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Why your English disappears during job interviews and how to fix it.

You know, you prepare for a job interview, you think you're ready.

You should get the job.

You can do the job, you know you can do the job.

But then you get into the job interview and all your English just seems to disappear like someone unplugs your brain.

What happens?

Why does this happen?

And how can you fix this?

So when you do a job interview in English, you speak naturally, effortlessly, fluently,

and of course, most importantly, confidently.

Because in job interviews, you know,

the interviewers, they're not just looking for what you say.

They're not just looking at what you say.

Like how you answer the question.

Like what exactly you say.

They're looking at how you do it.

Meaning your body language, your tone, your eye contact, the feeling, the emotion, your confidence.

And that's probably, if you want to look at the most important one in terms of emotion, they want to see confidence.

Most important, confident, as you answer the questions.

So it's not just about giving the perfect answer.

It's about doing it in a perfect way.

An answer that's not quite perfect,

but is confident, that is usually better than an exactly perfect answer that's not confident,

that doesn't sound confident, that you don't look confident when you say it.

They're also looking for friendliness.

And more important than friendliness is your kind of social abilities, right?

They want to feel a social connection,

like you can work with and communicate well with other people,

because most jobs require you to work with other people.

Now, if this is a job where it's just you alone, you're going to be working in a little office by yourself

or at home totally by yourself and never deal with another person, maybe they don't care about that.

But most jobs you need to deal with someone else.

You have to deal with your boss, right?

So they want to see and they want to feel,

more importantly, feel that you can and will have a good relationship with your boss.

You're not going to cause them problems.

And you're going to have a good relationship with the other people already working there, your co -workers.

And if this is a management position you're trying to get,

they want to definitely see that you know how to connect with people, have a good, warm relationship with people,

so you'll be a good manager, so you can manage other people under you at the job.

So they need to feel some of that warmth and human emotion and connection.

They want to see that also.

So confidence, right?

You know you can do the job.

You're confident you can do it.

You look and sound confident as you give your answers in the interview.

And then that warmth, that human connection, that emotional human connection.

They know where they feel that you are good with other people, that you'll be a good part of the team.

You're not going to cause problems, right?

Just to put it in a negative way, job interviewers, they're looking for problems.

They want to get rid of people who are going to cause problems. And why?

Because they've had bad experiences in the past where they hired the wrong people.

And those wrong people, what are the common problems?

Well, one common problem is they don't get along with it.

They cause problems with other people.

They fight with their co -workers.

They're backstabbed.

They're gossiping.

They don't do what the boss tells them to do.

They make the boss stressed out and have a bad relationship and bad communication with the boss.

They hate that.

They don't want that.

So they're looking for problems like that.

And then, of course, the other problem,

bad experiences that they had in the past are they hired the wrong person who couldn't really do the job.

They hired someone who they thought might do the job.

They're looking on their resume.

It seems like they should be good,

but then they get in the job and they're actually not good and they make mistakes and cause big problems.

Maybe cause a lot of time to be wasted, money to be wasted or lost.

They don't want that either.

Okay, so they're looking to avoid those problems in a job interview.

So I'm going to tell you exactly how to communicate these two things and to avoid your brain being unplugged,

because when your brain gets unplugged because you're stressed in this situation, and it is stressful, you don't sound confident and you don't connect.

So you fail both of those and you don't get the job.

All right, let's get into it.

This is the effortless English show with a joke.

Funny me and students, your English breakthrough starts now.

Okay, first let's talk about the cause of this, this feeling that your brain gets unplugged,

the feeling that you can't perform, you can't use what you know.

You know a lot of words in English, but then you get into a job interview and suddenly you can't remember them all,

especially when you need them or that you can speak quite well, you know, fairly fluently, good enough.

But then you get into the job interview and suddenly like you're not fluent anymore and you're struggling to communicate.

So why does it happen?

So this is a brain issue.

It's in your physical brain.

There's a part of your brain called the amygdala.

Amygdala.

The amygdala is, some people call it, fright or flight.

It's basically, or freeze is another reaction.

This is kind of the primitive, the very simple part of your brain,

emotional brain, when you're in danger that tells you to fight or flight means run away.

So fight, run away, or freeze.

These are the three things that happen.

These happen to animals, right?

Animals in danger like a rabbit.

What will it do? like that part of the rabbit's brain, the amygdala, the same part of the brain.

It's super stressed.

It's super afraid.

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So the rabbit is not in the person too.

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You're not going to think about anything else but survival.

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And when that happens, you have three basic choices.

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Most animals will do three things.

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They'll fight.

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If they can fight, they'll fight.

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If they think they can survive by fighting.

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If they don't think they can do that, like a rabbit against a wolf, They can't fight.

