Are you Intrigued about using Hypnotic Language Patterns in Job Interviews?

 

The aim of the job interview is to get the employer to visualise you in their mind being successful why you are working for them, in this sense we need to take the employer inside themselves, creating a day dream state through the words you use in the job interview. Once they imagine you being a successful employee, they will get a gut feeling about you – “I know this is the guy for us, I don’t why but I just know”

By using hypnotic language patterns and VKA words (which you have learnt about in previous articles or from the influencing the interview book) you can create positives images for the employer to use.

 

• Common Interview Question: “what are your strengths?”

 

Interview Answer Embedded with NLP Hypnotic Language – 3 examples  

 

• “As a teacher my focus is on the pupil’s achievement and I know from my research that the school also has a focus on achievement and the pupils distance travelled. I use a mixture of learning styles to increase student achievements and in my last school I increased the achievement outcome by over 10% you can probably imagine me increasing your success rate using the same techniques. To answer your question I would say that my ability to use a mixture of learning styles, that you can see increase the results of your pupils, often by moving each student up a grade is a key strength of mine.”
• “A key strength of mine is my ability to plan and organise – I’m a details type of person, which is good because this position requires someone like me who loves accuracy, details and facts. You can imagine that I’m the type of employee that’s ensures precision, I am always told by previous employers “that every task I complete is always delivered to a high standard” if you want someone who dot’s the I’s and crosses the t’s and you feel that accuracy is important to you, then I can imagine us working well together, so overall my number one strength is my ability to deliver highly accurate work, in a planned and organised way”
• “Well, I’m a people’s person, when I meet people they feel a deep rapport building. I’m a great listener, people find it natural to like me, they don’t know why maybe because I am friendly and professional or it could be because I’m naturally good with others, but people just feel relaxed with me, which allows them to open up. You know, you just get a gut feeling about people sometimes, don’t you? Yes I would say my people and rapport building skills are my strengths”

 

 

 

The key for embedded commands and hypnotic interview language to work is for it to go unnoticed, so, how many hypnotic language patterns did you spot?  Unsure, click here to learn more:

 

 

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Can You Use NLP in Job Interviews?

 

I am often asked “can you use NLP in job interviews?” and the answer is YES! So many of my clients come to me because they know they have the skills, experience and qualifications to be an effective, proactive and professional employee, but like many others they can’t pass job interviews.

Some people are limited by their interview nervous and lack of confidence, others don’t know how to structure their interview answers and lack the knowledge of sales psychology to use the interview answer as an opportunity to sell themselves to the interviewer. I have met clients who know the basics of passing interviews but lack the ability to use the interview to influence the employer.

We would all agree that the interview is essentially a sales pitch and NLP can give you the upper hand in job interviews, but we have gone one step further. As well as using NLP, you can now learn how to use NLP, Psychology and Hypnotic Persuasion in job interviews.

The 73 Rules of Interview Influence – using Psychology, NLP and Hypnotic Persuasion, will give you the tools to stand out in job interviews, giving you the techniques to access Instant Confidence, while reducing your Interview Nerves. You will learn how to become an Industry Expert, making the employer see you as a valuable commodity.

You will learn the dark side of Sales Psychology, and how to Manipulate the Employer with NLP and Hypnotic Language Patterns. We have took the best from Psychology, NLP and Hypnotherapy and made it relevant to the job interview, giving you the power to kill the competition and to come out on top in these competitive times.

Can You Use NLP in Job Interviews – in the Influencing the Interview Book you will learn a vast amount of NLP techniques including

• Perceptual Positions
• Sub-modalities
• Logical Levels
• Fast Phobia Technique
• Milton Model Language Patterns

Remember, this is just a taste of the skills you will learn, as well as NLP you will how to use Psychology and Hypnotic Language Patterns

• Embedded Commands
• Yes Sets
• Re-frames
• Trance Work
• Language Patterns

So what to do next? Click the image below and ORDER YOUR BOOK NOW and see the difference this book will make in your next job interview. You are probably already imagining all the hundreds of ways the 73 rules of influencing the interview can be used in your next job interview. I will also let you in on a secret, you can use the same techniques in all the areas of your life from Attracting new Partners to gaining Promotions. From Increasing sales to getting people to Instantly fall under your power.

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How to Influence Interviews Using NLP

After working in the careers industry for many years I am shocked by how competitive each individual position is, with one national company recently had over 2000 applicants apply for a low-level position.

Job hunters have to step up their game and go above and beyond general interview techniques to win more job offers. One way to beat the competition is by using NLP to influence the job interview.

 

NLP is a great tool for influencing job interviews, as NLP isn’t just one technique it composes of a mixture of techniques that you can pull out of the bag when required and today I will share several of these techniques with you.

Rapport Building with Employers 

Building good rapport is essential in the job interview as employers offer more jobs to people they like, in many cases with interviewers offering positions to people they like over more experienced applicants.

