44. Dealing with Interview Nerves Pop Your Career with Bec McFarland

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44. Dealing with Interview Nerves - Transcript

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[00:00:52] Hi, there I'm Bec McFarland the host of the Pop Your Career [00:01:00]Podcast. As a career coach, I'm most passionate about helping my clients to discover their own personal flavour of career fulfillment. In this podcast, we are going to be exploring ways that you too can feel more fulfilled by your work. So strap yourself in, get ready for the ride. The tips around here are fast and in abundance.

[00:01:21] Hello, hello, Bec McFarland here helping you do better and be better in your career. Let's talk about interview nerves. If you are not nervous about going into an interview, you are some kind of supernatural being. Because everyone that I know feels nervous about job interviews. In saying that, I think that often your nerves can increase or become more intense, particularly if it's a role that you are very [00:02:00] interested in, and this can make things quite hard. So, what do you do about it? Well, let's talk about a few different options.

[00:02:07] The first thing that I would suggest to you to do is to ask yourself the question of like, what have you got planned before your interview? Are you going to work? And then you're gonna have to leave work and jump in the car, and then race, race, race to get there.

[00:02:21] And by the time you get to your interview, you're feeling quite flustered because of the fact that, you know, you haven't really left yourself enough time. I always say that you should absolutely leave enough time to get dressed, to prepare your clothes, to get yourself in the right headset to drive to the appointment or catch public transport, to find yourself a park, to walk from the park to wherever you need to be interviewed, and also to get abducted by aliens on the way, because you never know when you're going to get [00:03:00]caught in traffic or when you are going to make a mistake.

[00:03:03] There are so many different ways that you could get stuck and find yourself running late. So we just wanna make sure that you've got enough time. I did a really dumb thing once. I went to a job interview and I found a park, uh, in a parking station, and I still had heaps of time left over because of the fact that I'd left so much time. Right?

[00:03:33] And I sat in the car and I played Candy Crush to kill some time. And then finally I thought, okay, like I should probably get out of the car and go and find where I've gotta go. And so I got out of the car and I went out of the parking garage and onto the street. And it was at that moment that as I was looking around, I realized that the numbers in this street were a little bit cuckoo and they didn't quite [00:04:00] make sense.

[00:04:01] And where I thought the building was not where the building was. It was actually all the way at the other end of the street. So I had to start walking and walking and walking. And by the time I got to that job interview, I was now like a sweaty, flustered mess. And I look back on that and I think, yeah, like I didn't allow enough time. Perhaps I wasted the time by playing Candy Crush in the car. Who knows?

[00:04:34] But you will be so much less stressed and so much m