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So what do they do?

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Flight or run away, right?

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They run.

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That's what rabbits usually do.

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They run.

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Or sometimes they freeze, right?

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If they think the wolf hasn't seen them yet, they just freeze.

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They don't move at all, right?

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It's like they're just frozen there.

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They can't do anything.

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And they can't move.

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Right?

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And some animals do that.

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There's an animal in the United States called a possum, and that's their number one thing.

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When they're in danger, they freeze.

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They actually, they play dead.

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They'll just fall over and go, and pretend to be dead, right?

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They freeze under that super stress and fear.

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Well, as a human, same basic three responses we have, right?

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If you're really in danger, like if you were in the woods and a bear was coming to eat you, okay, attack you, your amygdala,

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that part is kind of deep down, kind of near the brain stem, the corner of the bottom,

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more of the brain, and it would start firing.

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And all your higher thinking, right?

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You wouldn't be thinking about philosophy or mathematics or foreign languages at that time, right?

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Your amygdala would take over your brain and you would just only think, fight, run, or freeze.

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That's it and you'd make that decision depending on your experiences and how big the bear was and how much,

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you know, if you had a gun or not, if you had a gun, maybe you'd start shooting and you'd fight, right?

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If you were scared of animals and lived in the city and never seen a bear before, you might freeze, not know what to do,

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just kind of, as the bear comes to get you.

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Or a lot of people just run like crazy.

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Right?

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Well, a job interview is, you're not going to die,

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but it is an extremely high stress situation if you really want the job and you really care.

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It's tough.

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Someone's sitting there staring at you, asking you all these weird questions.

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These are not normal life questions.

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You don't usually hear them.

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Not usually even questions you think about most of the time.

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And you know that every time you give an answer, they're grading you, right?

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They're looking for your weaknesses.

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You know that.

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They're looking for problems.

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They're looking for mistakes.

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And if you don't do well, you don't get the job.

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Maybe you don't have enough money, right?

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So it's not quite survival, but it is very high stress.

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And so just like with the bear, the amygdala starts that part of your brain, the survival part, the primitive,

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simple part kind of takes over, becomes very active.

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And when that happens, the higher parts of your brain, like the frontal lobe, which is the front part of your brain,

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which has kind of higher thinking, decision making, you know, philosophy, you know, all our kind of high,

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you know, great thoughts and even like things like foreign language, you know, all that kind of stuff.

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maybe doesn't turn off completely because it's not a bear, right?

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But it still becomes less.

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It kind of less energy.

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Specifically, what happens is less energy,

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less blood, less oxygen, less electrical energy goes to the high parts of the brain and more goes to the amygdala.

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So how does that feel?

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How it feels is that you feel like your thinking becomes more difficult.

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especially things like a foreign language, like English, or trying to solve some difficult problem,

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or give an answer to a strange or difficult or unusual or complicated question, right?

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That requires you to do all this problem solving and it's more abstract.

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All of that starts to feel difficult because

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that part of your brain is not getting as much energy as it usually does.

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And what happens is when your brain, you want to, what, fight, run away or freeze.

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Well, in a job interview, you're probably not going to fight.

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You're not going to punch the job interviewer in the face because you're stressed.

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You know, that's not good.

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And you're not going to get up and run out.

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Although some people will do this, right?

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Some people, not exactly that, but in a high stress situation, they'll just, they won't go or maybe they sit in the waiting room

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and when it's almost their turn they just leave before they get called.

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This happens with actors for example.

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An actor needs to go and audition, they need to go and stand in front of and do a speech or something for a play,

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but they get so scared then they just they run away

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and they don't before they before it's time for them to do it.

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But still most people won't run away.

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So what's the third one?

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Freeze!

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And that's the one that usually happens in job interviews.

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Again, it's not a bear, so it's usually not 100 % freezing, like where you can't talk, can't move, nothing.

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But what it does mean, it's kind of like a partial, a part freezing, where again, a lot of your brain slows down and doesn't work.

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Like, it's like it's not moving, it's not working.

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And you just kind of, right?

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It's a kind of freezing and this is what's happening in a job interview.

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So it's a physical thing happening in your brain.

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So it's not your fault.

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It's not your fault.

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It's normal.

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This happens to everybody under stress.

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Now the good news is we can train,

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we can practice and train for stressful situations so that this happens less,

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so that we can keep thinking at a higher level even during stress.

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Because if you practice a stressful situation again and again and again, it gets less stressful, becomes familiar.

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And then you're able to think more.

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I mean, this is what military training is about, right? Because what?

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That's actually life or death, right?

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You've got a gun, someone else, the other side has guns and they're shooting at you and the military,

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the army wants you to be able to stand up and shoot back and

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listen to what the officers are saying and do different things.

