Not Gaining Pleasure from Job Interviews

Job interviews can be formidable experiences. Most people that are employed have had some sort of interview and many do not enjoy the experience. Here are a few issues you may have faced.

The night before the interview you diligently sit down and get ready. It might be the pay, the conditions or simply you hate your current role, but you are desperate for this new job.

You try all those tricks you have read on the internet about calming down by imagining the interviewer naked. It works for a few moments until you realise that your interview might be doing the same. You barely look at your CV as you fill your mind full of those negative thoughts like hundreds of people have better CVs or an uncle in the company or are just confident and slick with their language.

Having barely read through your CV you go to bed to dream of turning up to the interview naked. Morning comes round too soon and you are rushing out the door to get there on time. You arrive at the company just on time flustered, dishevelled and out of breath. Wheezing the name of your interviewer at the receptionist you get the clear idea that she thinks you are some crazed maniac as you suddenly go blank when she asks for your name.

The wizened old hag that is your interviewer eventually comes to show you to the interview room. Every time she smiles you feel as if someone has died. In an attempt to build rapport you babble about traffic, the weather and strangely drift into the socio economic policies of Thailand. She looks confusedly at you and you let the subject drift.

You eventually make it to the interview room and the old crone offers you a coffee. After spending a few minutes wiping yourself down from the coffee you just spilt down your front the old crone asks if you are ready to start the interview proper. She then says something like, "Just as a nice gentle start, talk me through your CV."

You mind immediately flicks through to if this is a gentle start what happens when it gets rough? You then realise that you didn't bring any copies of your CV and can barely remember anything on it. After a few minutes of aimless wittering about your favourite holidays you get the distinct impression that she thinks you have faked your CV.

The old crone decides to focus you in on some key areas by asking why you want to leave your current employment. You fumble around trying not to admit that you hate the company, the work and your boss and eventually hit on a "looking for fresh challenges" answer. Annoyingly she asks what sort of fresh challenges you think her company will give you.

In panic you try to think of her as naked…suddenly realise that is not a good idea and then start thinking she might be thinking of you the same way. Now you have forgotten the question and sit there with your mouth opening and closing like a frenzied guppy. And so the interview stumbles on for what seems like an eternity.

At the point where you have lost all feeling in your extremities your old cow tells you that this is your chance to ask questions as she has finished hers. Trying to appear keen you ask her how soon will the organisation make a decision. Having answered your question she shows you out and you leave hoping beyond hope that they offer you the job.

I am certain that most people will have had some of this experience. What would be like if you could remain focused, calm and take control of the interview? How about implanting suggestions in to the interviewer's head that you are the ideal candidate for the job with every answer? Or even coming in to the interview quietly confident but also dramatically building the rapport between you and the interviewer?

Sound impossible? Perhaps not, many of these skills are naturally occurring and you have definitely seen others do this as part of their daily lives.

Think about circumstances where you have met someone just strolling through life getting what everything, including the jobs they want. These are the people using these skills, sometimes naturally, sometimes they have been trained. In the majority of situations these skills only take a few hours to learn

It will only take a couple of hours of CV Writing to add lots of psychological and NLP pulling power. After this your CV will gain you more interviews than you could handle. Working through a Hypnotic Interview Answer Formula may take two hours, but the gains are incredible. You will have the skill for life and be able to apply it to many more situations.

Learning to build rapport, maintain your composure and banish interview nerves doesn't sound easy but could take as little as thirty minutes.The only question is how much people are prepared to devote to mastering these interview skills because just a couple of hours is the difference between a great job and just the job you are doing now.

To find out about Job Search Technqiues using NLP and Hypnosis you can go to The NLP Company website maintained by Rintu Basu. Rintu has developed a downloadable Hypnotic Interview Techniques Course as well as maintaining a high quality coaching practice and delivering exclusive NLP Training Courses for the NLP Scotland Business Community.