Practice makes perfect!
Even the best athletes struggle without practice. It would be a huge mistake to assume that you could just win a job interview unprepared.
Mock interviews sessions prove to be beneficial in many ways.
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Helps you reduce your stress and anxiety
Do you find yourself suddenly sweating and nervous during the interview?
The most experienced candidates may also suffer from this self-sabotaging anxiety attacks just before the interview for a dream job.
An experienced Coach helps you manage your anxiety by using a number of easy and effective NLP techniques in mock interviews.
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Boosting the Confidence level
During the mock interviews, the coach points out your weaknesses and strengths, which gives you time to address the weaknesses and build on your strengths.
Additionally, the coach helps you work on frequently asked questions such as “Tell me something about yourself?” Any loopholes in your resume such as employment gaps etc. is rehearsed in advance. Thus, mock interviews enable you to deflect a potential pitfall.
By practicing these answers several times, your confidence quotient will be high.
Impressing the interviewer is all about how well you communicate your ideas, how you articulate your points, understanding when to stop and when to add more information.
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3.Define your value proposition and define your personal brand.
The advantage of practicing with a career coach is that he helps you highlight your unique background experience and identify your value proposition, articulate why you would make a good hire, and stand out from your competition. Creating your personal brand helps you stand out and makes you desirable to employers.
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Build a positive Connect with the Interviewer
Of the three steps of communication – Connect, Convince and Convert, building a Connect is the most difficult. In a mock interview, you are encouraged to try out a lot of different openings for small talk and work on non-verbal communication. Your body language gives away cues to the interviewer about your mental state whether or not you care if you’re being truthful, and how well you’re listening. This will increase trust, clarity, and rapport.
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Understand the “Why” behind the interviewer’s questions
An experienced coach helps you understand the objective of the interviewer for asking a certain question. For e.g., Why should we hire you? The objective is to know whether the candidate can articulate his special traits suitable for the job he is seeking.
Similarly, why did you choose this company? The interviewer wants to know whether you have thoroughly researched the company.
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Build a powerful and relevant resume.
Simply copying an existing resume and sending it out to multiple companies and positions is rarely successful. Instead, your career coach helps you customize a resume that showcases your understanding of the role for which you are applying and the needs of the organization. Communicating how your experience can bring value and emphasizing skills relevant to the role are important in standing out among hundreds of resumes.
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Mock interviews are especially useful when changing Careers.
What does your current job in sales have to do with launching a career in the sports industry? Your career coach will identify and highlight the value in your prior experience and exposure to craft an answer that brings relevance to the new role.
Job interviews can be intimidating, and preparation is imperative. Getting a Coach is making an investment in your career. Your chances of success will increase by manifolds. Take the fear out of the interview process by prepping with your career coach, who has years of real-life recruiting insights to help you succeed unlike your peer or colleagues.
