How to Get in a Winning Mood For Your Job Interview
Doesn’t it make sense to prepare yourself mentally as well for your job interview?
Having that inner confidence and poise will shine through to the interviewer when you walk in that door and give you even more of an advantage over all of your competitors.
If you are nervous, this will show in your body language and your speech reducing the chances of being offered the job role.
Confidence comes form mental preparation. If an interview was a race, the mental preparation would be the pre-race ‘warm up’
1. Fake it till you make it
Act confident and you will be confident.
Just by imagining being super confident in a job interview, research shows, actually increase job interview confidence.
Using positive visualizations tricks your mind into believing you are confident. Once you believe you are confident, your posture, body-language and your communication in general will come across as more confident.
Prior to the interview take 15 minutes to practice interview confidence meditation.
2. Search for the interviewer
Most people have a social media profile.
By finding your interviewer online you can start to view them as human.
Interviewee anxiety comes from how the interviewer is perceived to be – a big scary industry expert.
Applicants, to increase confidence, can change their view of an employer by seeing them in a new light. As you flick through their social media profiles and pictures you can see them for who they are – a person who also interviews people.
3. Exercise Away the Anxiety
Get up and go for a run!
Exercise is by far one of the best ways to release job interview stress.
Start the day with a run or yoga, sit-ups or a swim. Exercise releases dopamine which improves job interview performance.
All that build up tension can be released by a simple exercise routine.
By changing how you approach the interview day can have a massive impact on the interview outcome.
Research shows how a relaxed and more confident applicant will naturally have a stronger rapport with an interviewer, and can recall past experiences that can be used during the interview questions.
