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How to drive away your nervousness during interview |
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It is common that you all will be nervous at the time of interview
though you have probably spent a great deal of time preparing.
However, you should let your practice and preparation
become a disadvantage.
Once the interview begins, we must focus on interacting effectively
with the interviewer. If we have prepared adequately for the interview,
our conduct and responses should effortlessly convey to the interviewer
the image we want to project.
It's important for us to know that the interviewer's
decision about whether or not we will be invited back for an additional
interview which will probably be influenced by your attitude and
personality as much as by your qualifications. So although preparation is
important, our performance during an interview can make things even
better. We should always maintain a smile during the time of interview. Get ready:
Collect some information about the company through its
website or through its brochure. Obviously. If you have a presentation
then study your notes and what you are about to say carefully before
stepping up on stage. up in meeting. If you have a job interview, think
about what they may ask you and figure out some good answers. Doing
this carefully and meticulously can remove a lot of nervousness. It may
not always be fun. But being well prepared can be helpful not only to
remove nervousness but also to face the presentation or get the job.
Question yourself: What is the worst that could happen?
What is really the worst that could happen? How will it
affect you in the actual scene? In many cases you will find that the
answer boils downhill, not really that much. It's easy to get excessively
wrapped up in what is about to happen and blow up the event and possible
consequences in your mind until it seems like it's a matter of life and
death. It seldom is. Asking a few simple questions can put things into a
healthier perspective and calm you down.
Take 15 abdomen breaths.
Stomach breathing is a wonderful way to defeat negative
feelings and visualizations and return to the present moment. Just taking
a few dozen abdomen breaths can change nervous and shallow breathing into
a calm and strong alternative. It's quite remarkable how quickly this can
change how you feel. Here's how you go about it:
* Sit straight in a peaceful position with your
legs away from each other
* Put your hands on your stomach. Using your
stomach inhale slowly through your nose. If you are doing it right your
stomach will expand and you'll feel it with your hands.
* Exhale slowly through your nose and do it with
some force so you feel your stomach pull slightly inwards towards your
spine.
* Breathe in and out 30 times. Take slow and deep
breaths.
* After you have taken 30 breaths and focused on
counting them you should not only feel more relaxed and centred. Your body
will also be able to continue breathing in this manner without you
focusing on it. And that's it. Continue with your normal day.
Yoga practice:
Here is another yoga practice to bring down your
nervousness during the interview. Here's how you go about it.
Close the left nose with left thumb inhale and then exhale.
Close the right nose with right thumb inhale and then exhale.
Do it for 20 times, if possible Continue with your normal day.
Arrive Early
Arrive 20-30 minutes before your meeting is expected to
begin. This will help give you a chance to get a small sense
of the company's environment before your interview begins and will also
allow you some time to become better adapt with your new surroundings,
which hopefully will promote more of a relaxed feeling.
Begin With a Smile
A smile relaxes both you and the audience. It helps to
chase away nervousness. Showing a smile in your face hides your
nervousness. When you smile, you look more relaxed and confident, and when
you are confident, people are more inclined to believe what you say.
Dress professionally:
Appropriate dressing is very important. A well dressed and
groomed appearance can do wonders for that first impression. Keep yourself
fit in your dressing. Now is not exactly the time to make a fashion
statement so a tastefully chosen professional outfit, with suitable
accessories like a hand-bag or brief case should be fine. Make yourself
comfortable in the dressing.
Create in your mind:
Much of our time is spent habitually visualizing what may
go wrong in a future situation. This may increase your nervousness.. It
can also give you the results you imagined – or feared – through
self-fulfilling prediction If you think you will fail, then you are making
it a whole lot harder for yourself to succeed.
Imagining in an optimistic way is definitely a more useful and pleasant
way to spend some time with your imagination. Now, you may think that
visualizing this way is just improbable but seeing in a pessimistic way is
just as improbable Either way, you are imagining what may happen in a
possible future scenario. Doing it in a negative way may just feel more
realistic because that's what people around you are doing or because It's
what you've been doing every day for the last few years.
Here are some handy instructions for when you, for instance, have an
upcoming meeting:
The above solutions are the easier ones. The suggestions
below are the ones you need more time to incorporate. It may take weeks,
months or even years. Over time you can gradually make these ideas
stronger parts of your life. And they can make you feel less and less
nervous in any situation.
Comprehend that people don't care that much about what
you do.
One big source of nervousness is focusing too much on what people will
think of you. And thinking that their criticism is always about you.
