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1. Introduction: You have a job interview coming up and you're a tad bit nervous. Normal. Luckily, with clarity
comes confidence. And in this
beginner's class into dominating your job interview, you're going to get
that coveted clarity. We're going to focus on the practical aspects of a dominating your
job and review. And we're going to make it as
simple as humanly possible. My name is Audrey, the founder of our Morning
Talks media company, which helps engineers and
entrepreneurs improve their communication
skills so they can articulate their ideas with
clarity and confidence. And in this beginner's class, you will learn how to
share relevant details. How to precisely ask
and answer questions. How to share your life story
in the job, interview. Your potential employers,
know more about you. Plus you will get a final project at the
end that will allow you to get prepared for this
a coveted job interview. If you're ready and excited, I look forward to
seeing you inside.
2. Have Plenty of Options: When you have too
much free time, that's not a good thing. A lot of individuals, whenever they are going
through a tough time, they free up their
schedule so much that they think they're
doing something good. But in the bigger picture, they're actually causing
themselves more problems. Us as human beings, we need stress in order to grow. We don't want too much stress. That's known as distress. We want the right amount of stress that is known
as you stress. The reason that I bring this up is because if you're one of those individuals who only has one job interview lined up, then this interview
is going to have such a high stakes that you're naturally
going to get more nervous. You're not necessarily framing herself as the higher
leveraged individual. Therefore, you don't
just want to apply to one organization
and call it that. Even if this is the only organization that
you want to work for, instead, you want
to be in motion. You want to be
creating stress for yourself by applying to
many other companies. So there's that
abundance mindset. Now, you may be at that
stage where you're like, Okay, I see what you're saying. But at the industry
that I worked for, There's not necessarily
other companies within it. There's only one to
two big players. And I've applied
to both of them. In this situation. We still want to lead with that,
use stress mentality. Rather than just dwelling
on the job interview. It takes some time to bring awareness to the skill sets
that you already have. What are you Good N What's your career
been like thus far? I try your best to
keep being in motion. And the more that your emotion, the more debt you start to have this abundance mindset as you are entering this job interview.
3. Know About the Company: One of the first tips is to
know a lot about the company. The more that you know
about the company, the more debt you are capable of answering a
multitude of questions. And you only know a lot
about the company once you understand the basics of it, such as the history. And not only that, you understand the business
aspects of it as well, what are they exactly do? Who do they serve? One of the easiest
ways for you to see. If you know a lot
about a company is to imagine that you own a company yourself and you're in the position
of hiring someone, what do you want them to know? Let's say you run a business
that sells comic books. You started it in
your mom's basement. And this was a relevant details that you deemed important. In order to put in your website. You have a lot of your selection of the
different books that you have. You have your target audience, the type of people that
would find interests in the particular content. What do you want this person
to know about your company? This is something that is
more emotional in nature. You probably want them to know how you got started
in the first place. Now this sort of details, they're very important for
the founders of the company. While you may be at that stage where
you're dealing with a, let's say a second to third level manager who don't
necessarily care that much. This is why we want
to also understand the practical kennedy
of this business. Who are they serving? How is it that our role
will help them out? Back to the comic book example. You scaled thus far, my friend. You're a big, big
empire and there are tears and tiers
of people below you. This person that wants to
come into the company. Let's imagine that your
third theorem manager is interviewing this person. What kind of questions would the third tier manager
asked this individual? Can you create and
maintain a website? Do you know how to
answer a customer? Complaints? What's your
knowledge with comic books? Like overall? The higher up that you are
speaking to someone, the more emotional
of an impact it is. It's the basement story. While the further away
they are from the founder, the more of a practical language that they're going to use, you want to be aware
of both sides. And the more that you're
aware of both sides, that is when you know that, you know a lot
about the company.
4. Dress Up: The day before your
job interview is a lot like the day before a public
speaking presentation. With public speaking,
a lot of people make the mistake of preparing the
night before the speech. This isn't good because you wanted to make
sure that you got all your preparation done a
couple of days beforehand. So the night before the speech, you have more time to fix
up your clothes are too, get a nice scent. And the more that
you're focusing your mind on something
other than the speech, it fools the mind into thinking that the speech that's
already taken care of. And you're now
starting to associate a positive feeling
with the speech rather than anxiously
practicing the day before. And likewise, we want to have the similar mindset in
regards to our job interview. We want to know a lot about
the company beforehand. We want to practice
a lot beforehand. And the day before
the job interview, we want to get into this zone where we're
like, we're okay. Now we need to look good. And many individuals
undermine at this concept. In certain industries, you don't necessarily
need to look good. I understand that in a
lot of Silicon Valley, accompanies looking too good is actually something that's
met with a cautious tone. But if you are, let's say in a corporate
atmosphere, are looking good, can be those few points
that once you over, if other people are
doubtful in regards to you, because a lot of humans or process tons of information
with their eyes. Or the better of a shirt
that you're wearing. Quality is iron,
your hair is combed, your beard is neatly trimmed, or you're no beard. Let's say you go
fully baby-faced. These sort of points add
up in terms of perception. So the night before
at the job interview, focus your mind on that. And the more digital
focusing on that, the more that you start to say, oh, I got this job interview
that's already in the bag. And this allows you to have a confident attitude on
your job interview day.
