Helping Career Professional Succeed in the Job Interview

June 27, 2016November 23, 2020

3 Body Language Tricks to Make The Interviewer See You As Confident

Use Body Language Tricks to be Seen as Confident

Confidence in the job interview is everything.

Even if you feel nervous you need to, externally show confidence.

These clever body language tricks will help convince any job interview that you are one hell of a confident interviewee.

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Job Interview Confidence Trick 1

This visualization trick is used by actors.

As you walk into the interview room, the interviewer will look up from his desk and make an opinion about your level of confidence from your posture.

To create a positive posture, imagine that there is a piece of string dangling from the door frame of the interview room. It is long enough to touch the very top of your head. As you walk through the doorway, imagine lifting your head and straitening your back, so your head just reaches the bottom of the string.

This will help you to create a confidence looking posture, influencing the job interview.

Job Interview Confidence Trick 2

Is that Dave? God I’ve not seen you since school

Whenever you meet an old friend who you haven’t seen in ages, you instantly smile, a big bright smile.

A big smile makes the friend feel warm and specially. When in an interview situation, wait until you walk through the doorway and then smile a big bright smile at the interviewer, imagine that the interviewer is an old friend.

This smile will create rapport, likability and you will be seen as positive, approachable and confident.

Job Interview Confidence Trick 3

Talk with your hands

Nervous and shy people keep there hands down their sides, it’s as if they want to make themselves look small, unnoticeable.

Confident people will express themselves and communicate with words and gestures. Don’t only does a person who talks with their hands increase communication they look more confident and relaxed.

June 25, 2016November 23, 2020

Change Your Language Change Your Interview Stress Levels

Understand How Language Change Interview Stress Levels.

Job interviews are really stressful, but are more more stressful by the language the interviewee uses when trying to motivate themselves.

The actual words we use when talking to our-self has a massive impact on your emotional well being. Our internal dialog is created automatically, by taking control of your personal language, you create interview confidence, reducing job interview stress.

Here are 3 simple ways to reduce job interview stress by choosing stress reducing words

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Speaking in the Third Person

Stressed and anxious interviewees use associated language “I have to answer all the interview questions…” Is this is said from a negative perspective, the visual imagery you create from these words increases stress.

Self-distancing helps you to control your thoughts and emotional response. By using disassociated phrases the stress impact lowers “Chris has to answer all the interview questions..” you change your perspective, changing your response and behavior.

To lessen stress, think about the phrasing of yourself talk. Become aware of the “I” you are using, and repeat the same phrase replacing “I” with your name.

Strong and Weak Words

When preparing for the job interview it is easy to fall into the trap of using weak words that didn’t motivate.

Take these 2 examples;

I’m going to try and pass the job interview
I will pass the job interview

Words such as “try” “maybe” “want” don’t create the feeling of commitment. By replacing these weak words with commitment statements you are more likely to achieve your goals.

When feeling committed to a passing a job interview, your stress levels naturally drop as you have a positive focus which creates interview confidence.

Language and Perspective

Interviewees often focus on the negative reasons why they need to pass the job interview.

The way you phrase your reason for attending the job interview will create stress or desire.

Most people phrase their job interview goal in the negative stating the thing they want to get away from “I don’t want to be unemployed…”

What you say to yourself, your reason for the job interview, is represented by visual imagery. This image creates an emotional response, either positive or negative and only positive emotions help you to relax in the job interview, increasing confidence.

To increase job interview confidence, reframe your negatively phrased goal positively “I want to gain a job with a pay rise”

June 22, 2016November 24, 2020

3 Sales Communication Techniques That Will Boost Your Interview Performance

Use Sales Techniques to Boost Your Interview Performance

The job interview is a 45-minute sales pitch

Possessing the art of sales is key to interview success. The better you sell yourself the more employable you will become. Many career professionals possess the experience and skills required for the position and should be offered the job role, but their lack of sales communication techniques let them down.

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Job Interview Sales Communication Technique 1

Speak up to show your confidence

Lesson one in sales is confident communication. What you say and more importantly how you say creates influence.

