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The five questions that decide your career.

Five questions!

That's all that stands between you and the job you want.

The same five questions in every email.

Learn how to answer these questions powerfully and how to manage your brain,

how to manage the stress, the anxiety, the nervousness.

And then you have a big advantage to create the career you want to get the jobs you want.

That's today's topic.

This is the effortless English show with a joke Funny million students,

your English breakthrough starts now Okay, so what are these five questions?

You'll see them in every interview prep book website everywhere.

You know them, you've heard all these questions before.

So the good news is that these questions will not be a surprise in the job interview.

The bad news is that even though it's not a surprise, even though everyone knows these questions will be asked in almost every job interview,

certainly some of them in every job interview.

Yet people answer them so badly, they're still not prepared to give a good answer.

Or maybe they have a good answer in their head that they thought about.

But when the interview happens, they're so nervous, they can't actually get the best answer out.

They give an answer that's not so good.

That happened to me many times in my life.

Of course, I would read books and things about how to answer questions in interviews.

And what are these questions?

Tell me about yourself. So common.

What is your greatest strength?

What is your greatest weakness?

Why do you want to work here?

And then solve a problem.

So this is one that can be asked in many different ways.

But tell me about a time when you solved a problem at a job.

or tell me about a difficulty you overcame or they can, how they ask the question, the words they use might be different,

but basically it's asking you, tell me about a time when you solved a problem, okay?

And actually there can be a lot of these kind of questions in most interviews

and they'll ask them in different ways because this is a very important topic for the interviewer, for the company.

They want to know you can solve problems.

And so what would happen is I would, you know, I'd write down some, what I thought was a great answer to these.

Tell me about yourself.

And I'd write it out in a notebook and I'd just kind of try to memorize it and study it, right?

What is my greatest strength, you know?

And I'd try, I'd write out some answer.

Sometimes kind of, actually, I look back, I realize my answers were not that good.

Many of the times they were kind of foolish and stupid.

But anyway, I thought they were good at the time.

But the problem is that in the actual job interview, I would be so nervous that...

And it would be happening so quickly that when they would actually ask me the question, because they'd ask me other stuff, they'd just talk first.

Hey, how you doing?

Oh, yeah, where are you from?

You know, like little small talk questions or something.

And while chatting with them, and just doing the small talk questions.

And I would kind of forget.

I'd be so nervous that I would just forget all those perfect answers that I'd written down.

And when they finally asked me the question, what's your greatest weakness?

And I might remember part of my answer, but I wouldn't remember the whole long thing.

and so I'd say some short little answer

and it would be not that good and I wouldn't get the job offer, right?

And this would happen again and again with all the questions.

So even when you know what the question is, you know it's coming, you know they're going to ask you some of these questions, probably all of these questions.

So you need to at least be ready for these five.

These are probably the five most common, you know, according to various websites and research about,

you know, the most common job interview questions.

You might see others mentioned, but these five are certainly super common.

So there's two points to this.

Number one, what is a great answer?

Right.

Like I said, when I was young, I thought I was giving good answers, but actually, no. I look back, I realize my answers were not so good, what I was saying.

And the second thing is how you say it.

And that is, you know, remembering the whole thing, dealing with stress, basically.

Dealing with the stress, and then what do you actually say?

And you have to deal with both of those things

to give a good job interview answer and to do well in the job interview overall.

So let's go through each one and talk about why they might make you nervous, first of all.

You're nervous already just about the whole job interview.

They ask you, tell me about yourself.

And this can be a trigger for anxiety.

Trigger means something like on a gun, right?

It's something that makes something happen quickly.

So they ask the question, and you might suddenly feel this increase in your nervousness and anxiety.

Why?

That seems like it should be something you could easily do.

Talk about yourself.

But of course, the problem is that you have so many choices and you could talk about so many different things.

And the reason you're afraid is you're afraid of saying something bad.

You're afraid that talking about yourself, that you might accidentally say something they don't like.

Right.

Because we all know we're not perfect.

So we all know there are things that, you know, and it could be even something small.

Right.

Like if you gave maybe kind of a foolish answer, but let's just say you said, yeah, I'm a Manchester United fan.

I like watching football, soccer.

Obviously, it's not something you probably would say in a job interview.

But if you did, maybe you're so nervous you just say that out loud because you just love soccer.

What's the problem with that kind of answer?

The problem is maybe they're, you know, an Arsenal fan or something.

Maybe they hate Manchester United.

Maybe they have a bad opinion about soccer fans or football fans in general.

