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An Interview with the Author of The 73 Rules for Influencing the Interview

 An Interview with the Author of The 73 Rules for Influencing the Interview 

Hello Chris, and thank you for joining me today. I must say the title of your book is very intriguing, but before we discussed your new book can you tell our readers where are you from?

Hi, and thank you for inviting me down. I was born and bred in Manchester UK and still live their today.

And what is your background?

I have always been interested in helping people and my background is in employment training and careers advice. I get a real buzz from helping people make positive choices that can change their lives. In more recent years I have moved into the coaching and hypnotherapy industry.

That’s really interesting, do you have much success?

Yes, you know I surprise myself sometimes. I get clients who come in with a life long phobia and within an hour they are cured, it’s quite amazing really. I love to see their surprised faces when they look at a spider after the session and they don’t feel the need to run away.

And more recently you have written an interview book – the 73 rules for influencing the interview using psychology, nlp and hypnotic persuasion techniques. I really like the line hypnotic persuasion techniques. What does this book teach the reader?

The book is designed to give the interviewee the upper hand in the job interview, you will learn 73 new rules to gain more job offers. It’s not the general tips you normally read like “wear a smart suit” these tips are a bit outdated, this book will teach you how to use psychology to get the employer to like you, to want you and at the best to desire you.  

Are you saying you can actually hypnotise the interview using hypnotic persuasion techniques?

I don’t advice readers to pull out a gold watch and swing from side to side saying “employ me, employ me” but you can use certain words to get the interviewer to think about you in a certain way.

To get them to like you?

Well yes, but more then that you want the employer to imagine you being successful while working for them. This way the employer will get that gut feeling about you – they will want to hire you but they won’t know why.

 

OK so you can create desire and want?

Yes, you have to remember that most interviewers interview all day and they often forget who said what, but you can influence how they feel about you, so that when they re-read your name on the application list they remember thinking that you would really fit in, or that you were the one interviewee who would add value to the team.

So you can become needed?

More then that, these days the interviewee needs to become irresistible, make the employer believe that they have to hire you or they will miss out.

What if the interview, through first impressions doesn’t like you?

This is a big barrier for many nervous interviewees, the book using the fast phobia cure can boost the readers interview confidence and teaches the psychology of making a first impression..

The book will actually cure someone’s phobia of interviews?

Yes, that bits pretty easy. But even better you will learn how to reframe the interviewer opinion of you through the way you phrase your answer.

This all sounds fascinating, is there a message in your book that you want readers to grasp?

Yes, I would say that the old saying is true that practice makes perfect don’t just read this book, practice the techniques before you attend the interview this way you will perform at your best.

It’s been fascinating talking to you, you remind me a little of Derren Brown. Can you tell our readers where they can buy the book from?

Thank you what a great compliment, I might have to grow a goatee! The book is available at all good books shops and on Amazon. Or on my company website www.employmentking.co.uk 

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No Internship, No Job

No Internship, No Job

 

Competition for jobs is at an all time high, with applicants applying for positions from across the globe. Three factors effect each job application; Personality, Qualifications and Experience. With a friendly and professional personality in the bag and a list of qualifications behind you the graduate now needs an internship to gain that all important foot in the door through experience. Opportunities seem vast, but what is unseen is the high calibre competition applying for the same paid position you are, these job hunters has one major advantage over the young graduate and that is experience – proof to the employer that they have what it takes to get results in their particular job sector.

 

By gaining experience through an unpaid internship will give you the advantage later over other newly qualified graduates. There is nothing wrong with applying for both internship and paid opportunities at the same time, but to fail to land an internship will be the death of your job application because experience is king in the interview. Don’t fall into the trap of holding out for only a paid position because the employer has the upper hand, a vast amount of experience and qualified applicants. What you, the job hunter need to do, is to stand out in the job interview by highlighting how you can add value to that organisation and this can only be achieved by showing the employer the results you have achieved in previous positions and internships.