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But what most people want to do

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if they're getting shot at by bullets is want to jump on the ground and hide, right?

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Or run as fast as you can.

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So the military has to train that situation, practice and train it again and again and again

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and again with the soldiers so that they can think better in that high stress situation and perform better.

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It's a similar idea.

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Luckily a job interview is not as stressful.

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So let's get into some examples like for example number one common common question you know it tell me about yourself.

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So you get in, you're already nervous about the job situation in general, but these specific questions can shoot your stress up for different reasons.

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Why does it feel dangerous? Because it's completely open.

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It's an open question because most people don't know what to say.

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You could say anything.

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Well, I'm 200 centimeters tall.

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Tell me about yourself.

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What do you talk about?

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Exactly, right?

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It's so open and you know they're looking for mistakes.

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You know they're looking for weaknesses.

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You're not really sure what they want from this question.

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So that feels quite stressful and dangerous.

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That question will shoot up your stress.

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There's too many possible answers.

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So you're already in this stress situation and now your brain is just like,

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looking for answers to this incredibly vague, open question.

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So how do you overcome it?

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Through training, you need to practice this question, answering this question confidently in a warm,

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confident way again and again and again and again many times before the interview.

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And you want to do it, hopefully, in a higher stress situation.

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I'll tell you how to do that at the end.

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And then as you train more and more, then when you hear the question, instead of, you already know,

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well, I know what to say to this one.

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And that's the good news about job interviews is probably 90 % of the questions are used again

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and again and again in all job interviews.

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Tell me about yourself.

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What's your strength?

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What's your weakness?

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What's your plan for five years?

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Sometimes they throw in weird surprise questions, right?

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It does happen.

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But most of the questions will be standard, right?

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They'll be, they're not normal life questions, but they are pretty common and you can learn about them.

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In fact, I have a job interview guide.

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So I give you a formula exactly how to answer the top 21 job interview questions in English.

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I'll give you a formula.

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I'll tell you exactly, say exactly this for all of those, 21 of them.

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So it's my job interview guide for 21 perfect answers to job interview questions in English.

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Just comment jobs, J -O -B -S, comment jobs on my Instagram or on my YouTube,

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and I'll send you that guide.

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I'll send you a link to get it.

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It's got, it's a PDF guide, and I have each question, and then I tell you, This is why they're asking the question,

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and now this is exactly how to answer it to give a strong answer and get the job.

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And I do it for all those 21 questions.

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So you can use that guide, and it will help you train and practice really for any job interview.

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It'll work in your own language, but it'll definitely help you in English as well, especially in English.

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So get it comment jobs, comment jobs below on Instagram or YouTube.

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Okay, so let's get back to tell me about yourself.

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So, for example, you can use this exact formula.

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I'm a blank.

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It means blank is you have to put your information.

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So, I'm a, and then give your job title.

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I'm a computer programmer with, next blank, how many years of experience?

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With 10 years of experience in, and then whatever, industry. in the financial industry.

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What I'm most proud of is, and then you say one specific achievement, one specific success you had in your job.

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And that's it.

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That's the formula.

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And this is what my job interview guide gives you.

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So it just gives you a formula like this.

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They'll be blank, so you have to put your own information in there, but it tells you exactly what to do.

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So you just fill in your own information.

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What I recommend is you just write it out.

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Write it out for yourself.

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So you put, tell me about yourself, and then underneath, write out your answer.

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Use the formula from my guide and just put in your specific information in the blanks for the formula.

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And then after that, you'll practice it and study it.

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So it's all in your head and it'll come out even when you're stressed.

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So another example, skill questions.

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Right?

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A skill question.

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So you can freeze here because your brain is again, you're stressed, but your brain needs to search through a lot of years of experience.

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I think skill questions are a little easier if you're good at what your job, but still, you know, they might...

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ask you, you know, like, you know, like, tell me about a time when you,

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you know, wrote a great program.

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I'm not a computer programmer, but, you know, tell me about, you know, a software project you worked on.

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Now, again, if you don't practice for this, if you don't prepare for it, you might have too many things in your head.

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You might think, well, that's an easy question for me to answer.

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I I have experience.

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I've done a lot of things.

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And in normal life, it would be an easy question.

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But when you're stressed out in a job interview, you might suddenly find your brain freezes.

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It's like public speaking, standing on a stage.

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You should be able to just stand there and talk to the people normally.

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What's the problem?

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But the problem is stress when all those people are looking at you.

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And suddenly, you can't talk the way you used to.

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And the same thing can happen here.

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Suddenly, you have so many years of experience, you can't think of an example quickly, like your brain's turning off.

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So you want to practice it.

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Pick one or pick a couple, right?

