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Career Workshop
Interviews can be daunting but there are ways to keep your cool.
Professional voice coach, Alan Woodhouse explains how:
“Focus on the job as much as possible – what it is, what expertise or
qualities you need to be able to do it – rather than on yourself. If
you were in the interviewer's place, what would you want to know? It’s
likely to be that the person you are interviewing wants the job; has
some background making them suitable for the job; has thought about
what the job entails and how it might be done well; has researched the
company and the position as much as possible and has ideas of what they
could contribute. All of these are positive actions. When we focus on
action we can help ourselves to forget our nerves and negative
thoughts. Remember, they are seeing you, rather than choosing to see
someone else, so they must have seen some evidence that you are
capable. Stay in control of your feelings by focussing on breathing: be
aware of your breath coming into the body and going out of the body. In
and out – it's a cycle. Breathe out for an extra second: you'll find
you breathe in more deeply. It will relax you. Breathe out for another
extra second. Enjoy breathing in deeply. Finally, listen to the
interviewer: don't get too carried away with your own ideas that you
don't engage with them.”
For further advice on preparing for interviews visit bemyinterviewer.co.uk
If you have a career-related question that you would like answering by
an expert, please email careerworkshop@jobsite.co.uk.
Or if you would like advice from fellow jobseekers and workers that may
have experienced similar dilemmas to you visit Career Surgery on
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