 

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The 5 Best Tips to Get an Standing Ovation from a speech

The 5 Best Tips to Get an Standing Ovation from a speech

 

For most giving a speech is one of the most terrifying tasks they have to perform, with many people actually having a phobic reaction to speaking in public. But don’t be afraid with the right advice you can boost your confidence and deliver a funny, exciting and insightful speech. And once you have received your first standing obviation, you will be hooked – delivering speeches on a weekly basis. These 5 tips will give you the winning formula for delivering a perfect speech.

Athletic Visualisation – with the recent London Olympics, we have seen amazing athletes deliver spectacular performances. This is achieved through positive visualisation. The same technique is used by the best toastmasters; they don’t stand behind the curtain waiting to be called out on stage, visualising how bad they will perform, thinking about everything that can go wrong. No, instead they will visualise themselves, giving the best speech, receiving an amazing response and feeling great when being on stage. Your mind does not know what is real, if you imagine you’re on stage performing at your best your subconscious will remember this imagine event as real, so next time you’re on stage your mind will remind you of how you felt when you delivered your last great speech.

Repetition is The Key to Mastering Any Skill – nervous speakers with low self esteem, will often only go through their speech once or twice. With their nerves on edge, they are all too often afraid to practice in front of friends and family not wanting to receive any criticism that will affect their real speech. But we all know, that the more your practice the better you become. Confident speakers will practice, practice and practice – they want to make mistakes, so they can get feedback to improve their delivery style. They will practice their speech in the shower, on the train, in front of family and friends and constantly seek out people’s real opinions so they can be the best speaker they can be

Engaging the Crowd – we have all sat through boring talks, presentations and speeches. But we do some speakers capture the audience’s attention while others just turn the crowd to sleep? Confidence and practice is always the key, but you can get the audience involved. Ask them questions, make them compete a small task, add humour, use props. Talk with words and your body language. Don’t stand still move about, use your voice to change the audience’s emotions and gain excitement by creating intrigue. Don’t fall into the trap of just reading a list of points, make the audience want to hear what you are going to say.

Waking up the Sleeping Baby – if for some reason you start to lose the audience, create intrigue this way they will want to hear what you have to say “in a second i’m going to share with you the secret I have used to make a million pound, now when I tell you this you have to promise not to share it with anyone..” You can also make the audience listen more intently by stating, “Ok listen to this because in a second I’m going to come down into the crowd and ask one of you a question” no no-one wants to look silly, so if you have frightened to ask one of the audience members a question, everyone is going start to listen.

End as you Began – a good way to start your speech is with a real life story, as the story progresses creating intrigue you move on to your main topic which means you haven’t ended the story. The audience will be waiting for you to get back to the story, which means there listening more intently to your speech. Towards the end of your speech, once you have covered your main points, you return to the story and end it (the story is often a metaphor that represents the topic of the speech) “as, I was saying, dave…..”

For any speech to be successful you need to practice, practice and practice – this will boost your confidence, once confident you are more likely to naturally move around the stage using your gestures as well as words to communicate. Create intrigue and add humour, and practice ways of getting a bored audience back interested in you.

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Career Coaching Manchester

 

Career Coaching Manchester

 

 

Career Coaching

Expert Careers coaching and Advice is essential to help you maximise your career potential and to use your skills, experience and qualifications to gain a career that you will succeed in.

  • Have you ever wondered why you haven’t got the job you really wanted?
  • Do you know how to sell your skills and qualities to an employer?
  • Have you ever-explored other careers that match your skills, qualities and personality?

 

At Employment King the focus is on YOU! We give individual tailored careers coaching advice. First we will look at what you have been doing to gain employment or a career promotion, and ask what can we improve? What can we do different? If something isn’t working lets change it.

First I want you to ask yourself

     

  • What motivates me?
  • What do I really want to achieve?
  • How do I want to be seen by others?
  • Do I have a good work-life balance?
  • What is really important to me, in my life?

 

As well as gaining information on careers, we at Employment King believe it is important to look at people’s values and beliefs as your values and beliefs are the principles that guide your life.