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And you want to write it down and prepare, right?

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Use the formula in my guide.

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And, you know, there's a formula called the STAR method.

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There's another formula called the CER method, C -E -R.

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The STAR method is this, situation, task, action, result.

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This is very standard, okay?

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So situation, you'd say, the situation is when and where did you do this?

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So you'd say, in my previous company at IBM, right?

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My previous job, in my job before at IBM.

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Task, you say, what did you do?

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I needed to make a better database program.

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Action, the next part of the formula.

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So I decided to.

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What did you do?

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What did you contribute?

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What problem did you solve?

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I decided to whatever.

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Some technical thing.

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Okay.

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And then finally result, the most important part of this formula, result.

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The result was fewer database crashes and the company, we saved $10 ,000.

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because we didn't need to waste time fixing crashes as much.

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I don't know, something like that, right?

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I'm giving a technical example.

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I'm not a programmer myself, but you get the idea.

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That result part is the most important part, right?

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Why is it important, right?

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Because some people will say, well, you know, at my last job, I don't know, say you're a security guard.

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At my last job, you know, I would stand in front of the building and make sure there were no problems.

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And, you know, that you're just describing what you did. So what?

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That doesn't make you special in any way.

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But if you say, well, my last job, I was security guard at a software company.

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And, you know, every during the day, I would have to go around and around the building every hour.

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And one time there was this like crazy person on drugs and he was trying to break into one of the windows.

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And I had to grab him and put him on the ground and hold him.

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And then I was able to hold him down and call the police.

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The police came and solved the problem.

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So the company, I saved the company from being broken into.

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They didn't have any damage to their building.

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Right?

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You see, right?

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That's the result.

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The result is the benefit to the company.

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There was no damage to the building or whatever.

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Right?

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The action is you held them down.

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So that's a good little formula you can use as well, especially for skill questions.

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Again, I've got all this in my interview guide.

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Just comment jobs, J -O -B -S, on Instagram or YouTube, and you'll get that guide, a link to the guide.

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Okay, now the next one, the next kind of question is probably the toughest.

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Some people call this a curveball.

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This comes from baseball slang.

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A curveball is in baseball one person throws the ball the pitcher

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and the other one tries to hit it and a curveball and

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when the person throws it instead of it going straight

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it curves it goes in kind of like it can it moves

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and like a like a part it curves around

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so harder to hit it

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because it's the ball's not just coming straight in it's moving in a like a half circle

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so a curveball just mean a curveball question.

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If you say, oh, that question was a curveball, it just means unexpected, surprise, strange.

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So this is when they...

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just ask you some question and you have never thought of this question before.

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It's a question, you've never seen it in any job interview guides.

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You've never seen it in any job interview books.

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You've never heard of it.

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And they'll do this.

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Why are they doing it?

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Why do they ask a weird curveball question?

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Right?

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Like, let's just say they say, if you were making a milkshake,

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would it be better to make a chocolate, vanilla, or strawberry milkshake?

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That would be a super weird question, right, for a job interview.

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If you're interviewing to be, again, a computer programmer, and they ask you that question, you'd be like, what the hell?

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Right?

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Super weird.

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So why would they ask a question?

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You got to think, are they just being weird for no reason?

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They're trying to see how you react to surprises.

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They want to see how do you deal with stress and unknown things happening and surprises happening.

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They want to see will you panic, will you freak out, will you freeze, or you just stay cool and calm.

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And the truth is, for this kind of weird question, it really doesn't matter what you say.

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The answer is, there's no right answer to this, right?

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The point is not, what is the answer?

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The point is how you react.

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Do you stay calm and confident or do you get kind of freaked out and stressed out, right?

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So some people might, you know, maybe they're doing well and they're answering all the technical questions.

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They're answering the skill questions.

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They're ready.

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They get some weird question about milkshakes and they might just go, um, uh, and right.

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And their eyes start kind of, uh, and they start, uh, uh, uh, and they don't know what to say.

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And you can see all their confidence just falls apart.

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and that's what the job interviewer is looking for.

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They're like, ah, if something unexpected happens, this person falls apart.

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This person can't handle it.

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They, uh.

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So the number one thing for this is to stay calm and you don't have to answer fast.

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Just, you know, you can kind of stall and that's what I recommend is a little politician technique.

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It's something politicians do many, many, many times.

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You've all seen this on the news.

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A politician, a president, a congressperson, anybody, some political person.

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They get asked a difficult question.

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What do they do?

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They answer a different question.

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They don't even answer it.

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They avoid it.

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They'll just say, here's a good phrase.

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Say it like this.

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Hmm, that's interesting.

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That reminds me of, and then just talk about anything you want.

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Right?

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You say, that reminds me of.