Who knows, right?

There's all kinds of people out there.

So you obviously would want to avoid anything like that, any kind of answer that's too personal, right?

And of course, this can also be even within job situations.

You have to be careful because you don't want to say certain things that might be a trigger for the job interviewer, the person asking the questions,

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that they might not like you for some reason.

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So that's why you get the nervousness because you say, oh, talk about yourself.

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And in the back of your head, you're worried that you might say the wrong thing, right?

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So you don't want to say too much.

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This is why they ask the question, by the way.

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Because you might think like, well, why do they ask a question like that?

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It seems like a not a it's so vague.

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It's not specific.

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Like, why would somebody just say, tell me about yourself?

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It seems like a weird thing to ask for a job.

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But this is why, because you have to realize that the person asking asking the questions, the job interviewer, they kind of have two goals.

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There's two things they're trying to do in the interview.

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It's different.

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You have a job.

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You're trying to make them think you're great and offer you a job.

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What are they trying to do?

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Well, number one, they're looking for someone who's going to be great.

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They're looking for someone who's going to be a great employee, right?

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Who's going to be really good at the job that they're hiring for.

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And we all know that and we kind of think about that.

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But what people forget sometimes is the other thing

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that person's doing is they're looking to find bad people so they can get rid of them.

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So they're looking for people not to hire people to say no. In fact, they need to do that because let's say they're interviewing, I don't know, 20 people.

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They can only hire one.

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So they need to get rid of 19.

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They're looking for mistakes.

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They're looking for problems.

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They know, of course, they know everybody's trying to look good in an interview, right?

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They're not stupid.

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They know that everybody's going to try to give a perfect answer.

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They know that nobody's going to try to make themselves look bad.

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They know you're not going to be 100% honest, right?

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Nobody is going to be completely honest in a job interview.

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They know you're trying to make yourself look great.

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They know you're trying to hide anything bad about yourself.

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So it's part of their interviewing, especially if they're good, if they're a good interviewer,

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they're skilled, is trying to find your weaknesses, your real weaknesses.

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and so they ask these kind of very open questions

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because they want you to just talk and talk and talk because when people are nervous

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some people will just clam up and say nothing but a lot of people will just start talking, talking, talking and they say too much and that's how they kind of,

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they'll let out information they usually would not, right?

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They might let out bad stuff they might show their weaknesses

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if you just if the interviewer can just get you talking enough they're hoping

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that they can find the bad people by just giving you these kind of open questions

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and that you'll just start talking talking talking talking talking

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and then in somewhere in there you're going to say something they don't like

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and you're gone

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so that's the long explanation of why they do it here's

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the point you want to give a nice short answer not too long

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they don't need to know anything about you personally don't talk

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about your personal life it's a job interview they don't need to know what kind of sports you like

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or what your hobbies are or anything about your family

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or nothing about

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that it needs to be focused on job only only only only three sentences three sentences

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and you can use a general formula you'll there there are

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a couple formulas you'll find on websites job interviews uh they're

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basically the same formula just said in a different way but the short version is C-E-R, claim, evidence, relevance.

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And this is a formula you can use for every single job interview question.

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So number one, sentence one, you make a claim.

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What is a claim?

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You're saying basically, I'm good at this.

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I did this, right?

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You're saying I did something or I'm good at something.

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You're saying something about yourself.

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It's a claim, right?

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It's a statement is another way you can make say it.

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You're a statement.

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So you say, you know, I'm a manager with 10 years of experience in the computer industry.

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That's a statement.

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Right?

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You could even say, you know,

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I have five years of being a highly rated, excellent manager.

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That would be, I think, an even stronger answer.

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Now, if you're going to say, I'm highly rated and I'm excellent, guess what?

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You need to have evidence for that.

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You don't just say all these great things about yourself if you have no evidence, right?

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Because anybody can say that.

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Yeah, I'm a super manager.

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I'm terrific.

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I'm the best manager in the whole world.

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Okay, you can say that, but they're going to immediately, that's going to be a negative.

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They're going to look at you badly if you don't have evidence, if you don't have something to prove it.

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So this is where you have to balance your answers.

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You, of course, want to make yourself look good.

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You want to say good things about yourself.

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You want to put that in their mind that you are good, that you can do the job.

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But your claims have to have evidence.

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If they don't have evidence, don't say it.

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Don't say it because they might ask you a follow question like, well, you're the best manager in the world, really?

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Well, what's your evidence for that?