     

  • Do you know what your next step up the career ladder should be?
  • Do you know what type of Career suits your Personality?

 

Our personality type profile will allow you to understand your personality and how you can motivate yourself. It also helps you build self-awareness and gives examples of the type of job roles that you would excel in.

Unemployed? Looking for a new career?

     

  • Do you find job adverts you would like to apply for?
  • Does your CV and/or Application forms gain you job interviews?
  • Do you gain job offers from interviews?

 

Already you may be gaining more awareness of the reasons you are missing out on job opportunities. If one of these steps is stopping you gaining employment, then Employment King can help you overcome this barrier and help you move forward towards your career goal.

Looking to develop yourself in your current company?

     

  • Are you earning the wage you deserve?
  • Has your manager noticed your skills and talents?
  • Do you find your job exciting?
  • Do colleagues or competitive companies know off you?
  • Have you ever turned job offers down?
  • Have you answered “No” to any of these questions?

 

If so you may have worried that you are not the suitable for your current job role, this often is not the case. In most cases people have the skills and qualities needed to move up the career ladder but don’t know how to promote these to an employer. At Employment King we believe our role is to help you recognise your strengths, abilities and career goals. We can help you change, and change is easier then you think.
 

 Telephone Careers Sessions £44.99

E-mail info@employmentking.co.uk with your contact number, brief outline of your query and times when you would be available to talk. One of our career coaches will telephone you back at a time convenient to yourself for a career coaching session lasting around 60 minutes.

Face to Face Careers Sessions £79.99 (Greater Manchester Only)

If you live in Greater Manchester you can meet one of our careers advisors face to face for a 90 minute careers coaching session. To book an appointment E-mail info@employmentking.co.uk

3 Face-to-face Coaching Sessions £180 (Greater Manchester Only) SAVE Over £59.99 

If you live in Greater Manchester you can meet one of our careers advisors face to face for 3 X 90 minute careers coaching session. To book an appointment E-mail info@employmentking.co.uk

 

 

 

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How to Build Confidence

How to Build Confidence

 

Can you just Build Confidence? Do you find that in some circumstances you are extremely confident, maybe when your with friends and family or just when your with strangers you lack all motivation. For many this lack of confidence can come on when at work, performing on stage, giving presentations and talking to strangers.

 

Build Confidence

 

This quick technique, will highlight how easy it is to increase confidence in 5 easy steps. To increase your confidence book an NLP Confidence Coach session.

  1. Think of a time that you felt really confident, we all feel confident at one time or another, you may be confident at work, you may confident with your friends or maybe your confident at a daily task like brushing your teeth. What are you confident at? imagine you were confident right now, how does confidence feel to you?
  2. As you remember feeling confident, you will start to feel confident. Think about this confident feeling, where in your body does this feeling of confidence start from? In your stomach, in your feet, in your head? think about your feeling of confidence – where does the feeling start in your body?
  3. Imagine you could see your confident feeling, what colour is your feeling of confidence? make this feeling brighter and stronger
  4. Does your confident feeling, feel hot or cold? double the temperature of your confident feeling
  5. In what direction does your feeling spin in? When you feel confident the feeling will spin in one direction or enough, what direction does your spinning confident feeling spin in? spin it faster and faster
  6. How much more confident do you feel now?

This quick simple technique is one example of how you can feel more confident whenever you want to, I agree this technique is powerful, but what if you could access confidence anytime you needed it, how would that alter the future of your life? Find out with an NLP Life Coach

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Excuses for Time Off Work

Excuses for Time Off Work

 

Asking your boss for time off can be a tricky a situation. Employers hate to let you have more time off then the allocated 4 weeks a year, even though recent studies show that employees with a positive work/life perform better which can only increase profit. Most employees believe they need excuses for time of work, but an even better approach is using interview psychology.

