Not Having Any Joy From Job Interviews

Maybe because of the money, the conditions or you just no longer enjoy your current job, let’s just imagine you desperately want a new job and have been called to interview. The night before you diligently sit down to prepare.

Taking out your CV and looking through it your mind is full of ideas that only the incompetent get the best jobs. You have to have the gift of the gab or have an uncle working for the company and there must be hundreds of people with better experience and skills. You practice imagining the interviewer naked as a way to calm you down. It works for a few minutes until you suddenly realise they might be doing the same to you.

Your sleep is disturbed with dreams of turning up to the interview naked and forgetting everything on your CV. You sleep in and barely make it to the company on time. Out of breath, crumpled and flustered you wheeze your interviewer’s name at the receptionist. When she asks your name you go blank and you get the impression the receptionist thinks you are an idiot.

The wizened old hag that is your interviewer eventually comes to show you to the interview room. Every time she smiles you feel as if someone has died. In an attempt to build rapport you babble about traffic, the weather and strangely drift into the socio economic policies of Thailand. She looks confusedly at you and you let the subject drift.

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.”

You mind immediately flicks through to if this is a gentle start what happens when it gets rough? You then realise that you didn’t bring any copies of your CV and can barely remember anything on it. After a few minutes of aimless wittering about your favourite holidays you get the distinct impression that she thinks you have faked your CV.

Old Prune Face decides to increase the pressure by asking you what you can contribute to the company. Fumbling for an answer you eventually settle on enthusiasm and working to the best of your ability. Irritatingly she mentions that they expect that from everyone in the company and asks if you have anything else to offer.

Panicking you scramble for an answer. An image of her naked flashes through your mind and you realise that this won’t work for you. Suddenly realising that she might be thinking of you naked puts the original question out of your mind and you sit their blankly. A whole lifetime later and the interview is still going on.

Just as you are losing the will to live your old crone informs you that this is your chance to ask questions as she has finished hers. Trying to appear keen you ask her when will the organisation make a decision. Having answered your question she shows you out and you leave hoping beyond hope that they offer you the job.

I am certain that most people will have had some of this experience. What would be like if you could remain focused, calm and take control of the interview? How about implanting suggestions in to the interviewer’s head that you are the ideal candidate for the job with every answer? Or even coming in to the interview quietly confident but also dramatically building the rapport between you and the interviewer?

Seem impossible? May be not, many of these skills happen naturally 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 seen people like that. These are the people using these skills, sometimes naturally, sometimes they have been trained. In the majority of situations these skills are learnt quickly and easily in a matter of hours.

It will only take a couple of hours of CV Writing to add lots of psychological and NLP pulling power. After this your CV will gain you more interviews than you could handle. Working through a Hypnotic Interview Answer Formula may take two hours, but the gains are incredible. You will have the skill for life and be able to apply it to many more situations.

Banishing interview nerves, building rapport, maintaining composure and taking control of the interview all seem like hard skills but they can be learnt in less than thirty minutes.The only question is how much people are prepared to devote to mastering these interview techniques because just a couple of hours is the difference between a great job and just the job you are doing now.