If you have a job then the chances are you have been interviewed at some stage. Many people don't enjoy the formal process of being interviewed and often with good reason. Here are a few ways that interviews can go wrong.
Imagine the situation, the night before the interview. You desperately want this job. The pay, conditions or work suit you better than the current job that you are starting to hate. So you sit down to diligently do some preparation.
You try all those tricks you have read on the internet about calming down by imagining the interviewer naked. It works for a few moments until you realise that your interview might be doing the same. You barely look at your CV as you fill your mind full of those negative thoughts like hundreds of people have better CVs or an uncle in the company or are just confident and slick with their language.
Having barely read through your CV you go to bed to dream of turning up to the interview naked. Morning comes round too soon and you are rushing out the door to get there on time. You arrive at the company just on time flustered, dishevelled and out of breath. Wheezing the name of your interviewer at the receptionist you get the clear idea that she thinks you are some crazed maniac as you suddenly go blank when she asks for your name.
A few minutes later a sour faced old cow greets you as your interviewer. She smiles at you like a serial killer just about to fall on their prey as she leads you to the interview room. In a desperate attempt to clam down you start some small talk. This basically consists of babbling something about the weather, the traffic and some TV you watched last night. Luckily the interview room is close by.
The prune faced cow offers you a coffee knowing full well you will spill it down your front. After the mess has been cleared her face cracks in to the approximation of a smile and she says "As a gentle start to the interview, based on your CV what can you offer our company?"
You mind immediately flicks through to if this is a gentle start what happens when it gets rough? You then realise that you didn't bring any copies of your CV and can barely remember anything on it. After a few minutes of aimless wittering about your favourite holidays you get the distinct impression that she thinks you have faked your CV.
The old crone decides to focus you in on some key areas by asking why you want to leave your current employment. You fumble around trying not to admit that you hate the company, the work and your boss and eventually hit on a "looking for fresh challenges" answer. Annoyingly she asks what sort of fresh challenges you think her company will give you.
Like a guppy opening and closing your mouth scrambling for an answer you desperately clutch at straws. Realising that she may be picturing you as naked has not helped and now you have forgotten the original question. You hope to make it out of the interview sometime in this lifetime.
Just as you are losing the will to live the old crone informs you that she has finished all her questions and asks if you have any questions for her. In an effort to appear keen you ask her how soon will the company make a decision. Having answered your question she shows you out and you leave hoping beyond hope that they offer you the job.
I am certain that most people will have had some of this experience. What would be like if you could remain focused, calm and take control of the interview? How about implanting suggestions in to the interviewer's head that you are the ideal candidate for the job with every answer? Or even coming in to the interview quietly confident but also dramatically building the rapport between you and the interviewer?
Sound impossible? Perhaps not, many of these skills occur naturally and you have certainly seen others do this as part of their daily lives.
Consider circumstances where you have heard about someone just strolling through life getting what everything, including the jobs they want. These are the people using these skills, sometimes naturally, sometimes they have been trained. In the majority of situations you can learn all these skills in a matter of hours.
Your CV will pull a lot more interviews if you just add some NLP and psychological techniques. Spending just a couple of hours CV Writing would pay you back dividends. It may take a couple of hours working through a Hypnotic Interview Answer formula, but once it is done you will be able to answer interview questions powerfully for life.
Banishing interview nerves, building rapport, maintaining composure and taking control of the interview all seem like hard skills but they can be learnt in less than thirty minutes.A couple of hours mastering job interview skills would make the difference for most people between the job you are doing and a truly great job.
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