5. Tell Me About Yourself: For the next few slides, it may help if you're
practicing with someone. I want you to just practice
with someone or just simulate a individual that's asking you the
following questions. The first question you're
typically going to get, Tell me more about yourself. This question is very important because most of these
employers ask that first. We need to understand what
this question really means. Tell me about yourself is
such a general question. General questions typically
get general responses. And unfortunately, a lot of
the potential employees, the people getting interviewed, ramble in this
particular statement. Tell me more about yourself. What people really want to know is tell me how you
ended up right here. Okay? This targets your
mind even more. And once you understand that, tell me about yourself means a Tell me how
you got exactly here. Now, there's this clarity. It's like, okay, This
is the final zone that they're expecting me
to speak up until now, I could just trace back a
certain part of my career when I started to get curious
about this company earlier, we were using a
comic book example. So let's say you
are that individual that is applying to this
comic book company. And the third tier
manager is like, Hey, tell me more
about yourself. That's when you can have a pretty powerful
response. Okay? So initially, what happened was, I was in a very hard
skills are dominant field. I worked on that
for a long time. Eventually, I started
to understand the web development side of
how to use my art skills. And this was a very
unique moment for me because I realized by
creating websites, it wasn't something that was
only hard skills dominant. Instead, it was something
creative in nature. The reason that I like the whole concept
of creativity was because it reconnected
me back to my old school comic
book child self. And the reason that
this company has fascinated me was because it is going to hopefully
give me the chance to merge the hard skills field
with the soft skills field. Now, I'm over here just giving
you a very rough overview. But if you can have that target, Tell me about yourself. Means how did you end up here? Then you can frame the response however you see fit to give this company a holistic
understanding of you from the emotional side
or to the practical side. The practical side. And let's get onto that
in the next video.
6. Talk About Relevant Skills: Eventually, one of the
questions is going to be, what exact skill do you have? People aren't going to
always frame it like this. And certain interviews,
they're going to have you write a mock code. Other times they may have you
actually waiting a table. I've seen situations like
that happen in this case. Let's say you're practicing
with one of your buddies. You want this person to be very, very hard on you. You want this
person to be tough. Because if you can answer the tough questions
in regards to skills, then on actual job
interview day, you feel more competent. But if you can't even
answer the hard questions, I'll tell you what
to do more about that in the next videos. But it's something about it
just doesn't seem right. So let's say you're
going through this comic book company
and you're like, I'm trying to come here for
the web development position. And you can even
build a website. Plenty of individuals
get this part wrong. They have a degree in web
development and such. But they don't even understand
the practical role. They're like, oh, well,
I can't build a site, but if you give me
some time to do it, I'll probably be able
to figure it out. But this section allows you to zone in on what skills you have. It's not just about listing all these random
skills that, you know. It's about listening,
the skills that will benefit the company. Understand that the web
developer guys like, Well, I don't really
know web development, but I know Excel. You're not getting hired
for the Excel position. So have the other
person role-play with you and have them ask the
hard edge in questions, as hard edging
once they bring up a question and they
probed further into IT. Web development. What sort of web development do you built? The website from scratch or use one of those drag
and drop platforms. The more detailed
that you're going in, the more awareness
that you have in regards to the position. And the more awareness that you have in regards to the position, the more that you see how
your current competency of skills will benefit the company that
you're applying for.