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How do you know that?

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Can you prove that?

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They're not going to let some claim like that just go.

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They're going to ask more questions or they're just going to think you're crazy.

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So it's fine to say, you know, I have five years of excellence as a manager at IBM.

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And if you've got the evidence, this is part two, sentence number two of the answer.

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For example, I was voted manager of the year in my region, the Southeast region of the United States.

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That includes six states.

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And I was given an award by IBM five years in a row for being the best manager in the region.

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See, that's evidence.

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That's evidence.

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Well, now you can say you're excellent because it's not just you just saying it.

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You have some evidence, some proof, right?

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Your employer, your APAST employer, someone you worked for before, gave you the award.

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Right?

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So you actually do have evidence to show.

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And then relevance.

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Relevance is the third part.

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What does that mean?

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It means you have relevance means connection or importance.

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Why is this important for the job you're interviewing for?

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This job you want?

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like if you're trying to be I don't know if you're applying to be a construction worker to build houses

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and you tell them tell them this they say tell me about yourself

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and you talk about what a great manager you are in the computer industry it's not really connected

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that might all be true

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but maybe they want to know well can you build things are you good at building stuff right is not relevant.

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Your ability to manage people in a software company is not useful to them for,

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you know, woodworking or building a home or something like that, right?

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Now, if you were applying for a management position at a construction company, maybe it would be relevant.

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But you need to say it.

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This is the key point.

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This is the third part of the formula.

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The third sentence of the answer is you say, and I think that would be helpful in this position,

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since I know you're looking for excellent managers in your software division.

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Something like that, right?

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It's just the point is you're just that third part of the formula, the third sentence, you're connecting it to the job you're trying to get.

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So they see the connection, even though, even if the connection seems obvious, you should say it in every answer, right?

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So you make a claim about yourself.

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I'm good at this.

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I can do this.

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I did this in the past.

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You give evidence, a story and, you know, awards, a project you worked on,

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some evidence, something real that you actually did that shows that your claim is true.

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And then finally, number three, relevance.

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You connect it to this job you're trying to get now.

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That's it.

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So, when we go to question number two, what is your greatest strength?

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Why does this make people super nervous?

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There's two reasons.

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Number one, for you, it might make you extra nervous

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because you might be trying to say how great things about yourself and how you're so great,

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but you're trying to do it in English and maybe you don't feel confident in English.

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So, you might feel kind of this extra anxiety.

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The other reason people feel nervous about this is they feel it might be a trap.

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And it might be.

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Right?

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Because they feel like, well, okay, I don't want to say too much about myself and look like I'm arrogant, right?

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You don't want to look like you're being,

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you're saying, I am the best and I'm so great and I'm wonderful and I'm awesome and everybody else stinks, right?

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So you want to have people socially in most cultures, you need to have some level of humility.

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And this depends on which country you live in.

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In some countries, you need to do that a lot, like say Japan.

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And in other countries, maybe like the United States, they do expect you to say good things about yourself.

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They expect you to sell yourself.

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So you can't be too humble because you're going to lose the job.

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You've got to sell yourself.

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but there's still a line.

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You can't go too much, right?

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So this can, this creates stress again.

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So once again, the key point of this is just having evidence, okay?

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You can say whatever strength you want is your greatest strength.

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It might be, it could be a specific job skill.

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You can say, I'm really great coding in the C computer language, C language.

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That'd be very, that's very specific.

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If you were trying to get a job coding in C, that would be an excellent answer for what is your greatest strength.

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It could be something more general.

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I'm just, you know, I'm very careful.

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Again, if we're talking about software, you know, software programmer, and I always debug everything.

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And my code, the programs I write are very clean and they don't have lots of problems afterwards, after they're done.

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It's a little more general.

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Or, you know, it could be, especially if you're young, you don't have a lot of job experience, you don't have a lot of technical skills, your greatest strength might be something more personal, right?

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I'm very persistent.

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I work really hard.

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The problem with these answers is, you know, everybody gives them.

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They're kind of meaningless.

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If you just say, oh, I'm a super hard worker and I never quit and I'm always working hard, hard, hard.

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Just saying that, and that's what a lot of people give that kind of answer.

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It means nothing.

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Anybody can say that.

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Anybody, and a lot of people do.

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So the person, the job interviewer, just got to imagine they're doing these interviews all day, maybe for like a week or two weeks,

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and they're just hearing that kind of answer again and again.

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I work so hard.

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Oh, I'm super organized.

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I'm so disciplined.

