How to Calm Your Nerves in Job Interview

hey everybody Don Georgevich here I hope you're doing well today in this video I'm going to teach you how to become less nervous in the interviews now before we can do this we need to find out why you're nervous what is it about the interview that's making you nervous if you just say interviews make me nervous then you need to start asking yourself some questions and this is what I do with people want to work with them on the phone I try to dig deep into this and find out the root of their nervousness now for some people they're just afraid that the interviewer is going to ask them a question that they don't know how to answer and I suppose that might make you nervous because if they ask you a lot of questions and you don't know how to answer any of them you're probably not going to get the job so what you want to do is find out what it is about you that makes you nervous is it a lack of experience I mean let's say you're interviewing for a job and you don't really have the experience for it and you're afraid they're gonna ask you questions that reveal that you don't have the experience if that's the case then you need to educate yourself in that area that you're interviewing for so that you're more familiar with some of the terminology that they might be using in this interview and that you would be using on this job if they hired you so some people are just nervous because they might not get the job and they need it they need the money they need it to make a house payment a car payment or or just to live whatever it is so just the very essence of their own insecurities about interviewing has them just scared to death and they're really nervous so you need to find out what it is about you is it just the questions that they're gonna ask and that you're not going to be able to answer them correctly or is it just plain old fear that they're not going to be that they're not going to be impressed with you most people are afraid of questions most people are just terrified of answering the questions the wrong way that they're gonna get asked a question that that they don't know how to answer or they're going to get asked a question and they're nervous that they won't be able to stop talking some people just love the talk and talk and they talk themselves into circles when they're answering questions and they end up giving the interviewer just way more information than they need one of the best ways to reduce your nerves before the interview is get yourself a video camera and if you don't have a video camera use your phone but whatever you do get it out there get it in front of you and look at it and pretend you're in the interview it tell you what better yet do this do this go out on go get yourself a picture of some people business people in suits I'm sure you can find an image go to Google Images find yourself a picture of people in business suits and print it out and put it in front or and back of your video camera and pretend that that is a panel of interviewers that you are talking to and then pretend that they're asking you questions and then you answer them answer them the way that that you want to answer them and then what you do is you go back and you watch that video and you see how long it takes now if it's taking you three or five or ten minutes to answer the questions that's far too long so get yourself a list of some common interview questions I actually have a whole list you can go to Java devtools comm slash top ten and you can download my top ten list of questions and use the and understand how to answer these questions so now you've got the questions you've got the video camera now get in front of the camera and start answering those questions and then watch that video and see how you did see how long it took you it should take you maybe 30 to 60 seconds to answer those questions get comfortable doing this do this over and over and over again until you can just sit back and comfortably answer any of those questions while you're looking at your camera and while you're looking at a picture of some business people in suits this is going to help calm your nerves it's going to increase your confidence because you're going to teach yourself that you are comfortable answering these questions and that you're answering them the right way so make sure when you answer them but they're about 30 to 60 seconds long when you listen when you listen back to what you said try to take note of all the um zand the AWS and the pauses that you put into your answer and try to take those out in your next take and shoot that video again answer that question again and try to do it cleaner and you just keep doing this over and over and you refine your answering technique and when you haven't refined the answering technique and you go into an interview you're going to be so much more comfortable and confident and you're going to be able to answer their questions sure you're probably going to be a little bit nervous obviously that that goes with the territory that's our that's our brains way of protecting us believe it or not your brain is making you be a little bit nervous because it's pushing you to get prepared for the interview so get prepared practice common interview questions and like I said go to my site jabber to view tools comm slash top down I'll put a link in the video description you can go grab that guide and that's going to teach you how to answer some of the more common interview questions another great way that you can use to calm your nerves this is goodness this technique works great pretend that it's not an interview just get that out of your mind think about it as an opportunity to teach someone what you're good at doing so I can pretty much guarantee that if you and I were to sit down and have a conversation and you were going to show me something that you know how to do pretty sure you wouldn't be nervous so remove the whole job interview element from it looking at look at it as an opportunity to teach someone something so when you go into the interview and they ask you questions about your experience just look at look at it as a way of educating them on what you know say oh yes I've worked on certain things like that here's some of the projects that I've worked on here's how I did it and then what you do is you ask them questions back ask them questions you know have you guys ever had problems like this or have you ever worked on projects like this engaged in your answer and when you start engaging them and asking them questions while you they're asking you questions this brings everybody into the conversation and you know what happened to your nerves you forget about them they're gone they're they're out the window so think about an interview as an opportunity to teach someone about what you are good at doing I guarantee it I guarantee you will not be nervous if you take that approach to it yeah and and lastly don't shoot yourself in the foot if you think that you need to get this job that you must get this job and you put this enormous pressure on yourself before the interview that you know what we have to get this job no matter what don't screw it up you know you're talking to yourself don't screw this up go in there and get the job if you put that kind of pressure on yourself you're probably dead before you even start it you're you're not going to be able to handle that kinda be able to handle your own internal pressure let alone the pressure that you're going to get from the interviewers so I urge you don't put that kind of pressure on yourself look at this job objectively go in and share with them what you can do and make them sell this position to you ask them questions like you know what what is it like to work here what can I expect to be doing make them answer some of your questions make them try to tell you that you're gonna like it here and what that's going to do that's gonna create a nice balanced conversation between the both of you it's gonna relieve all the pressure that you're feeling and you're gonna go in there and you're gonna objectively be yourself you're gonna objectively interview and you're just gonna be the real you and that's what they want to see when you let all this fear inside of you this nervousness inside of you they can't see the real you anymore because all that fear puts up a barrier and it's like it shields you for them so all they can see is this barrier and they don't really know the real you and that's why people who just go in are just so crazy nervous in the interview never get the job because the interviewer can't see who they really are so when you're in there relax yourself smile if you smile in the interview just smiling is going to release so much tension that you're feeling it's going to put you at ease it's gonna make you feel like you can sit back in the interview cross your feet put your hands on the desk and talk comfortably and confidently trust me on this this is how you do it this is going to cut your nerves so to recap go to Japanese Vito's calm / top ten get a list of questions get a free my free list of questions practice them in front of the camera and review your answers improve them make them better and pretend when you're in the interview that you are teaching them about what you are good at doing and I guarantee all of your nerves will just go out the window trust me on this that's all I have for you today thanks again for watching this video if you found it helpful please share it with your friends and subscribe to my channel and remember head on over to job in for toast comm slash top ten and when you get that questions guide that I mentioned earlier in the video that's also going to put you on my preferred email subscriber list where you get direct insights from me insights that i only share in email stay on your game my friend remember there is no one else like you and there will never be and this is your greatest advantage and the world needs that special gift that only you have thanks again for watching and I'll see you in the next video you

Channel: Don Georgevich

Views: 165,385

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Keywords: nervous intervew, job interview, how to calm your nerves, interview jitters, calm interview

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Length: 10min 55sec (655 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 23 2018