Rehearse Your Interview on Video

• 00:04 So let's say you've done all the exercises so far, you've watched all the videos and
• 00:09 you're still nervous about that job interview.
• 00:12 What are the things you can do to reduce the nerves?
• 00:15 For starters, give yourself extra time.
• 00:19 If something takes you a half an hour to get there, and
• 00:22 your job interviews is at 11:00, don't leave the house at 10:30.
• 00:26 Because even if everything goes well, you may find yourself walking very quickly,
• 00:31 that lasts two blocks to get to the job interview and you could be sweating.
• 00:35 You don't want to get there, and all of a sudden, no, I'm sweating,
• 00:40 I'm perspiring, I'm oily.
• 00:42 Give yourself plenty of time, and allow for a bus delay,
• 00:47 a mass transit delay, traffic jam.
• 00:50 If you're driving, give yourself extra time.
• 00:52 If something takes you a half an hour to get there,
• 00:55 give yourself a full hour so that you have plenty of time.
• 00:59 Before you walk in, you're collected, you're not rushed, you're not out of
• 01:04 breath, you're not flush, you're not sweaty, and you're completely comfortable.
• 01:10 Okay, now for the number one tip on how to completely
• 01:14 eliminate your nerves, here is exactly what you need to do.
• 01:20 Find a friend, colleague, a family member,
• 01:23 tell them the company you're interviewing with.
• 01:27 Give them a few sample questions you think that the person interviewing you might
• 01:31 ask, some of them are obvious.
• 01:33 Why should we hire you?
• 01:34 Tell me about yourself.
• 01:36 Why are you interested in this position?
• 01:38 Have your friend, family member, colleague, asked you these questions.
• 01:44 But here's the trick, you're not going to like this.
• 01:47 But it's the number one thing you can do to get rid of nerves.
• 01:50 Give your family member, friend, a cell phone, and
• 01:55 have them record the entire fake practice job interview with you.
• 02:02 I know you don't want to do it, but guess what?
• 02:04 You need to do it because if you're in the job interview and
• 02:07 you're nervous and all of a sudden, you're doing this.
• 02:10 Doesn't really matter how good your answers are, you're
• 02:13 not going to leave a good impression with that individual interviewing you.
• 02:17 They're going to think you're a little strange or high strung or weird.
• 02:23 So that's why you need to practice on video.
• 02:25 What makes us nervous quite often is not knowing how we come across.
• 02:30 Are we speaking too quickly?
• 02:31 Are we speaking too softly?
• 02:33 Are we somehow shouting and we're not aware of it?
• 02:36 It's very easy to find out, you just record.
• 02:41 And then you have to watch it, I know you don't want to watch it.
• 02:46 TJ, I don't like my face, I don't like my voice.
• 02:49 Well, guess what?
• 02:50 The person who's interviewing you has to look at your face, so
• 02:54 you might as well do it too.
• 02:56 The person interviewing you has to listen to your voice, so
• 02:59 you might as well know how it comes across.
• 03:02 So you've got to have your friend, colleague,
• 03:05 family member interview you, you've got to record it on video.
• 03:10 If you don't record it on video, it really doesn't help much.
• 03:15 And that's the same with practicing in front of a mirror,
• 03:18 that doesn't really help.
• 03:19 You practice in front of the mirror and words are coming out of your mouth, but
• 03:23 you're thinking, was my nose a little crooked or I never know, my eyes too.
• 03:28 Don't practice your job interview answers in front of a mirror,
• 03:33 practice with someone asking you the questions and
• 03:38 you videotape it and you watch it.
• 03:41 But you've gotta watch it really carefully,
• 03:43 you gotta figure out what do you like, what do you not like.
• 03:46 If you notice that the first two minutes of an eight minute interview,
• 03:51 you're speaking really quickly and rushed, make a note of that and
• 03:56 practice it again consciously speaking slower in the first two minutes.
• 04:01 So that even though you are nervous, you don't appear to be nervous.
• 04:06 So here's the real trick,
• 04:08 you have to keep practicing until you like your answers on video.
• 04:14 You gotta like how you look, how you sound,
• 04:17 how you move, because you can have the best answers in the world.
• 04:21 If you're kind of like sitting back like this arms crossed, it's going to be
• 04:26 extraordinarily difficult to leave a good impression with that interviewer.
• 04:31 You need to be leaning forward when you're talking to this person interviewing,
• 04:36 you need to be leaning forward, listening to them.
• 04:38 Your hands actually need to move.
• 04:40 You shouldn't be holding pencils, holding books in the middle of the job interview,
• 04:45 you shouldn't be sitting on your hands.
• 04:47 You should do it all people do when they're comfortable talking,
• 04:51 their hands move.
• 04:53 Disregard all the sitcom advice about how you're likely to be nervous and do this.
• 04:57 No, people don't actually do that, in my experience.
• 05:01 So you want your hands to move naturally.
• 05:05 Now, if absolutely nobody will rehearse with you, then just practice yourself,
• 05:11 ask yourself a question, hit record on your video and tape it.
• 05:15 And keep doing that until you like it.
• 05:18 Now, it may be you do it in one take and you love it, you're confident and
• 05:22 you're ready to go in.
• 05:24 It may be you have to do 100 days, I don't care how many it takes.
• 05:27 But if you want to get over nervousness, number one way of doing it is
• 05:33 practice your answers on video until you love every aspect of style and substance.
• 05:39 Do take after take, after take, if that's what it takes.
• 05:43 Now, this will get faster, this will get easier.
• 05:45 The more job interviews you go on, you'll spend less time on this because you'll get
• 05:49 better at it, you'll get more familiar with it.
• 05:51 But don't just think in your head about your answers.
• 05:55 Don't just write it down.
• 05:57 Don't just rely on your memo.
• 05:59 You must practice your answers on video.
• 06:02 Watch it, listen to it, until you like it, then your nerves will disappear.

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