Rehearse Your Interview on Video

So let’s say you’ve done all the exercises so far you’ve watched all the videos and you’re still nervous about that job interview.

What are the things you can do to reduce the nerves.

For starters give yourself extra time if something takes you a half an hour to get there and your job interviews at 11:00 don’t leave the house at ten thirty because even if everything goes well you may find yourself walking very quickly.

That last two blocks to get to the job interview and you could be sweating you don’t want to get there and all of a sudden oh no I’m sweating I’m perspiring I’m oily.

Give yourself plenty of time and allow for a bus delay a mass transit delay traffic jam if you’re driving.

Give yourself extra time if something takes you a half an hour to get there.

Give yourself a full hour so that you have plenty of time before you walk in your collected.

You’re not rushed.

You’re not out of breath.

You’re not flush you’re not sweaty and you’re completely comfortable.

OK.

Now for the number one tip on how to completely eliminate your nerves here is exactly what you need to do.

Find a friend colleague a family member tell them the company you’re interviewing with.

Give them a few sample questions.

You think that the person interviewing you might ask some of them are obvious why should we hire you.

Tell me about yourself.

Why are you interested in this position.

Have your friend family member colleague ask you these questions but here’s the trick.

You’re not going to like this but it’s the number one thing you can do to get rid of nerves.

Give your family member friend a cell phone and have them record the entire fake PRACTICE JOB INTERVIEW WITH YOU.

I know you don’t want to do it but guess what.

You need to do it because if you’re in the job interview and you’re nervous and all of a sudden you know you’re doing this doesn’t really matter how good your answers are you’re not going to leave a good impression with that individual interviewing you they’re going to think you’re a little strange or high stronger weird.

So that’s why you need to practice on video.

What makes us nervous quite often is not knowing how we come across.

Are we speaking to really speaking too softly.

Are we somehow shouting and we’re not aware of it.

It’s very easy to find out.

You just record and then you have to watch it.

I know you don’t want to watch it teach and I like my face and I like my voice.

Well guess what.

The person who is interviewing you has to look at your face so you might as well do it to the person interviewing you has to listen to your voice.

So you might as well know how it comes across.

So you’ve got to have your friend colleague family member interview you.

You’ve got to record it on video if you don’t record it on video.

It really doesn’t help much.

And that’s the same with practicing in front of a mirror.

That doesn’t really help you practice in front of the mirror.

And words are coming out of your mouth but your thing was my nose a little crooked or I never had my eyes to be.

Don’t practice your job interview answers in front of a mirror.

Practice with someone asking you the questions and you videotape it and you watch it.

But you’ve got to watch it really carefully you got to figure out what do you like.

What do you not like if you notice that the first two minutes of an eight minute interview you’re speaking really quickly and rushed.

Make a note of that and practice it again consciously speaking slower in the first two minutes so that even though you are nervous you don’t appear to be nervous.

So here’s the real trick you have to keep practicing until you like your answers on video.

You’ve got to like how you look how you sound how you move.

You can have the best dancers in the world.

If you’re kind of like sitting back like this.

Arms crossed it’s can be extraordinarily difficult to leave a good impression with that interviewer.

You need to be leaning forward when you’re talking to this person interviewing you need to be leaning forward listening to them.

Your hands actually need to move.

You shouldn’t be holding pencils holding books in the middle of the job interview.

You shouldn’t be sitting on your hands.

You should do it.

All people do when they’re comfortable talking their hands move.

Disregard all the sitcom advice about how you’re likely to be nervous and do this.

Now people don’t actually do that.

In my experience so you want your hands to move naturally.

Now if absolutely nobody will rehearse with you then just practice yourself.

Ask yourself a question.

Hit record on your video and tape it and keep doing that until you like it.

Now maybe you do it in one take and you love it.

You’re confident and you’re ready to go in.

It may be you have to do 100.

I don’t care how many it takes.

But if you want to get over nervousness no one way of doing it is practice.

Your answers on video and tell you love every aspect of style and substance do take after take after take if that’s what it takes.

Now this will get faster this will get easier the more job interviews you go on you’ll spend less time on this because you’ll get better at it you will get more familiar with it but don’t just think in your head about your answers don’t just write it down.

Don’t just rely on your memo.

You must practice your answers on video watch it listen to it until you like it then your nerves will disappear.