How To Be Confident In A Job Interview!

In this guide, we will give you 11 crucial confidence-building tips for helping you to PASS your job interview. These 11 tips are designed to help you significantly reduce interview nerves!

Try treating the interview as a MEETING between you and a potential employer to assess your suitability for the role.

This will help to reduce interview nerves.

But remember, it is important to have some nerves before your interview because this shows that you care – and that’s important!

The interview is not about YOU getting a job! This is about the interviewer getting someone for the role who is going to ADD VALUE to their business.

You must focus on HOW YOU WILL ADD VALUE to their business in the position you are applying for.

Once you start approaching job interviews in this way, you automatically put yourself ahead of the competition!

You might say during your job interview…

“I believe I can add value to your business by always providing great customer service – this, in itself, will attract more customers to the company.”

Or, you might say…

“I can be relied upon to be a supportive team worker, to embrace change positively, and to always ensure I take responsibility for my own professional development.”

The job description tells you what the interviewer is looking for from the successful candidate.

The job description gives you a clue as to the type of questions they will ask you.

For example, the below is part of a job description for the role of a CUSTOMER SERVICE ASSISTANT.

The key skills required for the job include:

• Providing excellent customer service.
• Being able to multi-task.
• Being able to work as part of a team.

Therefore, in preparation for the interview, we would think how we were going to answer the questions:

Q. Tell me about a time when you have provided excellent customer service.

Q. Tell me about a time when you had responsibility for lots of different tasks.

Q. Tell me about a time when you worked as part of a team.

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Before you attend the job interview, visit their website ABOUT US page. Look at their social media pages and follow them. Find one positive news story to talk about their business during the interview.

 By researching their company, it enables you to answer the interview questions:

1. 1. What can you tell me about our company?
   2. Why do you want to work for us?

It is essential you dress smartly and professionally for your job interview.

If you make an effort in how you dress, it tells the interviewer two things:

1. That you care about the interview. If you care about the interview, you are going to care about their organization.
2. It tells the interviewer that you have high standards. All employers want to take people on who have high standards.
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If you can introduce yourself at the start of your interview in a confident manner, this sets you up for the rest of the interview. If you fumble, or forget what to say at start of the interview, you will lose confidence.

Here’s a great way to introduce yourself in an interview:

People tend to write off their chances before they even start the interview.

“I don’t have the experience…”

“I’m not good enough!”

‘They won’t hire someone like me!”

These are all unhelpful assumptions that only serve to hinder your chances.

One of the best ways to significantly increase your chances of getting hired is to be polite, to smile, and to be POSITIVE during the interview.

If you demonstrate good manners throughout your interview, and you are positive about the future, you are more likely to get hired. The biggest mistake candidates make before and during their job interview is to be negative.

All hiring managers want is someone that is going to complement their team by having a can-do, positive attitude to work.

When listening to the interviewer, and when answering his or her questions, always maintain eye contact.

If you constantly look away, it tells the interviewer you are not a confident person.

Be sure to carry out a mock interview before the real thing. Sit down in a chair, and get a friend, a partner, or a family member to ask you the following 7 interview questions:

• Tell me about yourself.
• Why should we hire you?
• What’s your biggest weakness? (A good weakness is, you find it hard saying no to people, or you have no experience of talking to large groups of people!)
• Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
• What are your strengths?
• Why do you want to work for us?
• What can you bring to this role?

Just in case you can’t answer a question, have a plan of what you are going to say…

OPTION 1 – If they ask you a question about a situation you have not been in before, tell them when you saw someone else do it!

OPTION 2 – Say “Please can we come back to it later in the interview.” This gives you time to think of an answer.

OPTION 3 – Inform the interviewer that you don’t know the answer, but you will get back to them after the interview.

Finish your interview off with confidence and be the standout candidate by asking the following 3 smart questions:

1. How has the company evolved over the years?
2. What would you need you focus on in the role within the first 30 days of starting?
3. What’s the culture like within the company?

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• The secrets to passing any interview;
• The common mistakes made at the interview (and how to avoid them!);
• Over 50 interview questions to prepare for (and how each is assessed);
• Full answers to each of the questions so you can learn how to deliver successful answers of your own.
• Beating the competition (what you MUST do to be successful);
• Checklists and printable resources;
• All interview answers are verified by our interview panel of experts.
• Instant online access as soon as your order is placed to over 50 interactive modules.

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