a 45 minute interview, so can't ask a separate question on each one, so they really need to be able to ask their follow ups.

After hand shakes and introductions, plus questions at the end, you've only got about 10 minutes or so on each question - for your answer, and for their follow ups.

If you try to say everything possible, and guess what it is they're looking for, they can't ask their follow-ups. This can really stump them if they were hoping to use that question and follow ups for more than one of the competencies.

The key to what I'm saying is to let the interviewer steer the interview. Answer their question, with the buzz words from the job ad and the competencies, but don't feel that you've got to get into a huge amount of detail. If you give them time, and don't overwhelm them with your original answer, they can dig for what they need.

Generally, interviewers are there to find the best candidate. They don't want to exclude people, they don't want to make you feel inadequate or scared.

If they can't see how excellent you'd be at the job, they haven't done their job right .

scotty01

I take escitalopram on a daily basis and have in the past used propanalol for situations of high stress. It seems to work for me, physically it keeps all those signs of anxiety at bay. I was prescribed 10mg tablets but played around with the amount and found 40mg was the dose i needed. Another thing is working out how long before the event you need to take it. Definately have a trial run. I have not taken propanalol fir years now but definately would again if u needed it.

dirtycredit

Hiya,

How did it go?

DC x