Getting Rid of Nervousness on Your Interviews
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
In this video, Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter teaches a simple way to get rid of your nervousness before your interview.
Hi! I’m Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter. I’m referred to as the Big Game Hunter because I hunted down leaders and staff for organizations for more than 40 years.
Today, I want to talk with you a bit about how to manage nerves for an interview. How do you deal with feeling excited, sufficiently excited that you kind of go over the edge. You get scared. That’s really what nerves are about is you’re scared that you’re not going to perform well.
This trick I learned some years ago from a friend that has helped me a lot in cases where I’ve gotten nervous, it’s the idea of getting to a place early, waiting outside because you don’t want to have someone watching you do this and here’s what I’m going to do.
Breathe. Breathe deeply and release the air slowly. Again, deeply and slowly. Do that a few times. Relax. Relax yourself just with that (take a breath). It make take a few times to get into the groove with it. The trick I learned was to do it at least seven times and what that does is physically . . . and that isn’t the psychological part of it . . . physically slow your breath down so you’re not breathing those short shallow breaths that come from nervousness.
Firms when they interview someone can pick up on the nerves. It’s the quick speech, how you position yourself in the chair that suggests nervousness and what firms look for when they hire is someone who carries themselves with a degree of self-assurance and confidence. The nervous individual, the one who appears as though they’re frightened, it’s like the sharks get in the water and they there’s a feeding frenzy that goes on.
But if you can just take a moment outside to take a deep breath, release slowly, you’ll find your own performance is going to do better. You’re going to hear more of the undertone to the questions that you’re asked and the results are just going to be that much better.
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