There are 3 key reasons why employees don’t get time off work:

 

 

1. Asking when the boss is busy. Many employees are nervous when asking their boss for time and think it will be easier and quicker to ask their both while they are walking to a meeting and bothered by some other time consuming task. But when flustered your boss doesn’t want to have to think about re-arranging your schedule, informing HR, etc as they have other things on their mind, so they answer with a quick “no”

Always plan your timing and ask your boss for a 5 minute meeting, whenever they are next free. This way the meeting is about you – nothing else will get in the way.

2. Asking with no reason. Many people will just ask for the time off without giving a reason, in some cases this is because they don’t want to tell their boss that they need a break. But we respond more positive to people who give us a reason “can I take 2 weeks of next week because…” always back your request with a reason why, as
studies have shown that people are more like to reply positive to your request when heard with an explanation why.

3. Not Getting on with the boss. In employment, employers should follow equal opportunity laws, but often if your boss likes you, they are more willing to give you time off. To get the employer to like you, all you need to do is make time each day to ask how your boss is; ask about their family, weekend, anything really just to show you are interested in them. Do theme a favour; when buying yourself a coke, buy them a coke and say “I know your busy so I thought I’d get you this while I got myself one – you have to keep hydrated you know!” and smile, people like happy, smiley and positive people. Become a friendly and professional person and your boss will have an automatic associate liking to you.

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Self Esteem and Confidence Course

Coach Yourself – Online Coaching Course

For Self Esteem and Confidence 

Interactive activities; Videos, Presentations, E-book and Audios

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I recently met a young lady named Michelle with low self esteem, who was waking up each morning feeling depressed and desperate, to the point where she had stopped going to work and stopped going out with her friends, she felt at the top of the downward spiral. Michelle told me she had no self belief and would often tell herself “I’m a horrid person who will fail at everything I try, people just don’t like me” it was this limiting belief that was stopping Michelle from moving forward with her life.

 

Do you ever feel like this, sad, lonely or depressed? Do you ever give yourself any negative self talk that’s stops you achieving your goals? I told Michelle about the wide range of help she could receive from counselling to life coaching, she replied “I know a life coach can help me, but I can’t afford the hourly sessions!”

    • Ask yourself on a scale between1-10, with one representing your life is at an all time low and ten representing your life at its best; where on the scale would you place your life today?

    • Where on the scale do you want to be? Pick a number

    • What need to happen for you to move towards that higher number on the scale?

Because I know Life Coaching is value for money, I often ask myself “how much would you pay to have a more fulfilled life? What price would you pay to achieve your goals?” But, I have never thought about the people who need coaching sessions to make life changing decisions, but can’t afford one-to-one life coaching sessions.

Because I know anyone can achieve anything that they want to do, I gave myself a new goal “how can I offer affordable life coaching sessions to people who want to make real changes but cant afford face to face coaching sessions” after first thinking about offering discounted session, I realised after a couple of discounted sessions the cost would still add up and then it hit me, people can coach themselves as long as they have the tools – as I coach myself everyday.

    • The interactive online coaching course will give you over 36 coaching sessions to put you back in control of your life

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Coaching sessions often cost between £50-£500 a session and many people will want 4-5 life coaching sessions; there are many advantages from having face to face coaching sessions but you know there are disadvantages too; limited sessions which means limited techniques, you can achieve one goal with face to face coaching sessions, but you will have more than one goal throughout our life which means you can re-use the online coaching course as much as you want throughout your life

The big advantages of an online coaching course are:

    • Having access to a wider range of tools and life coaching techniques

    • You will have a mixture of coaching session styles; e-book activities, videos, presentations and audios

    • Imagine being able to reuse session and techniques that I will teach you, which limits the problem of forgetting what happened in a face-to-face session

    • The activities can be used again and again, building on top of your confidence and achievements

    • You can share the course with other people, getting real value for money (some people share the course which means they can share the cost)

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The truth is, I can give you more tools, techniques and exercise to help you get away from the pain you feel about your current life and limiting beliefs and to help you achieve your goals, to be more successful and really believe in yourself, by offering the large online coaching course material which is full of MORE interactive activities than you would get from several face to face sessions.