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You slow down you can pause and say, well, let me think.

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That's fine.

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You can say, let me think.

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Right?

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Give yourself a minute.

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Don't get so panicked that you just feel like you got to

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start talking nonstop because that's when you'll just start talking crazy, right?

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Just say, hmm, well, let me think.

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That's interesting.

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Well, that reminds me of.. and then just talk about anything it reminds me of.

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It reminds you of.

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So instead of answering the question, what milkshake is the best to make.

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You could just say, you know, that reminds me of, you know, I took my kids to an ice cream shop a couple months ago and,

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you know, they were, they wanted to get milkshakes and they were kind of arguing over which milkshake to get.

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We were going to share one and,

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you know, I had to sit down and discuss with them how we got to work as a team and that,

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you know, we can't always get exactly what we want and basically mediate,

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help them solve the conflict and find a solution, a compromise where they would both be happy.

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So I didn't even answer the question exactly, did I?

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But I did give an answer that is actually useful for a job, solving a conflict, working together, right?

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And it was only a little bit connected to the actual question.

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So for curveball questions, totally fine to do that.

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In fact, you probably should do that.

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Salary.

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This is a great question, by the way.

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If they start asking you about salary, that's a positive.

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Does it mean you got the job?

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No, but it means they're at least thinking about you.

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Because if they're not thinking about you, if they decide absolutely not, they're not even gonna mention salary probably

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so why does this one create stress well

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because money right money plus you're talking in English plus there's authority the person you know and different cultures,

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different people get uncomfortable talking about money.

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And maybe you're taught, oh, I shouldn't be greedy and ask for too much.

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And what if I ask for too much?

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What if I don't ask for enough?

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And so what you want to do is, once again, this is in my job interview guide, Comet Jobs, J -O -B -S.

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But I'll give you the basic ideas.

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You want to give a range.

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This is really simple, right?

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At this point, they're not offering you the job yet.

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If they offer you the job, you start negotiating your salary.

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But often they'll just say something like, well, what are you looking for for salary?

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Something vague like that.

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Why do they ask that?

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They want to see if you want too much or too little.

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If you say too little, they think, oh, maybe you're actually not so good.

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Right?

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Otherwise, you would ask for more.

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If you ask for too much, they think, well, this person is too expensive for us.

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They're overqualified.

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So, of course, the easy way to do it is another like politician trick is you just give the range.

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You give a low to a high range and then just say something in the middle.

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Then you're saying, well, you can say based on my experience and my research.

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So you can say, you know, you research this job and you have experience, right?

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I'm looking at a range.

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I'm looking at a range of X to Y.

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I'm looking at a range of $10 ,000 to $20 ,000 a month.

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Make it a fairly big range.

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Because then, especially if you really need and want this job, well, probably it's going to fall somewhere in the middle.

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So let's say the company might be thinking, we want to pay about $11 ,000 a month.

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So if you say, I'm looking for $8 ,000, it sounds like you're too low.

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If you say, I want $20 ,000, you sound way too high.

479

But how can you guess?

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Sometimes they tell you exactly how much.

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It might be in the ad.

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But sometimes they don't tell you what the salary is, and you don't want to guess wrong.

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It's impossible to guess exactly.

484

So just give a big range, and then later you can negotiate if they offer you a job.

485

Okay, finally, the close, the ending.

486

Why is this tough at the end of the interview?

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What do they usually ask?

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Do you have any questions?

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Do you have any questions?

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This is a typical way for them to answer.

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Okay, well, that's all we have.

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Do you have any questions?

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And a lot of times people say, oh, no, no, I'm okay.

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But you want to, and why do people do that?

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Because they're just like, oh, finally, right?

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You're stressed out.

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Your adrenaline pumping that gives you energy.

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It's probably getting low now.

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And you're probably starting to get tired.

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And you just want to get out of there.

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You're like, oh, finally, it's over.

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So naturally, what a lot of people want to do is just say, no, I don't have any questions.

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And then just get out.

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Or ask one stupid, lame question, some fake question you don't care about.

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But most people don't even ask a question.

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Because they just want to get out of there which I understand, but it's not going to hurt you if you do that,

507

but you'll have a stronger finish.

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You want to finish strong.

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Start strong, finish strong, because that's what they remember.

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They remember the last time they saw you.

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So you want to finish strong, so you want to have a question that makes you look good.

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Because remember, it's all about making yourself look good.

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So the purpose of having a good question at the end or good questions is just to impress them.

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Right?

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To make yourself stand out, be different, look better.

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So this is not the time to negotiate.

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This is important, okay?

518

Really important.

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Because another mistake people make is at the end of the first interview, at the end of the interview, they'll ask questions like, well,

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how much vacation is there? or, you know, how many sick days do I get or do I have to work overtime?