 To gain rapport first find common ground with the interviewer, while the interviewer is having the initial chat with you designed to calm down nervous interviewees you can probe for what you have in common and then use this common ground to increase rapport. We have all heard candidates being picked because they wore the “old school tie”

We all communicate differently; the reason for this is due to the way we take in the information around us. Simply put we have a preference to one of our senses even though we use them all; auditory, visual or kinaesthetic. An interviewer will talk using words relating to their preferred sense which means to communicate effectively you can use their words to ensure your message sinks in.  

• Visual people will us words such as; sight, see, picture, imagine, view
• Auditory people will use words such as; hear, sound, clear as a bell,
• Kinaesthetic people will use words such as; feel, touch, hard, warmth

 You will realise the importance of using the interviewer’s language when you next try to get a point across to someone who just doesn’t understand what you mean. When this happens change your words to match their representational system and notice how they see things as clear as day.

 The Employers Point of View

To win job offers you need to prepare. Where most people fail though is by not looking at the interview from the employer’s point of view. Instead of just memorizing your interview answers use your imagination to play out the interview from the employers viewpoint – imagine you as the employer interviewing yourself, notice how you sit, notice your posture and become aware of everything that makes up the employers impression of you – how well do you answer questions, do you sound confident, do your answers ring true? Do you as the employer get a good feeling about the interviewee? What is your first gut feeling? Do you feel warm or cold towards this person? Use this inside knowledge to improve your interview techniques, look for both your strength and your areas of development.

 Confidence in a Job Interview 

 To win any job interview you need to feel confident. At an interview, you need to be able to access confidence in a few seconds. A great way to access confidence is by using an NLP anchor, an NLP anchor will allow you to trigger as positive emotion such as confidence when required.  

To build a trigger, I want you to think about 5 past events or activities when you felt really confident. In your mind I want you to play out each event as if you are there now – seeing the event from your own eyes, as you play out this movie turn up the sound and make the picture bigger and brighter until you feel fully associated with it.

As you do this, you start to relive that positive feeling, let the confidence feeling grow stronger and stronger in your body until it’s at its peak and then squeeze your finger and thumb together as you do this imagine all the confidence from around your body rushing towards the squeezed fingers at the speed of light.

Do this with all 5 past activities. Afterward, test your trigger by squeezing your finger and thumb together, if it has been successful you should feel confident as soon as your squeezed fingers touch. Now you can use this trigger to access a confident feeling just before your job interview.

This is just a quick sample of how NLP can be used in job interviews but to really master influencing the interview, you can read the new book The 73 rules for influencing the interview using psychology, NLP and hypnotic persuasion techniques.

 

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NLP – Sleight of Mouth Patterns (SOMP)

People constantly live with limited self-beliefs, stopping them from moving forward with their lives, in the worst-case scenarios these limiting beliefs can turn into depression. SOMP help you reframe a person’s belief, the 14 SOMP patterns can be used in conversation to help give the client a new perspective without the client feel like they are in a coaching or canceling session. A SOMP doesn’t always resolve the problem but helps soften up the problem to make change easier. Some SOMP patterns can seem harsh or callous, which means you need to pick the right patterns for each client – you don’t need to use all 14 patterns on each client.

Limit the Limiting Beliefs

Beliefs define the relationship between a client’s value and their causes, indicators and consequences. Beliefs are typically expressed in the form of

Complex equivalence (A “equals”, “is, “is equivalent to” or “means” B)

Cause-effect (A “causes (because)”, “makes”, “leads to”, “produces”, “results in” B).

As an example, clients limiting belief maybe “I can’t lose weight because I don’t have willpower” (cause and effect)

Sleight of Mouth Pattern Examples

Redefine; change the representation of the belief  

• What other meaning could the equation have?

Example SOMP Question or Statement: so what you are trying to say is that you don’t have the will power to lose weight but you can change your diet and eat healthier food

Consequence; consequences that can change beliefs

• What will happen to them if they continue to think this way?

Example SOMP Question or Statement: the longer you leave it the less willpower you will have

Intention; what is the positive intention?

• Why are they saying this?
• What is the secondary gain?
• What are they trying to get?

Example SOMP Question or Statement: it can be scary stopping a habit you have had for a while and we both agree it’s worth it to look great on your wedding day

Chunk Down; specific elements

• What specifically?
• What are examples of this?
• What are parts of this?

Example SOMP Question or Statement:  what will give you the will power?

Chunk Up; generalisations

• For what purpose?
• What’s important about this?
• Exaggerate.

Example SOMP Question or Statement: overweight people are always unhappy   

Counter Example; exceptions that challenge generalization

• Invert the belief.
• Make into a universal statement or question
• A causes B, not B causes not A.

Example SOMP Question or Statement: we have all met people who say they can’t lose weight and then do

Another Outcome; propose a different outcome

• What is another outcome you could shift to?

Example SOMP Question or Statement: the issue isn’t that willpower can win, it’s about you giving dieting a chance

Metaphor/Analogy; Use an analogy or metaphor that challenges the generalization defined by the belief

• What story will relate to their belief?
• Tell a metaphor or story about the solution.