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And, you know, whatever it is, they've heard it probably hundreds of times.

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So just saying that, making your claim, if you only make the claim,

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if you don't have strong evidence or strong relevance, this is going to hurt you.

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You're just going to sound like everybody else.

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So what makes, how you give a great answer for this one is with your evidence.

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It's not about really what you say.

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You can say, oh, yeah, I'm super disciplined or I'm persistent and I'm a great problem solver.

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You know, some general thing like that.

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It's okay to say that, but then you've got to have a great story to show it.

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That's where you're going to beat everybody else.

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Everybody else is going to say something general.

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And at my last job, you know, I always worked hard and I never gave up.

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And if there was a problem, you know, I'd solved it.

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That's all general.

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There's nothing.

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Instead, you give a specific example.

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Okay.

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Example, evidence.

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The E, C-E-R, you can also say example.

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Example, evidence, either one of those.

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It's the same thing.

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So you give a specific.

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For example, I was given,

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at my last job, I was told to create an AI program to handle voice customer service. By telephone.

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and I really, to be honest, I didn't know anything about that and I told my boss, I'm not an expert in this, I don't know anything about it and he said, just figure it out

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and I worked for the next four months I worked 80 hours a week

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and I had stayed up and I was slamming down drinking Red Bulls

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and I would stay up all night till midnight I read 23 books about AI I read,

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I contacted other people who were experts in AI and especially, you know, voice chatting.

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And I was frustrated and I wrote my first program and it just broke.

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It wouldn't work at all.

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It was a disaster.

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And so I went back, more Red Bulls, more late nights, another week, boom, came back with a first prototype.

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It worked.

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It had some bugs, but it worked.

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My boss was extremely happy.

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And then I spent the next three weeks cleaning it up, perfecting it.

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And now it is the AI program they use for all their customer service calls.

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So obviously I'm just making this up.

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But what I'm trying to give you is, do you see how specific that is?

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And there's some emotion in it.

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You see emotion, the slamming the Red Bulls, for example.

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It's a great little detail.

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It gives, you're painting a picture in their mind.

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Now it's not just, yeah, I'm very disciplined and I never give up and I can solve problems.

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You know, they've heard all that.

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It doesn't mean anything.

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But now they're imagining you, you know, like in front of your computer, slugging down Red Bulls, you know,

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just super locked in and super focused and just, you know, working and working and not giving up

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and not giving up and you're painting like a movie in their mind of images and a story

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that shows how disciplined you are, how you never give up, how you teach yourself when you don't know things,

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how you solve problems when you need to, right?

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It's painting those pictures, creating those kind of stories.

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That's the evidence or examples you need to give these great interview questions.

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That's the difference.

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Most people give very general, weak, unemotional answers.

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A lot of people will just say, yeah, I'm really disciplined and I don't give up.

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And if I have a problem, you know, I keep working at it until it's solved.

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That's what I used to do when I was young.

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That would be an answer I'd give.

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No example at all.

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That's terrible.

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That's the worst.

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Some people, most other people, if they're a little better, like another, you know, this brings you up to like 99,

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98 percentile, there might be 10%, 20% who will give an example.

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For example, in my last job, they asked me to do a AI voice chat program and I wasn't very good at it.

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And so, you know, I just worked hard, worked hard.

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I didn't give up until, you know, I got it done and I got it done successfully.

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So that's a better answer, but it's still weak.

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There's no emotion.

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It's not specific.

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It's not showing the interviewer.

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They're not imagining you there doing anything, right?

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The top answer, the best answer, the strong answer is when you paint the picture, you tell a whole story.

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And you can do this quickly.

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It can be a micro story, a mini story.

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You don't have to spend 20 minutes telling the story.

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It can just be three minutes long.

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But it's those little details, slamming the red ball, staying up till midnight, specific numbers, like, you know, it took me four weeks,

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and I read 23 books, not 20, not 29, 23 books, right?

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It's all those little specific numbers, specific details, and it's the emotion of the energy, how you say it.

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It's not just what you say, it's how you say it.

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You say, yeah, you know, blah, blah, blah.

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This is the typical interviewer, interviewee, the person talking, the person answering.

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This is the energy they give.

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Yes, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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It's this kind of LinkedIn corporate boring level of energy that everybody does.

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I did it.

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I did it for years and years and years.