But people don't think that much about what you do. You keep much of
your attention from day to day on your problems, challenges and triumphs.
And that's exactly what the next guy/girl is doing too.
In general, people keep much of their attention on their own challenges
and problems. And their criticism is often about something negative in
their life rather than about something you did. So don't worry too much
about it. Now, it's very easy to fall back into a behaviour where you feel
needy and wonder what people may think about you and what you do. But by
working on this you can, step by step and over time, become less and less
worried or bothered by what people might think. This allows you more inner
freedom to do and try what you want since you're not feeling trapped in
box of other people's opinions.
A firm handshake:
Give a firm handshake to the interviewer the moment you
enter the hall. This indicates your confidence level and personality in
total. The handshakes will push off your nervousness. When shaking hands,
match the pressure of their handshake. Do not be shamble or unusual with
the way you shake hands. Wait a moment and smile at the interviewer after
meeting them.
Good eye contact:
Maintain a good eye contact with the interviewer.
It is a form of nonverbal communication known as oculesics and has
a large influence on social behavior. It shows the personal
involvement and creates an intimate bond between the interviewer and
interviewee. Keeping too much eye-contact might crawl people out. Giving
no eye-contact might make you seem insecure. If you are not used to
keeping eye-contact it might feel a little hard or scary in the beginning
but keep working on it and you'll get used to it.
Don't touch your face
Avoid touching your face. Don't shake your shoulders and
hands. It might makes you seem nervous and can be disturbing for the
listeners or the people in the conversation.
Stay in the present moment.
This one ties into the one about belly breathing. When you
take those deep, powerful breaths and focus on doing that your mind seems
to silence. Your projections of what may happen at the meeting or job
interview die out. Nervousness comes from these negative projections of
what may happen sometime in the future. Or from what happened in the past,
perhaps from the last time you had a meeting or an interview. When you
instead focus your attention on what's happening now, now and… now the
nervousness dies out too. Another way to stay in - or return to - the
present moment is to just pay attention to what is happening right now.
Just focus on the scene and the sounds right in front of you. Don't think
about the reports you have finish before 5 o'clock, the meeting tomorrow
or what you want for dinner. Just pay attention to the present moment and
nothing else for a few moments. Make it a habit and try to expand the time
you can spend in the present moment before your thoughts drift away again.
Don't swallow the answer:
While giving the answer for the questions don't swallow
the last word of your sentence. This brings down the confidence level and
indicates that you are not confident about your answer.
Accept:
Many people freeze, stammer, or panic when they are asked
a question that they don't know the answer to. If you don't know the
answer, the best course of action to take is to admit it! Tell the host
you can try to find out the answer later. Lying or attempting to make up
an answer only serves to make you and the host uncomfortable.Accept your
innocence. Don't give wrong answer and get caught. Don't nod your head too
much which indicates that you are hiding your tension through your body
language.
Validity:
Give valid answer for the questions asked by the
interviewer and there may be some stressful questions (a series of harsh,
rapid fire questions intended to upset the applicants)and that questions
are to check your emotions ,during that time don't be very emotional and
answer with a cool mind.
Avoid beverages:
On the morning of your interview, try to avoid caffeine as
much as possible. Most of the people believe that it helps them to
relax, but a lot of caffeine researchers claim that it can increase
tension levels. Also, when attempting to bar caffeine from your
diet on the morning of your interview make sure to keep in mind that
coffee isn't the only culprit behind increasing nervousness or agitation
but chocolate, tea and cola can also play a significant role because they
also contain caffeine.
Practise, practise, practise.
Practice will also help alleviate nervousness. Obviously
it's best to work on mock interviews with a media coach who will offer
subjective, professional feedback.The more you practise, take action and
put yourself in situations that may make you nervous the more confident
you become. You have been there before; you know pretty much what will
happen. So you feel more and more comfortable and less nervous.
Conclusion
To make it happen as expected in an interview each
individual must make a sincere self-assessment and find out one's areas of
both strength and weakness. Knowledge of one's own deficiencies is useful
in overcoming weaknesses and unconscious bad habits of posture or speech
can be improved by effort. Shortcomings which cannot be overcome can be
accepted and acknowledged so that they do not lead to depression and
embarrassment when others notice them. Therefore, coming to terms with
oneself and knowing how to deal with one's faults, and how to make the
best use of one's knowledge and skills, is another vital element in
preparing for an interview.
.So following these practices will definitely eliminate
the unnecessary nervousness and I assure that cen percentage you can
move through your interview and come off with flying colours. |