    • Imagine you could build up your self esteem and confidence, picture yourself right now, achieving all your goals and making real changes to your life, make this image big and colourful. If you had the courage to make a life changing decisions now – what would be your first decision be to give you a better life? What changes would you make today? See yourself making these positive changes now.

By now, you know you want to make a change with your life which means you first have to make the decision to change – don’t just say I want a great life, you have to put yourself out there and change your life, you need to be committed, make the commitment now by ordering the online coaching course and I would add you need to use the techniques I will teach you that I use to get real results for my professional coaching clients .

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It won’t always be easy, when you learnt to ride your bicycle for the first time, you probably fell off the bike a couple of times and then on a certain day it all came together you could ride the bike on your own, without the help of a parent holding the seat, remember how good it felt to be in control, to ride in any direction you wanted to? Coaching is the same; you will be given the tools to ride through your own life, after a couple of sessions, you will take the life stabilisers off your bike and feel free and in control of where you want to go. You might fall off the coaching bike but all you have to do is get up, brush the dirt of your pants and get back on the bike.

So, what do you get as part of this great deal?

    • Over 100 pages and 36 e-coaching sessions, including:

    • 25 e-coaching techniques

    • 5 videos

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    • Over 3 presentations and audios

    • In addition you will receive an individual 12 page personality type e-book document

    • FREE BONUS – Phobia Removal Session

The online coaching course has been design using all the interactive successful techniques the most famous coach’s use and we have improved these techniques which means you will achieve your goals quicker than before. Let me ask you this, how will the online coaching course help you?

    • Learn how to be in control of your life

    • Make better decisions

    • Set yourself real goals and learn how to achieve them

    • Learn how to reduce negative self talk

    • Access instant confidence whenever you need to

    • Feel good about yourself everyday

    • Gain self belief

    • Eliminate phobia, fears and negative emotions

    • Truly understand yourself and become the best you can be

In addition you will:

    • Understand how your body and mind work as one

    • Discover how your minds filter information which leads to your decision making process and motivation strategy

    • Learn how your personality type can help you achieve your goals

    • Gain a coaching diary to monitor your progress and record your success

The online coaching course is completely interactive and will make a real difference in your life, if you continue to do what you have been doing for years you will carry on getting the same results, if you do something different you will get a different result. Ask yourself what can I do differently?

    • You can probably already think of hundreds of ways the online coaching course can help you succeed in your life, your career and your future

For a real change you need to complete all the online coaching course activities, don’t just read them and doing nothing, absorb the information, take onboard the lessons you are learning and enjoy the outcome to the new changes you are making. You can use the online coaching course to improve all areas of your life

    • Build new Confidence

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  • My Pain and My Pleasure
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  • Finding Happiness
  • Picture Plan – presentation
  • What Do You Like About Me?
  • Eliminatin Negative Voices – audio
  • Daily Diary
  • The Future You
  • Picture Confidence – audio
  • Picture Frame – audio
  • How We View the World
  • Changing your Beliefs
  • Miracle Question – audio
  • What are your Limiting Beliefs?
  • Reframing your Negative Beliefs – presentation
  • Life on a Timeline
  • Timeline – video
  • Timelines; Destroying Bad Decisions
  • Your Imagination – audio
  • Image Board
  • Is there a Positive Intent? – video
  • Are You Unconsciously Competent?
  • Donut; is the taste in the jam?
  • Dancing your Problems Away
  • Scaling
  • What’s Your Mission
  • Metaphor Story – audio
  • Success; where to find it
  • Your Personality; Faults and Gains
  • Commitment Card – presentation
  • Spinning – Video
  • Finding Role Models
  • Life from a Different View – Video
  • Spinning – Video
  • The Wheel Keeps Turning
  • Your Next New Goal
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You will receive different segments of the e-course every couple of days throughout a 3 month period, giving you the time to complete the e-coaching activities and check what you have already learnt. We have purposefully not sent you the whole course in one go as the course content is massive and this would be an information overload, the course is sent to you in a certain order to keep building on the activities and the success they will bring, giving you time to take in all the new learning you are gaining.