You will never persuade anyone if you mumble, stutter or speak in quiet tones.

Instead, pick power words – what you say creates an emotional impact. Use tone, projection and talk with gestures and facial expressions to communicate with confidence.

Over two-thirds of communication is non-verbal, this is why you need your tone to create a strong emotional response, increase volume to keep interested and say it with passion.

Job Interview Sales Communication Technique 2

Keep on point

Often salespeople lose a customer as they naturally go off point talking about criteria that don’t interest the customer.

In the job interview keep in mind the desired criteria for the position you are applying for. With this objective in mind, think before you speak and choose examples that relate to both the asked question and the desired criteria.

Also, use the power of three. Keep each sales point to three significant specific items “I’m a strong team player for three key reasons, one…”

Job Interview Sales Communication Technique 3

Use a story

Stories, as all salespeople know, have a strong emotional impact and it’s emotional impact that creates desire.

To have the best impact with your interview answers, use a story rather than just giving specifics. Open with intrigue as suspense increases the interviewer listing to you. Explain the situation and goal, and give a detailed description of how you achieved the objective

June 21, 2016November 24, 2020

3 Skills You Can Learn That Will Help You To Manipulate the Interviewer

3 Job Interview Maniplutaion Technqiues

Manipulation is the art of getting other people to do what you want them to do.

In the job interview, all interviewees, attempt to manipulate the interviewer (even if this is subconscious).

This doesnt mean you need to lie.

Manipulation can be positive when used to help you sell your real skills, qualities and experiences.

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Acting Classes

Master manipulators control their emotions.

This is a key skill in a job interview.

First, for many fear and anxiety take over. As well as requiring the skills to reduce this negative associated response to an interview, you need to take this one step further and act like a confident, charismatic and enthusiastic career professional.

Actors are skilled in controlling their emotions.

They can cry on cue, take on the persona of a confident business billionaire or if the part requires it, come across as lovable, charming and friendly.

By being able to create a character in the job interview you can manipulate the interviewer so they believe that this is your natural state.

If your nervousness and fear, are letting you down, join an acting class.

Debate Clubs

Successful career professionals manipulate the job interview with their ability to think on their feet, to reframe negative comments and to passionately fight their own corner.

Manipulators as well as interviewees need to be compelling in their argument to convince others.

Many interviewees fall into the trap of being defensive – this natural strategy will only end in no job offers. Instead learn to debate, persuade and influence with your communication skills.

Code Reading

Have you ever been surprised after, what you presumed was a successful job interview, that you weren’t offered the desire position?

In the job interview, it is easy to get caught up in ourselves, especially as our energy is spent finding examples to the interview question.

It is this internal focus that creates only one perspective.

Code readers, on the other hand, have the ability to focus on their audience, responding to little cues and tells.

People give away so much when you know what to look for. As we said in the 73 rules for influencing the interview, once you understand what simple gestures, body language and the words people use, you can use these “tells” to change your story to influence and manipulate what the employer thinks about you.

June 18, 2016November 24, 2020

How to Con the Interveiwer and Get Away With It

The Interview Con

To con the job interviewer (well anyone really) you need to promise them something of great benefit.

In the job interview this is how you will double there profit, decrease overheads or gain them millions of pounds in new business.

The bigger the benefit the better.

In the job interview stress how easy it is for you, the star employee, to achieve this. Explain how this system is something you successful implemented in your last organisation. Explain how the cost for this system is low or none at all, it’s about the knowledge or contacts that you have, that you are happy to share with them.

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Sweep aside the Skeptics

Depending on how you frame the “Great Bennett” some employers will be skeptic.

You need to get the interviewer to commit to you. When someone commits to you, even if this commitment is only a small commitment they are psychologically more likely to commit to something bigger.

In the interview you ask the skeptic interviewer that if were able to double their profits would they recruit you? Every interviewer will answer yes to this.

Sweeten the pot.

Share a piece of advice, a contact or something that shows that you have something that would benefit the organisation. This will create interest and desire.