7. Share Soft Skills: Let's say you're one
of those individuals that unfortunately doesn't have that many relevant skills for
the company, do not fear. Because this is when a very powerful mantra
will come into use. Hire for attitude,
train for aptitude. A lot of founders, a lot of managers
followed this mindset. They're looking for the attitude of who they're trying to hire. That is not to say that the
aptitude is not important, but at times they will sacrifice the aptitude aspect,
aka the skills. If you have the attitude, are you a warm personality? Have you ever exhibited a proper team working
skills in your past? Or you someone that can think creatively and form
connections with others, or you easy to work with. These are the soft skills. My friend, you got
to realize this. There's a lot of
ceilings to skills, a ceilings to your physical
attributes and such. But there is no ceiling
to your soft skills. And plenty of people that are going into
these job interviews, they're completely
unaware of this. They don't bring up at one
point that they used to be, let's say, the president of
their Toastmasters club. This is something
that is like, whoa, you were the president
and you know, public speaking very well. This individual is going to view you in an elevated light. Because if you're,
let's say going into accompany or there's a bunch of hard skills, dominant
individuals. Unfortunately, a lot
of these individuals spend a long time talking to
the computer, not people. A lot of these individuals
do not know public speaking. This is your
opportunity to showcase your attitude in a good way. You're capable of
persuading others. You have the soft
skills on lock. So take some time to think about the soft skills that
you currently possess. Are you a great writer? Are you a great storyteller? Are you a great public speaker? All of these skill
sets are highly powerful when applying
for a job interview.
8. Follow Up Questions: Imagine that you are
giving a best man speech, and it's your big speech day. You see the groom and the bride. They're sitting down
and they're enjoying your talk. Director talk. You're talking about how you
initially met the groom, how you guys went through
the ups and downs together, and you wrap up with wishing the groom to have a
very successful life. What did you miss? You forgot to incorporate
the bright in your speech. That's why at the speech, unfortunately, fell
flat, my friend. And likewise, you've
been doing everything, correct in terms of the
job interview over here, knowing a lot about the company. You're talking about the value and the skills that you can
provide to the company. Everything is wrapping up
and you think you're done. What did you miss? Questions? So this is one great way to
stick out in a job interview. If you can ask smart questions
around the end portion, then this allows you
to stick out because most individuals have no
questions or they just ask, when can I expect to
hear back from you? The reason that questions are very deadly in a job interview. The good kind of
deadly, of course, because it shows
that you're paying attention and you're focusing
on the little details. Think about anyone
that's memorable. They're not just focusing
on the bigger picture. They're focusing on
the tiny little things that people missed out on. So if you have some smart
questions that you can ask, then the employer will
typically view you as someone that was engaged
throughout the interview. Now, I can't necessarily tell you exactly which
sort of questions to ask because this is dependent upon interview
per interview. But I will give you an
example of a moment when I was hiring
someone for my company, I was looking for an assistant. And there was this
woman that applied. She was doing a great job
throughout the interview. Actually, who am I kidding? She was doing good
but not great. And around the end
I was like, Okay, well, that's it
for the interview. And she was like, I have a quick question. I asked her what the
question was. She asked. I've noticed throughout
your schedule that you work every day. Doesn't ever get tiring. I mean, did you strategically
set it up for it to be like that or
are you burnt out? And once she asked
that question, I liked it because it showed someone that was curious
in regards to me. And if she was gonna be
curious in regards to me, then she understood the
position of an assistant. Very well. So overall, whenever you're
wrapping up an interview, if you have some strategic
questions to ask, now, is the time to ask it.
9. Final Project: For the final project you
are going to role play. I want you to find
someone who is the CEO of a company and talk about what this person does
for the company. Just so you have a stronger understanding of the organization that
you are applying for, then I want you to
pretend as though that you have never met
the CEO before. And you're doing
everything that we discussed in this class. You're number one,
are getting to know a lot about the company. Then you're trying to
see how your skill sets or can benefit the company
in some way, shape, or form. If you don't have too
many irrelevant skills, I want you to think about the soft skills that you
can bring to the table. And if you have the relevant
skills and the soft skills, then you are just improving
your perception more. On the actual job interview day. Make sure you're
dressed up sharp and go through a
mock interview with this CEO and make sure that you get someone that
is not a yes man. Make sure you get someone who is willing to challenge you. Because the more
that this person is challenging you during
the simulation, the more likelihood that
you have of battle testing yourself and dominating on
the actual interview day. Once the interview
is wrapping up, be sure to ask some
good questions to show that you are engaged in
the entire interview. And once you are done with that, I create a report
of this entire job, interview, a simulation, get as detailed as
you possibly can. What did you enjoy? What was difficult? What can you see? Yourself approving and compile the report and post it on the final project
section right below. I look forward to reading it and best wishes with
your job interview. If you enjoyed this
beginner's class into a soft skills
visual checkout, the Armani talks.com website. This website, you'll
get plenty of my blogs, books, my videos,
podcasts, and much more. Armani talks.com. Go on and check it out.
Arman Chowdhury, Confidence thru Communication