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Scaling Your Interview

Scaling Your Interview

 

Scaling is a technique taken from the ‘solution focus’ therapy and as you are about to learn they can be used as part of your interview preparation which means you can perform at your best at your next interview. Job

 

1–2—3—4—5—6—7—8—9–10

 

The following set of questions are simple which means they are highly effective, I often use the following scaling questions with all my interview coaching clients as they gain really positive results, seeing changes in just one session. By looking at your interview on a scale you have the advantage of visualising yourself from a different perspective, allowing you to find the solutions to your interview problems and barriers.

 

While answering the scaling questions, record your answers on the scaling sheet and review these once you have completed this exercise.

 

First print of the scale; on a scale of 1-10, think about your interview skills; your confidence, your answers, your preparation, the way you look, your voice, the handshake you give, the initial impression you make – everything that you do during the interview; with ten representing you at your best and one representing you at your worst, where on the scale are you today? Draw a circle around the number that represents you.

 

  • What is happening now for you to be that number?
  • Are you happy to stay at the number you are on today? Why?
  • Where would you realistically like to be before your next interview?
  • Have you ever been lower down the scale? (draw a circle around the number that represented you) How did you stop yourself going future down the scale?
  • Where were you on the scale at your last interview? (draw a circle around the number that represented you)
  • Have you ever been higher up the scale? (draw a circle around the number that represented you) What were you doing differently when you were higher up the scale?
  • What number higher up the scale would you like to be on? (draw a circle around the number that represented you)
  • How will you know when you have reached a higher number – what will be happening?

 

  • What do you need to do, research, practice to move up the scale?
  • What do you need to do, to move one more number higher up the scale?
  • What can stop you from sliding further down the scale?
  • What lessons have you learnt, that will be useful now from being further up or lower down the scale?
  • What else can help you move up the scale?

 

 

This is a great exercise to start your interview preparation that is easily learnt. Come back to the technique after each job interview and compare where you are on the scale compared to previous times. Many clients complete this exercise when they know they have had a bad interview, but I like to use the scale after a good interview this way I KNOW what I need to do to perform at my best.

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Influencing the Interview Coures

Influencing the Interview Course 

 

 

Do you know your employable, with tons of experience, qualifications and required skills – but for some unknown reason you cant secure job offers from job interviews. Competition for jobs is at an all time high, with thousands of people applying for the same position, which means you need to go above and beyond the interviewees by highlighting your added value, showing your expertise and using influencing techniques.

Advanced Interview Training Course

 

On the advanced interview training course you will learn how to use Psychology, NLP and Hypnotic Persuasion techniques in the job interview, intrigued? You should just think about the hundreds of ways you can use these specialist techniques to command job offers. We are the only organisation who has took techniques from psychology, NLP and hypnosis and applied it to the job interview situation

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Advanced Interview Training Course

 

For those of you who have missed out due to the course popularity, or for those of you who need to learn how to use hypnosis, nlp, manipulation and persuasion in the job interview now, you can buy the book that has took the course content to the next level

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Psychology in Job Interviews: Turn Your Interviewer Into Your Puppet

Psychology in Job Interviews: Turn Your Interviewer Into Your Puppet 

 

Psychology is the study of the human mind and human behavior, which means if you understood the psychology of job interviews you would be offered more jobs BECAUSE you will turn your interviewer into your puppet. Imagine you new how to influence the job interview; psychological interview tips will teach how to control the interviewer, how make them dance to your tune and how to get any job you want – no wonder employers don’t want you to know these dangerous techniques.

The following psychology techniques will give you the edge of other interview applicants. Be aware these techniques are not for the faint harted, they will get you more job offers but kill your conscience.

