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“Our bodies change our minds, and our minds can change our behavior, and our behavior can change our outcomes.”
Dr. Amy Cuddy - Social psychologist and Associate Professor at Harvard Business School
How you perform in a job interview is important, and we will focus on that next week. So today we focus something equally as important - preparing for the interview.
So much of a decision about you is made in the first ten seconds of the meeting. Here are some ways that you can walk into an interview calm, confident and totally set up for success:
1. Do your homework
Get to know something about the company or the person you are about to meet. You don’t have to do comprehensive research to know everything about a company before you walk into a meeting. But if you know something about the person’s experience, point of view or the company’s vision, it shows that you are interested, have put in some effort and therefore are willing to work hard to be a useful to the company.
2. Know your own details
Too many people skip this important step and seem surprisingly shaken when asked questions about themselves. You must know your resume cold – your experience, work history, dates. Be prepared to answer questions that provide a lens to your behavior and values. For example, what will you do in a situation where you find that a colleague may be cheating, breaking the rules or stealing? They are testing your character. The way to
prepare for this is to think about and get clear about your values.
3. Prepare your mind and your body
Make sure to get a good night’s sleep the night before an interview so you arrive well-rested and energized. Drink plenty of water. Dr. Amy Cuddy has done a lot of work on how body language produces hormones. Pumping your arms above your head in a victorious I-am-a-winner gesture, as if you just won a race, actually reduces the stress hormone and gives you the feeling of a winner. You will start off with confidence when you walk in the door for your interview.
4. Think success
Imagine yourself nailing the interview. Imagine yourself in the job and enjoying it. This visualization will do its own magic to enhance your performance.
Preparation is a key ingredient for building confidence for each of your interviews and will make a big difference overall in your success.
So what about you? Which aspect of preparation will you take on more rigorously than you have before?
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By Jonathan Flaks“Our bodies change our minds, and our minds can change our behavior, and our behavior can change our outcomes.”
Dr. Amy Cuddy - Social psychologist and Associate Professor at Harvard Business School
How you perform in a job interview is important, and we will focus on that next week. So today we focus something equally as important - preparing for the interview.
So much of a decision about you is made in the first ten seconds of the meeting. Here are some ways that you can walk into an interview calm, confident and totally set up for success:
1. Do your homework
Get to know something about the company or the person you are about to meet. You don’t have to do comprehensive research to know everything about a company before you walk into a meeting. But if you know something about the person’s experience, point of view or the company’s vision, it shows that you are interested, have put in some effort and therefore are willing to work hard to be a useful to the company.
2. Know your own details
Too many people skip this important step and seem surprisingly shaken when asked questions about themselves. You must know your resume cold – your experience, work history, dates. Be prepared to answer questions that provide a lens to your behavior and values. For example, what will you do in a situation where you find that a colleague may be cheating, breaking the rules or stealing? They are testing your character. The way to
prepare for this is to think about and get clear about your values.
3. Prepare your mind and your body
Make sure to get a good night’s sleep the night before an interview so you arrive well-rested and energized. Drink plenty of water. Dr. Amy Cuddy has done a lot of work on how body language produces hormones. Pumping your arms above your head in a victorious I-am-a-winner gesture, as if you just won a race, actually reduces the stress hormone and gives you the feeling of a winner. You will start off with confidence when you walk in the door for your interview.
4. Think success
Imagine yourself nailing the interview. Imagine yourself in the job and enjoying it. This visualization will do its own magic to enhance your performance.
Preparation is a key ingredient for building confidence for each of your interviews and will make a big difference overall in your success.
So what about you? Which aspect of preparation will you take on more rigorously than you have before?