Interview Confidence

Interview confidence is just a matter of a few simple techniques. Everyone, and I mean everyone, is nervous to a degree at doing interviews.

Lack of interview confidence can lose you an offer before you start and at worse it can prevent you from attending. Never let this happen. Below we give you some simple techniques that will fire up your interview confidence in minutes.

Improve your interview confidence by using any of the four techniques below.

We assume at this point you know what you want, why you want it and what specifically you can do to sell this company’s products? 

1. Briskly walk for ten minutes before arriving at the interview process day. This will have the effect of waking you up and ensures your whole system alert and alive. It has also been proven to significantly reduce interview nerves.

2. Ask yourself what we call positive directional questions. These are questions that force your mind to focus on the positive. For example, answer these below now and notice just how good you feel.

What are the three best things that I offer this role/company/product?
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3. Write on a space on your phone as many positive words as you can. For example, Yes, Success, Offer, Appointment, Freedom, Promotion, Raise, Fantastic, Phenomenal, Great, Marvelous, Winner, Achievement, anything you like. Positive words have positive sounds and positive mental images associated with them. These in turn trigger positive feelings.

Progress Now:
Write down your ten favourite positive words.
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And which of the above words, best describes how you feel now?

4. Remember a time that you felt very confident. Dwell on that time and the confidence will come back.