The Best You continues its series of articles to help job seekers get their best start at a career
Be The Best Candidate at Job Interviews 10 SECONDS MATTER THE FIRST
Top careers and sales coach Emma Vites gives job seekers advice when they walk into their interview.
yourself with the questions you believe the prospective employer will ask. Although all of this is crucial I believe there is something fundamentally missing with this approach and that is it misses the fact that you are being interviewed by a ‘person’ and there is a certain human element to interviews. We have all heard the phrase “people make
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up their mind about you in the first 10 seconds of meeting you” and this is the same with employers and interviewers. This article is about how can you grab article needs to be about how can you grab the positive attention of the interviewee in those crucial
here are so many articles written about how to be the best in a job interview and most of them centre on finding out about the company and the role and preparing
first 10 seconds to ensure that you have the maximum chance of securing the job. “The first 10% of any interview will
dictate the final 90%” Roger Caras So what happens in those first 10 seconds?
How do these quick opinions get formed? How do the employers decide if you are a yes or a no almost immediately? What we need to remember is that 96% of
what we do, think and feel is subconscious and that creates our beliefs, opinions, values and perceptions. This means that without us really knowing
it; our subconscious is forming opinions of people all the time, which allows us to make these quick judgements! As quick as 10 seconds! We decide who is confident, smart,
successful and employable before someone
even opens up their mouth! This is a great hint to know when going on job interviews, because you can create an amazing impression almost immediately. The best way to do this is to close
your eyes and really think about what characteristics you would see in people that would enable you to perceive them as confident, smart, successful and employable. Use your imagination and start to visualise what would they look like? What clothes are these confident people
wearing? How are they standing? What questions do they ask? How do they speak? Can you think of any famous people who emulate confidence? What is it about them that has caused
you to formulate your positive opinion and perception of them. b