Example SOMP Question or Statement: I adopted an overweight dog once that I believed would never lose weight, we started taking the dog on small walks and change his diet to a healthy diet, it was only a small thing really but before we do it the dog had lost loads of weight. The funny thing was we were told my the dog adoption shelter that the dog due to it’s bad health would only live for 12 months, but now 3 years later he is healthy and full of life.

Apply to Self; use key aspects of the belief to change the belief

• Don’t think about it; just use the word back on itself.

Example SOMP Question or Statement: you can’t lose weight until you believe you have the willpower to lose weight

Hierarchy of Criteria (Values) Re-assess the belief based on a more important criterion.

• What is a higher criteria (values)?
• Apply current criterion (value) to current sentence.

Example SOMP Question or Statement: isn’t it more important to think about your health than your weight

Change Frame Size; Re-evaluate the implication of the belief in the context of a longer (or shorter) time frame, a larger or shorter number of people (or from an individual point of view) or a bigger or smaller perspective.

• Something (larger or smaller) they haven’t noticed.
• Different frame, same behavior.
• Chunk up to Universal Quantifier.

Example SOMP Question or Statement: losing weight will give you a longer life….to spend with your grandchildren

Meta Frame; change the basis of the belief

• How is it possible they could believe that?

Example SOMP Question or Statement: you can’t lose weight but can’t you eat less food each day?

Model of the World; look at the belief from a different perspective

• Switch Referential Index.
• Is this true in everyone’s Model of the World?

Example SOMP Question or Statement: beating will power is telling yourself you do it

Reality Strategy; Re-assess the belief based on the fact that beliefs are based on specific perceptions

• How do they represent that belief?
• How do they/you know if it’s not true?
• Apply current criterion (value) to current sentence.

Example SOMP Question or Statement: how do you know willpower not laziness is stopping you from losing weight?

Ask we discussed one SOMP question or statement will not always change the persons belief, but what it will do is weaken the belief, allowing your client to have a change of focus, with this change we can work with the client to move them forward.

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How to get out of any argument or disagreement with your boss, manager and colleagues

 

 

One of the most common asked questions I receive is how to get out of an argument or disagreement with a manger or boss. I agree this can be a tricky situation as you can automatically feel accused and respond with a defensive answer which often leads to a disagreement with your manger.

What you need to learn is how to turn the accusation back on itself in one simple line.

How to get Out of General Disagreements

 

This simple NLP technique will not only get you out of a disagreement but will make you look good in the process by making your manager respond to your questions. First let’s look at what causes disagreements:

 

Generally your manager or boss will accuse you of something without knowing all the facts, which leads to a general accusation “everyone feels you are not pulling your weight” when feeling accused, we will often defend ourselves which makes us look guilty “but, I work really hard” after a few exchanges, with you the employee feeling more and more defensive this accusation has turned into a full blown argument

 

When accused by your manger and they use a “general” statement, don’t get defensive, get specific and get the details, this way the manger has to give you evidence “who exactly said I’m not pulling my weight?” “well, erm..Tom and Dave” “Ok so, two people said I’m not pulling my weight..” this is a big difference then the original – everyone “and which task did I not pull my weight on?” “erm, I’m not sure really…” now the manger is backed in a corner, while you have remain professional and calm.

 

How to get out of Accusation

 

In some cases your manger or boss may say a damaging statement to put you down, in many cases this may be more specific then the “general” example above which means you need a different approach, a different frame.

 

By re-framing (as we say in NLP) you can put a different and more positive approach on any accusation. My friend recently said to me she felt down after putting on some extra weight after eating too much cake at her child’s birthday party, which I replied with “so, what your saying is the extra cake you ate is a sign that you had fun and were enjoying yourself at your child’s party?”

 

This technique can be easily used with your boss, when given a damaging statement in an appraisal, meeting, promotional job interview or just in the office or on the shop floor.  It doesn’t matter what you are accused off, it’s how you respond and reframe the question that is important

 

Let’s look at these recent real life examples from my career coaching clients and the responses they used

 

• Promotional Interview “you’re not very creative” Interviewee Response “so, what you’re saying if I show you a creative suggestion you will be interested?”
• Negative Manager “why do you never understand what I mean?” Employee “so, what you mean is, if I summaries what you have asked me to do after each instruction, you will know that I understand you”
• Negative colleague “why are you always late?” you “are you asking what has happened in my private life, to make me late for the past few days?”

By turning the question around and getting specific means your manager has to agree or answer your question; with the first question (creative) the interviewer can only agree with you or look stupid. The second question (negative manager) here you have changed the question, its no longer about you not understanding it is about you confirming your understanding and the third example, the negative colleague (lateness) the rude colleague will first feel embarrassed but the conversation has moved from you being late to the reason why, which you can reply with “I cant talk about it now, but I might discuss it with you later” this final line, stops the colleague asking any more probing questions.

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