The Frustration of Job Interviews
Author: Rintu Basu


If you have a job then the chances are you have been
interviewed at some stage. Many people don't enjoy the formal
process of being interviewed and often with good reason. Here
are a few ways that interviews can go wrong.

Consider a position where you desperately want the job. It
might be the money, conditions or you just don't enjoy your
current job anymore. The night before you decide to prepare for
the interview.

You try all those tricks you have read on the internet about
calming down by imagining the interviewer naked. It works for a
few moments until you realise that your interview might be doing
the same. You barely look at your CV as you fill your mind full
of those negative thoughts like hundreds of people have better
CVs or an uncle in the company or are just confident and slick
with their language.

Having barely read through your CV you go to bed to dream of
turning up to the interview naked. Morning comes round too soon
and you are rushing out the door to get there on time. You
arrive at the company just on time flustered, dishevelled and
out of breath. Wheezing the name of your interviewer at the
receptionist you get the clear idea that she thinks you are some
crazed maniac as you suddenly go blank when she asks for your
name.

After a short wait you are met by a stony faced old crone who
looks like she has murdered someone every time she attempts a
smile. Walking towards the interview room you desperately try to
appear relaxed by attempting some small talk but unfortunately
the weather lasts only a few minutes and you find yourself
babbling about how easy the place was to find and the traffic
situation.

You eventually make it to the interview room and the old crone
offers you a coffee. After spending a few minutes wiping
yourself down from the coffee you just spilt down your front the
old crone asks if you are ready to start the interview proper.
She then says something like, "Just as a nice gentle start, talk
me through your CV."

Realising you can't remember anything on your CV and that you
have not brought any spare copies you mutter things about how
much you have enjoyed working for you last company. You are
convinced she thinks the CV is a fake when you come to the
conclusion that she said "gentle start" and that implies things
are about to get worse.

The old crone decides to focus you in on some key areas by
asking why you want to leave your current employment. You fumble
around trying not to admit that you hate the company, the work
and your boss and eventually hit on a "looking for fresh
challenges" answer. Annoyingly she asks what sort of fresh
challenges you think her company will give you.

Like a guppy opening and closing your mouth scrambling for an
answer you desperately clutch at straws. Realising that she may
be picturing you as naked has not helped and now you have
forgotten the original question. You hope to make it out of the
interview sometime in this lifetime.

At the point where you have lost all feeling in your
extremities the old crone tells you that this is your chance to
ask questions as she has finished hers. In an effort to appear
keen you ask her when will the company make a decision. Hoping
you have got the job she leads you out to the street after
answering your question.

If any of this strikes a chord with you then imagine how
different this could be if you had an air of confidence, a way
of making small talk that builds rapport, a formula for being
able to answer any interview question and deal with any
objection. Add in the final element of covertly implanting post
hypnotic suggestions that you are the best candidate for the
job.

Sound impossible? Perhaps not, many of these skills are
naturally occurring and you have certainly seen others do this
as part of their daily lives.

Some people just amble through life always getting what they
want, including the best jobs. I am sure you have met people
like that. These are the people using these skills, sometimes
naturally, sometimes they have been trained. In most cases these
skills are learnt quickly and easily in a matter of hours.

If your CV pulled three over four times more interviews than
normal would it be worth spending the two hours of CV Writing to
add those NLP and psychological techniques? It may take a couple
of hours working through a Hypnotic Interview Answer formula,
but once it is done you will be able to answer interview
questions powerfully for life.

In as little as thirty minutes you could learn how to banish
interview nerves, build rapport and take control of an interview
even though they seem like difficult skills.The only question is
how much people are prepared to devote to mastering these
interview skills because just a couple of hours is the
difference between a great job and just the job you are doing
now.


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