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They start trying to ask about benefits, basically.

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Big mistake.

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Don't do that now because you're in a weak position, okay?

524

You're in a weak position still because they have not offered you a job.

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When they offer you a job, that's the time to ask about benefits, time off, and not only ask about it, but negotiate it.

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So if they want you, if they say, hey, we want to offer you the job, we like you, that's the time you say,

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okay, well, in that case, what are your benefits?

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Do you have health insurance?

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How much vacation time every year?

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And if they say, well, you get one week of vacation a year, you could say, well, you know, actually I'm looking for more than that.

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And you can start maybe again, you can get more.

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Okay.

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But don't do that now.

534

Don't do that before they offer you a job.

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You don't want to do that in the interview.

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You want to do that in the negotiation after an offer.

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So what's the kind of question?

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You want to ask them questions about their business.

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You know, what's the biggest project you're working on now?

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What is the biggest problem you're experiencing right now in your department or in your company or on your team?

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Well, what's the most important trait, the most important thing you're looking for in a new person?

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You know, what's the number one thing I could add to your team that would make your team better?

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These are the kind of questions you want to ask at this point, at the end of the interview.

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All right.

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So finally, at the point, you've got all these little formulas.

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You get my guide.

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It's free, by the way.

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It's a free guide, of course.

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Free.

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It's free.

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Just comment jobs, J -O -B -S, below get a link, go there, download the guide.

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In the guide, you'll get 21 interview questions.

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I recommend write them down, okay?

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Write them down and put in your information.

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There'll be blanks, right?

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There'll be spots to put in your own information.

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Just use the formulas and put in your own information.

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But then that's step one.

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But that's not enough, right?

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Because step two is practicing.

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It's not enough just to write it out because in the job interview, you might forget it all.

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Right?

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Especially under stress.

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So step two is you need to practice those questions under stress.

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How do you do that?

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Here's what I recommend.

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What happens when you get stressed?

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Your breathing gets higher, faster.

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Your heartbeat gets faster.

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Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum.

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Right?

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So you can actually kind of imitate this with just some exercise.

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So here's what I recommend.

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Put on some exciting music.

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Jump up and down in the room.

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Jump, jump, jump, jump.

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As high as you can.

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And try to get your heart rate and your breathing high, high, high.

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As high as you can.

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You want to be like, Okay, if you want to go outside and run some sprints, run for 30 seconds as fast as you can.

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Rest for 20 seconds.

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And then run another 30 seconds as fast as you can.

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get your heart rate and your breathing high high high then come in

584

get your paper with your job interview answers okay let your breathing slow down enough until you can talk

585

but your heart's still beating

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and then practice giving your answers right read out the question tell me about yourself tell me about yourself

587

and then give your answer while your heart's beating hard and fast while you're still breathing a little bit heavily

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and when you give your answer have your shoulders back your head up put a smile on your face even

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if it's a fake smile put a smile on your face try to be warm and confident warm and confident

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while you give your answers and then you know when your heart rate calms down enough you start feeling relaxed

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Do it again.

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Jump, jump, jump, or sprint, whatever you need to do.

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Get your heart rate back up high, and then do the next few questions.

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Keep doing that, so that every time you practice answering these job interview questions, you're doing it when your heart is beating fast.

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This seems simple, but you will be amazed how powerful this is.

596

This is incredible.

597

What do most people do?

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Most people practice just sitting down.

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They got their, let's say they have their, a book about job interviews, or they've got, they've written down some answers, and they'll just kind of,

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you know, read the question and then they'll give their answer.

601

Maybe they'll ask someone else to read the question and then they'll give their answer to them.

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They might do it where they're, they try to give a good answer and they practice with a little bit of energy.

603

Some people do that, which is better, but it's still not the best.

604

But still, that whole time, what's the problem?

605

It's just practice.

606

It's just your friend or, you know, your roommates asking you the question.

607

You're in a relaxed place.

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There's no stress at all.

609

Your heartbeat is not going to be up.

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You're not going to be breathing heavy at all.

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You're not going to.. have any kind of physical reaction or stress?

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None.

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Because you know there's no fear in that moment.

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It's hard to make yourself be afraid in that moment when you're practicing, but what you can do is copy,

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create the physical reactions of fear, heart rate and breathing.

616

It's so powerful.

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When you do this, when you practice in this way,

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by doing sprints or jumping up and down really hard and getting your heart rate really high.

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Then you practice your questions and your answers again and again and again.

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You need to do this for a couple of weeks, okay?

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Not just one day.

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You need to do this for a few weeks, especially if you're trying to get tough jobs where your interviews might be quite difficult.

