Here are 5 tips for you to be more confident in interviews.
Confidence Tip #1: Remember your VALUE
Knowing your value is all part of having a strong personal brand. Ask yourself and remind yourself "Why did they invite me to this interview in the first place?" It is because you have the right technical expertise, and the experience or the potential to be able to help the organization in this particular position. WHen you can remember your value it really helps you to boost your confidence.
Ask yourself what have you contributed to other organizations in the past? Or what have you done to improve a situation in the past that you can contribute and repeat in this new opportunity? Think of all the positive things that you have done and that helps you to build a concept around your self-worth and your value for what you can do for them
Confidence Tip #2: Use the Power of Persuasion
In the corporate world, you need to first of all know what it is that you want. But more importantly, know how to convience and persuade others to help you get it. This is nothing to do with being manipulative, or sleazy and slimey, or bribing people to get you what you want. It is about the power of persuasion and influence and being able to influence the person across the table from you that you are exactly what it is they need to hire.
The basic building blocks of persuasion are Context and Timing. You would never approach the same hiring manager out in the middle of the grocerry store and ask them to hire you on the spot. You would not try to convience them in that situation because it is the wrong context and wrong timing. In a context of an interview, hiring managers are wanting you to persuade them. They are very persuadable. So it is the perfect environment for you to be able to influence and show off your ability to convience them.
Confidence Tip #3: Frame every answer appropriately
When answering interview questions, you don't want to dive into the meat of the answer right away. Instead, you may want to take a step back and set it up. Frame it. It is almost as though you are developing the skeleton before you add on the meat. Andd this is particularly applicable for behavioral questions when the interviewer is expecting you to tell them an entire story about a situation or conflict that you had to overcome and how you handled it. If you don't deliver the story the right way, by framing it and setting it up properly from the beginning, then your point isn't going to come acress the way that you'd want and it won't come across as very convincing.
A lot of people get very superficial, they brush over the facts and they just jump right into "this is how I resolved it". What that does is it lacks the feelings and the emotions and the details that you could have provided to the interviewer, to really engage them. They don't feel compelled and convinced that the situation was really all that big of a deal when you really just brush through it and get to the end. So, describe the difficult situation itself. Really get into the details, paint the picture. Talk with the emotions that you experienced.
Confidence Tip #4: Have extra stories in your back pocket
The worst situation is going into an interview unprepared and not having predicted the questions and answers to what you would be asked. So it's important yo have multiple examples, stories and accomplishments that you can leverage and pull out of your back pocket anytime there is a new question being asked of you. You don't want to use the same simple story because you are not going to go very far in the interview process.
Maybe bucket your answer according to the category. So it could be you have an example and a story for your technical expertise. You have another one that demostrates your leadership, and you have another one that demostrates your strong communication skills. Make sure you have at least 3 or 4 examples or stories that you can simply pull out of your back pocket.
Confidence Tip #5: Visualize and Energize
Visualizing means that for the days and nights leading up to the actual day of ther interview, you want to take some time out of your day, even for just 5 minutes, close your eyes and visualize your interview going well. See yourself getting along with the interviewer being able to seamlessly answer their interview questions, and developing a very strong rapport with them. You see them nodding, you see them wanting to get to know you even more, really being engaged.
Athletes do this all the time before a big game so they can see themselves winninng and it creates this sense of belief that it's going to happen. And what that does is it creates this energy and momentum for you that you are going to do well. When you have that spirit and energy and momentum going for you, there should be nothing holding you back.
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Hopefully these 5 tips on how you can be more confident in your interviews help you for your next job interview. All the best.
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