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and so I was the same as everybody else and so getting a job was hard and I failed a lot,

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a lot, a lot of job interviews to get one finally,

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you know when I stopped doing this when I started putting the emotion into it and giving details and,

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you know, trying to bring the interviewer like they're there in the moment with me my God, the job interviews went through the roof suddenly,

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you know, most interviews I was getting job offers or getting asked to come back for another interview.

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Makes a huge difference, but got to do it with every answer.

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Question number three, the next common question, your greatest weakness.

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Why is this one so tough?

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Why does it make you feel extra nervous?

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Well, obviously, there, this is a trap.

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This question's a trap, right?

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It's a big trap, and they can trap you in several ways with this.

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You've got to be so careful.

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This is probably the most dangerous question they ask.

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It's so dangerous because, you know, they're they're looking to get rid of you with this question.

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There's nothing you can say here that's going to make them hire you.

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But there's a lot you can say that will say no. They'll just say no, not you.

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Right.

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So they're asked.

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They asked this question because they have to get rid of people.

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They have to.

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Right.

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They've got 20 people applying and they got to get rid of 19.

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So this is, they're asking you to tell on yourself.

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So if you're too honest, you know, no job for you.

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If you say, oh yeah, you know, I'm just kind of lazy and I don't like getting up early in the morning.

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I'll tell you that.

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And so, you know, really, I never make it to a job by nine o'clock.

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You know, I'm always going to be late.

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That might be the truth.

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But if you say it, you're not going to get the job offer, right?

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So you probably should, you got to learn to be more punctual too

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but uh you know the point is you got to be

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really careful with this now see the other bad answer you can give though is something that's

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so fake this is what i used to do in fact

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i i look back i remember i just i cringe i

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kind of oh i'm embarrassed for myself for being given these terrible answers

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but i used you know you say something like uh well my greatest weakness is I'm just a workaholic.

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You know, I just, I'm just too dedicated.

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I just work too much.

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And sometimes I just don't know when to stop.

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Right?

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Some books and websites will actually encourage you to give this kind of answer.

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This is called a humble brag.

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In English, it's slang, humble brag.

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It means you're pretending to be humble.

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You're pretending to say a weakness, but actually it's a strength right you're actually trying to say

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how great you are right oh you know i'm a workaholic well

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and if they're trying to hire you of course they all want workaholics right

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so no no job is going to think that's bad so dangerous

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so how do you answer this without looking sounding like a

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kind of a humble brag idiot that's what i used to do um

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or without being too honest and they just say oh sorry i don't want you right

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so what you want to do is i think the best

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middle ground is you talk about something you're improving something you're working on now

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so it's not something you're terrible at

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but you're not good at it yet either you're in the middle

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and you're actively working on it

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so you might say let's say you were um i don't

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know let's say uh okay let's say you're applying for a

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management position you might say well you know um right now i'm working on improving

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my here's the thing you don't have to answer the question

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this is the politician thing you say right now i'm working

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on improving my presentation skills i'd say i'm you know i'm

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i've gotten i feel like my presentation skills have got where have been a little stale you know

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that they're okay but not exciting not great

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so I've stopped using PowerPoint I'm trying a completely different approach trying to inject more energy

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and more naturalness into my presentations and you know I've had a few presentations

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that that didn't go well in the beginning trying something new this always happens

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but I feel like I am improving

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and getting better something I'm going to keep working on until I can really level up my presentation skills quite a lot.

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Okay, so this is, again, what are we doing?

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You're giving, okay, maybe it's not exactly a weakness.

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This is where we're playing a little bit, right?

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You're not humble bragging, because that sounds stupid.

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But you're also not really saying something that's truly a terrible weakness, right?

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You're actually choosing something that is maybe just is so-so.

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It's okay.

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It's not terrible.

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It's not great.

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This is a politician trick.

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You're not really answering the question directly.

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They're used to it.

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Don't worry about it.

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Okay, everybody does this kind of thing.

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But this way, you can actually talk about something that maybe is not a super terrible weakness.

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It's a little small weakness, right?

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So you could say something if you could and you could try to be specific to give an example, right?

463

So you say, well, I feel like, you know, I recently in my job, I had to start making more presentations.

464

And I say my weakness was reading off of the slides.

465

So I, you know, really got in the habit of just putting a slide up

466

and then just reading the slide to the audience because, you know, that helped me feel less nervous.

467

And, you know, but I realize that's a weakness.

468

It's boring for the audience.

469

So now I'm working on talking directly.

470

You know, I've been working on eye contact, speaking to the audience directly.

471

I might put up a slide, but I don't read from it.

