This Career Builder article outlines useful tips to reduce your anxiety going into an interview and increase your chances of getting your dream job. We’ve covered some of these before, but it never hurts to review them. The article also stresses something very important that deserves emphasis.
We naturally focus on our responses, our appearance and our general presentation. The danger is we become so focused on ourselves that we forget there is someone else in the room with us. Not only will recognizing that the interviewer is someone with her own pressures, demands, and anxieties help us relax, the act of thinking about the other person will take some of the edge off the initial stages of the interview.
Job interviews, like wedding proposals, are sales situations. Even if you never thought of yourself as a salesperson, you are. Doing your best to understand the other person’s needs and desires is one of the surest ways to make the sale!