 

7 Psychological Interview Techniques – Take Control of Your Interviewer

 

It Only Takes Second to Make an Impression

 

 

 

We are hard wired to stereotype. When you first meet someone or when the interviewer first see you, your unconscious quickly processes everything you see and hear in a matter of seconds, and puts you into a category. This is why you need to look smart and act confident because in the first 10 seconds the interviewer will decide if they like you or not! Throughout the interviewer they will filter your interview answers with their “like” or “dislike” filters. And we all know once you have decided to dislike someone it is hard for that person to change their mind, this is because the interviewer will look for evidence to back up your initial opinion.

For example, if you meet your friends boss, and you initial think that’s he’s a bit of a flirt before he even opens his mouth, you will start to look for signs that he is a flirt and you will take what he say’s and ask “did he say that because he’s a flirt?” We don’t like to be wrong, so humans will look for evidence to back up our opinions.

 

Don’t Fake It

 

 

 

Smiling can increase likeability, but unconsciously we know if your smile is real or fake and once your fake smile has been uncovered the interviewer will have a less favorable opinion of you.

To create a real smile, remember a time that you went to a party and seen an old friend that you haven’t seen for many years. Imagine you were there now, and see the friend from your own eyes, see what you can see, hear what you can hear and feel how you felt. Your smile will automatically come to your face, and it this true smile that you want to show to the interviewer.

 

Control the Way People Perceive You. 

 

 

People like happy, confident and bubbly people. To come across this way all you need to do is smile. Have you ever seen a baby smile? It’s hard to resist, if the baby smiles, you want to smile, don’t you? Your probably already smiling now just at the thought of a baby smile. Confident people talk with their hands and are open at using facial expressions, because this is a natural way for us to communicate. Being friendly, open, smiley and happy will have a positive psychological impact on your interviewer.

 

Big Heads Will Only Fall Over 

 

 

 

We all hate bigheads and show off’s. So if you’re the type of interviewee who likes to show off, say good bye to the job offer. In the job interview you need to associate yourself with positively and good emotions. By praising the company, complimenting the interviewer and generally showing enthusiasm the interviewer will associate you with the good feelings they are having, as the praise will make the interviewer feel good, as they feel good they associate this emotion with you, saying “I like this guy, I have  a great gut feeling about him”

 

The Athletic Interview

 

 

 

Top athletes, as we seen at the recent London Olympics are performing at there best through the technique of visualisation. As explained in the influencing the interview book, using mental imagery will boost your performance. Athletes will visulise themselves performing at their optimum, being successful and winning their race.   Interviewees can also use this techniques to become more confident, to perform at there best and to overcome any hurdles, by visualizing themselves winning job interviews. Your subconscious doesn’t know the difference between a real experience and an imagine experience which is why dreams are so powerful, you sometimes wake up and don’t if the dream was real or not. This means that your memory will remember feeling positive at a job interview, so next time you attend a real job interview you will automatically remember these confident interview feelings.

 

Story Time, Not Snorey Time 

 

 

 

We have story telling embedded into our consciousness, at primary school we are told stories and metaphors as part of our learning process. In the days gone by, man sat around camp fires shared wisdom through the use of stories. So it is obvious that we all like stories and if you can add a bit of suspense to your interview answer story you will grip the listener – the interviewer.

 

Language That Influences

 

 

 

We all take in information differently through our senses (Visual, kinesthetic or Auditory) Through brain scans we have seen that a visual person will have a large visual lobe then say a auditory person. People will tell you how they process information vie the words they use visual people will use words such as see, visualize, sight, observe, picture. Kinesthetic will use words including get a grip, touch, grasp, cold, gut feeling and auditory people may use the following words hear, sound, louder, tune, that rings a bell. If you use the words the employer filters information with then your answers will be more understood.

Evidence has highlighted that interviewers will forget a large amount of the information given by the interviewer, with some interviewers believing one interviewee said one thing when in reality of different interviewee said it. Two interviewers who interview the same person at the same time, will compare notes only to find that their answers and opinions of the person vary – this means you need to ensure that throughout your interview, your interview answer, your key selling points need to be fully understood by the interviewer and this is the key goal of any interviewee.

 

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