Create Positive Visualizations

Ask how if you were to be successful in the job interview and if you were to implement your success strategy how would this benefit the company?

Get the interviewer to imagine you both collaborating together and get them to imagine how your strategy/contacts along with what the organisation is currently doing would together take their profits to the next level.

The more you influence the interviewer to imagine you and them being successful the more they will buy into you.

At this stage you may want to return to the commitment stage, offering a few more sweeteners.

Create Desire

The interviewer now, will be imagining how they will benefit from you being hired. Not only will they want to recruit you they will want you on their team.

You will hear the language the interviewer subconsciously uses go from the language of a skeptic to the language of desire.

They will want to offer you the job on the spot, but employment law won’t allow this.

To keep the flame burning once you leave the interview, explain that you have already been offer another job that you are highly interested in.

Scarcity is a massive motivational pull, as people always want what they cant have.

If the employer see’s massive value in you but then realises that a competitor make snatch you up, their desire for you will triple.

Not only will you be offered the position, you will now be in a strong position to negotiate a high salary.

June 17, 2016November 24, 2020

How To Build a Positive Relationship With Your Interviewer in Minutes

Build a Positive Relationship With Your Interviewer in Minutes

A positive relationship is the key to a successful relationship.

The problem, of course, is you only have a few minutes to get the employer to like you.

The interviewer’s perspective of you is key because all of your following answers will be filtered through your recently built, positive or negative, relationship.

These 3 steps will help create a positive relationship with your interviewer, within minutes of walking into the interview room

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The Power of a Smile

The first step is so simple it’s stupid.

But the fact is that most interviewees aren’t relaxed enough to smile.

A smile is powerful because of 3 reasons.

The first is that you look confident and friendly when you smile – your smile is your best feature. When you smile, due to mirror neurons, the interviewer will feel the same happy emotions they would feel if they were smiling themselves.

Secondly, when you smile you come across as approachable and trustworthy; this allows the interviewer to open up to you because they feel relaxed in your presence.

Thirdly. It has been proven that you are seen as more attractive when you smile. And it’s also been proven that you are more likely to be offered the position is the interviewer finds you attractive.

Engage the Interviewer

At the interviewer start, ask the interviewer questions, ideally about them-self.

This is easier than it seems, you simply at the interview start make small talk.

You can ask about the number of interviews they have planned on that day, you can follow this by asking what they are going to do that night to relax? It’s at this point that you need to ask questions and show interest in the interviewer’s answers.

Naturally, we love to be the focus of attention. We also love the people who show us this attention and will want to be around them more often.

Address the Interviewer By Name

Like the first step, this third suggestion is really easy to implement and helps to influence the interviewer.

People respond better to people who use their name.

Using the interviewer’s name shows that you are interested, you have remembered their name and it helps to create a bond between the two of you.

Psychologically speaking, the interviewer will like you more if you both share a similar sounding name.

This same natural likability factor works with anything you have in common; name, went to the same school, follow the same sports team, live in the same district when you were young.

June 16, 2016November 24, 2020

How To Influence The Interviewers Thoughts

Influencing others is an important skill to have especially in a job interview.

Being able to persuade people with words can have a massive impact on the outcome of the job interview.

What you say in the job interview creates a picture in the interviewer’s mind, this internal image feeds the interviewer’s emotional response and it is that emotional response, that gut feeling that has a direct impact on the interview outcome.

Even two sentences with the same meaning can create different responses. The key here is to pick your words carefully.

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The Glass is Half Full or Half Empty

This common saying makes my point clear.

The glass, either half full or half empty, holds the same volume of liquid, but the way you phrase the quantity of water creates a different perspective.

When answering your interview question you need to frame your interview answers in the positive. Imagine you tell the employer that you worked at X organisation, the employer looks disgusted and says “isn’t everyone who works there lazy?” you can easily reframe this response by responding with “yes, that why i want to work for an organisation like yours where you value hard workers like me”

Using Pain to Create Desire

A big mistake most interviewees make in the interview is not creating a painful story.