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You do this, what you're going to find is you'll go into the job interview and yeah,

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your heart's going to be beating, especially the first interview.

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It's going to be beating faster.

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You're going to feel some of that nervous energy, but guess what?

627

You're used to performing when you feel that way.

628

You're used to giving calm, warm, confident answers when your heart's beating fast, when your breathing is a little fast.

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So it's not going to bother you.

630

Most people, if they freak out because they've been calm, calm, calm before the interview, suddenly they call their name, they go into the room,

631

the heart starts beating faster.

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They're feeling all these weird stress feelings in their body and they freak out, right?

633

Makes them more and more nervous and afraid.

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They don't know how to handle those feelings right in the middle of the job interview while they're getting asked questions.

635

But you will know because you've practiced and you've practiced and you've practiced feeling that way.

636

This is nothing new.

637

It's just like the soldiers in the army training.

638

It's the idea.

639

Right?

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You're used to your heart beating fast when you talk about job interview questions, when you give your answers.

641

You're used to smiling and appearing confident and sounding confident and giving great answers when your heart's beating fast.

642

You're used to it.

643

And because you're used to it, what's also going to happen is that after you do one or two job interviews and you do great,

644

and you realize, whoa, I'm ready for this, you're actually going to start to feel more calm.

645

Your heart actually won't beat so fast anymore.

646

You won't feel so nervous anymore.

647

And after you do several job interviews practicing like this, you actually will just start to feel quite calm and confident.

648

You won't even need to pretend anymore.

649

You'll just walk in and you'll be calm.

650

You'll be confident.

651

You'll be warm.

652

It'll just happen automatically.

653

But you got to train it first.

654

And that's like the situation of a soldier, what they call a veteran soldier, right?

655

A soldier who's been in a lot of battles, right?

656

They've been fighting for one year, two years, lots and lots of fights and battles and now they go into the fight

657

and they're quite calm compared to the new guys, right?

658

They're not as afraid anymore.

659

They think clearly, right?

660

That's how you will be in job interviews.

661

And then you get the great situation where you get more and more and more job offers.

662

Because just getting one job offer, okay, it's nice if you don't have a job.

663

Yeah, you want a job and you need some money.

664

But it's a much better situation to have five job offers at the same time.

665

Five different companies who say they want you.

666

Come join us.

667

Because now when you have five job offers, now you can really negotiate and you can figure out which is the best.

668

And you can get the most money and the best benefits.

669

Because if one company is trying to be cheap, then you can say, well, you know, I'm talking to this other company.

670

They've offered me a job too.

671

Don't lie, but if it's true, then certainly tell them.

672

So if they say, yeah, we want to offer you $15 ,000 a month and we'll give you one week vacation a year,

673

you can say, well, you know, I like your company.

674

Honestly, you're my first choice.

675

But this other company is offering me $20 ,000 a year and three weeks vacation every year.

676

and really that's important to me.

677

I want to be paid what I'm worth

678

and I work hard and I feel that having some vacation and rest time is important.

679

So you can negotiate like this and then you can go to the best company

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and get the best benefits and then they start negotiating

681

and you get different companies trying to pay you more and give you more benefits.

682

It's great.

683

It will happen.

684

But you got to practice this in this way, okay?

685

You got to train yourself.

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It's not enough just to read some books about job interviews.

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It's not enough even just to, you know, practice answering the questions sometimes.

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You got to do it in this way with that heart rate beating fast.

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And you need to use the formulas I give you in my job interview guide.

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So one last time, comment jobs, J -O -B -S, below.

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That's Instagram and YouTube.

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And you'll get a link.

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Download this job interview guide.

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It's got a formula for 21, the 21 top most common job interview questions, exactly how to answer a formula.

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And I just told you how to practice after you have that.

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All right, lots of love to you.

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You will get great jobs.

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And you'll get yourself into this great situation.

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This is the situation you want.

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multiple job offers, many job offers, not one company saying they want you, three companies saying they want you, four companies saying we want you,

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five companies saying we want you, we want to hire you, you're the one we want.

702

That puts you in such a strong position in your career and you will do it.

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All right, comment jobs below.

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Get my free job interview guide in English.

705

Comment jobs, J -O -B -S.

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Lots of love to you.

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See you next time.

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Bye for now.

709

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Этот урок разговорной практики построен на видео «Your Brain Shuts Down in Interviews — Here's the 60-Second Fix». В этом видео 709 предложений и 7210 слов для шедоуинга. Речь длится 47:04. Говорящий говорит в естественном темпе, около 153 слов в минуту, близком к повседневной речи. 91% слов входят в 3000 самых частых слов английского языка, поэтому лексика простая. Вопросов здесь 128 из 709 предложений, так что это хорошая тренировка вопросительной интонации и коротких ответов.