Because you are selling yourself, you, the interviewee, believe that you have to state everything in the positive. In most situations you do. But when asked to give an example, stay away from the temptation to explain how you did X with success.

Have you ever been to a movie and the whole film was positive?

The storyline simply being the good things that happen to the main character? No, because people like suspense, we want to be taken on a journey, even though we know the film will have a good ending, we still want to hear about heartache, the problems – we like suspense.

For your interview answer to influence, to have a bigger impact tell a story.

Explain the problem that you were face with and the consequences if you fail. Build suspense, even lower your tone.

Create a story of pain, before you, the superhero of the story comes to the rescue and saves the day.

Pick Power Words

‘Tell me about yourself? ‘ This commonly asked question can either persuade or put off the employer.

The words you choose to use to describe yourself will positively or negatively influence the interviewee, even when the meaning of the word is the same.

This is because all words have different levels of emotional intensity

Say these words out loud and notice how they make you feel different even though the meaning of the word is the same;

I’m a good team player or I’m an excellent team player
I try my best or I put my all into everything I do
dedicated or loyal
responsible or follow rules
goal setter or goal achiever
ideas or innovative
enjoy or passionate

June 16, 2016November 24, 2020

Your Resume Requires Rejuvenation, But How?

Time and again you’ll meet people telling you about the significance of working on your resume and giving it the best shape possible, for better job outcomes. But, do you really see the point of applying the same old hacks and still expecting results to be in your favor?

The job market all across the globe has transformed and so has the employers’ approach. Putting your old school ideas into implementation would fetch you nothing more than peanuts, a job-offer left aside.

Also, keeping the candidates on the mature side under due consideration, a lot that has transformed needs to be on the paper in the most concise yet enticing way possible. Hence, the discussion given below will present the 5 most pertinent points, to help you rejuvenate your resume. Give it a good glance and arm yourself for success.

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Start With Omitting Those Old Dates

Hiring managers nowadays look for a specific kind of qualification pertaining to every job profile.

Caring about dates is the last thing going in their minds, until the moment you make a mention. Apart from being an age indicator, the dates of your degree also act as a pointer suggesting your experience (or inexperience rather).

Hence, if you’ve completed a certification recently, mentioning the time period for the same will show the little experience you hold in the field, which is obviously something you’ll not prefer.

Know The Difference Between a Duty and an Accomplishment

Every now and then, the first advice that comes with respect to a resume is including all necessary keywords. It’s true that keywords help it to rise above the database trash of any hiring manager, but there are deeper things that require your attention.

One such thing is understanding the basic difference between a duty and an accomplishment.

A duty describes a responsibility you took on your shoulders and accomplishment demonstrates how well you did it.

For instance, being a sales manager and generating leads was your duty, but an accomplishment would be more like creating sales figures worth USD 500,000 within a month. Once you make out the basic difference between these, it’ll be much easier for you to list both of them under separate sections, a thing most recruiters look forward to, nowadays.

Giving Your Skills Set a Twirl

Gone are those days when the mention of all your skills alone would do the job. Today, employers look for much specific stuff.

What you need, is to recognize and mention skills that are pertinent to the job profile you are targeting.

In addition to this, volunteering is a great way to boost your resume too. Hence, don’t keep yourself from sharing any such experience you hold. This completely works in your favor, especially if you hold limited expertise in the field you want to shift to.

Be Crisp and Let The Numbers Talk

Nobody in this world has the time to invest some and go thoroughly, through a two-page resume. It’s scanning that’s prominent these days.

The need of the hour is to recognize the things that set you apart. For each section in your resume, try asking questions like what did you do beyond your normal job duties and what problems did you help to solve?

Once these are clear, paint a picture using facts, figures and numbers. These would any day vouch for your work efficiency in a much convincing way!

Get It Online and Connect With The Globe

You may deny it, but nearly all employers find their employee base through social media.

The moment you start navigating Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn for industry-specific communities, a cognizance with the reality will happen. So, be at the place most of the recruiters are and make your online profile visible.

Things might be endless to list. But, the hack lies in analyzing the most crucial ones. Hence, with a clear perspective in mind, just stick to the aforementioned. Give your resume a facelift and the ball will be in your court, before you say ‘resume’!

Author Bio:

Anshuman Kukreti is a professional writer and a keen follower of the global job market. An engineer by qualification and an artist at heart, he writes on various topics related to employment across the globe. Reach him @ LinkedIn, Twitter

June 15, 2016November 27, 2020

3 Mind Hacks That Will Make You Excel In Your Next Job Interview

Excel In Your Next Job Interview Using These 3 Mind Hacks

How to beat a job interview?

Use these 3 psychological mind hacks that will make you excel in your next job interview.

The interview environment creates natural fear in us all, these interview hacks will give you the power back, helping you to win more job offers and to increase your salary.

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Job Interview Mind Hack 1

It has been proven time and time again by a number of psychologist that interviewers respond better to people that they believe are like them.

Because we like people that are like us, you can use this to influence the job interview.

Rapport is built quickly if you have the same interest as the job interviewer (check the interviewers online profile and search their interest) if you are sync (copy body language, gestures and use a similar language) or if you share common ground (similar sounding name, live in the same location or wen to the same university).

Find something that will help the interviewer to naturally relate to you and the interviewer will find themselves naturally liking you, without knowing why.

Job Interview Mind Hack 2

Your body can influence your state.

The job is, for most, a horrid place to be. It creates the feeling of fear, despair and increase anxiety.

By changing your stance you change your emotions. Trust me this works!

First move around, jump, dance and stretch. This creates energy. Next strike a confidence pose; think of a famous person who you know is confident.

Imagine that you are this confident person and stand as they do. Take on their postures, gestures and stance. The way you stand creates different emotions. If you stand with confidence you will feel more confident.

Job Interview Mind Hack 3

This is an easy but underused one.

It is so common, due to terrible nervous feeling in your belly, not to eat or drink. The problem here is that when you get to the interview, your mind is focusing on “dinner time” not the interviewer.

Feed your body, feed your mind. You must eat, but just as important, you need to drink lots of water. Hydrate yourself and you will feel refreshed.

These 3 mind hacks are designed to get you into your best state to help you influence the job interview.

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June 10, 2016November 27, 2020

3 Things Not To Do After The Job Interview, Because It Will Stop You Getting The Job

3 Things Not To Do After The Job Interview

The job interview itself is hard, unnerving and scary.

The interview end, isn’t the end of it. Your actions now are just as important as your actions during the job interview.

Don’t mess up your chances of a job offer but making one of these 3 simple mistakes.

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Post Job Interview Mistake 1

Don’t add the interviewer on social media.

It is easy to think “hey, lets add the interviewer on facebook, we could become friends, go for drinks…and you could offer me the job” This is the worst of mistakes.

Not only do people forget who they have on facebook and its this forgetfulness that will get you into trouble. You or even a friend may post a damaging photo of you on a night out.

Even your friends opinions, which good be racist, sexist or plain rude can be associated with you. A drunken night out could end you chatting on a public forum about the horrid interviewer, or your potential boss may see from your timeline that you are applying for a better job.

Keep interviewers to the interview and your friends to facebook.

Post Job Interview Mistake 2

Waiting for the job offer

Most people are lazy. It takes most up to 3 months to even start applying for work “I will do it tomorrow “is the morning mantra. In worst, research has shown that on average an interviewee will spend only a total of 45 minutes preparing for the job interview – only 45 minutes for a task that could change your career and your life!!

Post job interview, the lazy interviewee will simply sit on their hands waiting for the job offer (that may never come) Never hold out for one job, apply for many, learn from interview mistakes, and practice, practice and practice.

Post Job Interview Mistake 3

Pester the hiring manager

It can be good practice to send a post interview thank you email (not always the best advice) Some take this to another level, sending flowers, chocolates as well as 25+ emails. Not only will this make you look a bit creepy but will annoy the interviewer.

Be confident in your interview delivery. The only post intervene task you should spend time on is your job interview self reflection and applying for new positions.