Ключевая лексика этого видео

15 слов из видео, которые стоит выучить, с произношением и значением:

Слово	Произношение	Значение
formula существительное	/ˈfɔː.mjʊ.lə/	фо́рмула
freeze глагол	/ˈfɹiːz/	замерза́ть, замёрзнуть
breathe глагол	/bɹiːð/	дыша́ть
negotiate глагол	/nəˈɡəʊ.ʃi.eɪt/	вести́ перегово́ры, провести́ перегово́ры
solve глагол	/sɒlv/	реша́ть, реши́ть
vacation существительное	/veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/	о́тпуск, кани́кулы
remind глагол	/ɹəˈmaɪnd/	напомина́ть, напо́мнить
salary существительное	/ˈsæləɹi/	за́работная пла́та, зарпла́та
blank существительное	/ˈblæŋk/	загото́вка, болва́нка
stressful прилагательное	/ˈstɹɛsfəl/	напряжённый, стре́ссовый
skill существительное	/skɪl/	уме́ние, на́вык
hire глагол	/ˈhaɪɹ/	брать напрока́т, взять напрока́т
rabbit существительное	/ˈɹæbɪt/	кро́лик, крольчи́ха
programmer существительное	/ˈpɹoʊɡɹæmɚ/	программи́ст, программи́стка
interviewer существительное	/ˈɪntɚvjuɚ/	интервью́ер, опра́шивающий

Фразовые глаголы, которые вы услышите

Слово	Значение
run away глагол	сматываться, убега́ть
slow down глагол	замедля́ть, заме́длить
fall apart глагол	распада́ться, распа́сться
sit down глагол	сади́ться, сесть
take over глагол	брать на себя́, взять на себя́
turn off глагол	выключа́ть, вы́ключить
back up глагол	дава́ть за́дний ход
calm down глагол	успока́иваться, успоко́иться

Фразы, которые стоит повторять

Короткие законченные фразы из видео, которые пригодятся в повседневном разговоре:

What do you talk about?
What's your plan for five years?
I'm a computer programmer with, next blank, how many years of experience?
Task, you say, what did you do?
What if I don't ask for enough?

Грамматика в этом видео

Конструкции, которые говорящий использует чаще всего, с точными словами из видео:

Конструкция	В видео
Условные предложения if + предложение, will/would + глагол — условие и его результат	If they can fight, they'll fight · if you had a gun, maybe you'd start
Present Perfect have/has + причастие прошедшего времени — прошлое действие, важное сейчас	they've had · hasn't seen · I've done
Пассивный залог be + причастие прошедшего времени — важно, что происходит, а не кто это делает	be wasted · being unplugged · are used
Придаточные определительные who / which + предложение — уточнение о человеке или предмете	people who are · person who couldn · someone who they

Произношение, на которое стоит обратить внимание

Говорящий использует 250 сокращённых и редуцированных форм, например you're, they're, don't. Произносите их коротко, так, как слышите.

Звуки «th»: breathe /bɹiːð/, warmth /wɔɹmθ/, bother /ˈbɑðɚ/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/
Звуки «sh» и «zh»: negotiate /nəˈɡəʊ.ʃi.eɪt/, vacation /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, politician /ˌpɑ.ləˈtɪʃ.ən/, unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/
Длинные слова — следите за ударением: negotiate /nəˈɡəʊ.ʃi.eɪt/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/, politician /ˌpɑ.ləˈtɪʃ.ən/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, unexpected /ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪd/

Звуки, трудные для русскоязычных:

/w/ — губы округлены, это не /v/: weakness /ˈwik.nɪs/, wolf /wʊlf/, warmth /wɔɹmθ/, whoa /woʊ/
/h/ — лёгкий выдох, а не русское «х»: hire /ˈhaɪɹ/, heartbeat /ˈhɑɹtˌbit/
Звонкие согласные в конце слова — не оглушайте их: freeze /ˈfɹiːz/, solve /sɒlv/, remind /ɹəˈmaɪnd/, pretend /pɹəˈtɛnd/, unexpected /ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪd/

Как заниматься с этим видео

Прослушайте всё видео один раз молча и выпишите незнакомые слова.
Начните со скорости 0,75×, повторяйте предложение за предложением и вернитесь к обычной скорости, когда станет легко.
Запишите себя и сравните с оригиналом, обращая внимание на такие слова, как formula, freeze, breathe.

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Лексика и советы по произношению к этому уроку

Ключевая лексика этого видео

Фразовые глаголы, которые вы услышите

Фразы, которые стоит повторять

Грамматика в этом видео

Произношение, на которое стоит обратить внимание

Как заниматься с этим видео

Что такое техника Shadowing?