472

So I'm working really hard to connect with my audience and speak to them, not read to them.

473

Right?

474

So that's natural.

475

So that you're saying, okay, yeah, my presentation skills are not great now, but I'm working on it.

476

That's the key formula for this one.

477

Something that's not great, but you are working on it and you show some evidence.

478

Again, you show evidence that you're working on it.

479

You're specific.

480

Next question.

481

Why do you want to work here?

482

Money!

483

That's the real answer.

484

We all know.

485

But of course, we got to pretend it's this kind of nonsense.

486

We can't just pretend it's about money.

487

I get it.

488

I don't like, you know, you got to BS here a little bit.

489

Sorry.

490

Hopefully it's not just about money because, you know, for your happiness, you want to be interested.

491

You want to be in a good work environment.

492

So, well, money might be number one.

493

That's fine.

494

But don't say that.

495

It's etiquette.

496

You know, we're also supposed to pretend we're not working for, that money is not the most important thing, even though it is, or at least often is, a huge number one thing.

497

But talk something besides money.

498

So you need to do some research.

499

You could talk about the work environment.

500

You could talk about a challenge.

501

You could talk about the skills you might learn.

502

You could talk about opportunities for your career to grow at that company.

503

Well, I'd like to do this job, but I know that if I do well, your company has a lot of opportunities for me to move up if I need to.

504

So again, you want to make your claim.

505

Say the reason, opportunities, challenge, good work environment, whatever, good teamwork.

506

Then give an example or evidence, meaning just show that you researched it.

507

Say, for example, I saw on your website,

508

and then say that you have a lot of career growth opportunities.

509

Or I saw on another website that your company was rated very highly for being a positive work environment.

510

So give some evidence to show that you did a little research about their company.

511

Okay, and then you say, of course, relevant.

512

Why is that relevant?

513

Well, because so this is why I want to come and work for you.

514

And then finally, question number five, solve a problem.

515

This honestly, almost there are a lot of other questions have this as the main question.

516

And many times if you get asked a weird question, you can just sort of almost ignore it and just talk about a time when you solved a problem.

517

Just say that reminds me and then you'd start talking about a problem you solved

518

because you want to give these kind of answers as much as you can can.

519

Right?

520

So again, you're going to talk about, you can make a claim or talk about a situation.

521

But again, the main heart of this, even forget a formula, the main point is you're going to tell stories, examples, evidence, stories.

522

That's the heart of a great, great, great job interview answer.

523

Okay.

524

Yeah, you'll make your claims.

525

Yes, you connect it to the job you're trying to get, the relevance.

526

But the heart of it, the center of it, you can even reduce it down.

527

If three things is too much to remember, just remember examples, examples, examples,

528

or stories, stories, stories, and make your stories come alive.

529

You want them to be specific, very specific, a specific time you did something, a specific time you solved the problem,

530

how you solved it, you know, specific numbers if you have them, a specific time or time range,

531

and even talk about your feelings when you solved it.

532

It brings it more alive.

533

You can say, okay, yeah, I was a manager in my last job and I, for the first time, I had to fire somebody because they just,

534

they weren't performing and we gave them warning after warning and coaching.

535

We did everything possible, but they were causing our company to lose money.

536

They were just toxic, terrible for the team.

537

And I'd never fired anyone before.

538

and I realized to solve this problem I needed to fire them but I'll be honest I felt terrible

539

I felt nervous and I felt just kind of sad and even angry

540

at the person for making me do this because nobody wants to fire somebody

541

and then you talk about how you did it how did you solve the problem

542

but it's okay to share those emotions because you're human And they know that, right?

543

So you bring in some honest emotion to your stories about problem solving, how you felt before.

544

And then you could talk about how you felt at, during, you know.

545

So, you know, I practiced and I talked to my manager about how to fire this person.

546

And I watched videos.

547

I read books.

548

I actually would role play and pretend and do and practiced

549

and practiced about how to do it because I wanted to do it in a way that was respectful but honest.

550

And then what I did is I called them into my office and sat down, and I reviewed all the, you know, I let them know right away, I'm sorry, but we need to let you go.

551

And then I explained why and told them, you know, wish them luck in their next career and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right?

552

And then afterwards, I felt relief because I had practiced.

553

I didn't just go in and do it emotionally.

554

I stayed professional.

555

And I think it went as well as it could.

556

Right?

557

So that would be a good answer about solving a problem.

558

For example, the first time you had to fire someone as a manager.

559

Right?

560

But you see, you're bringing in very specific things.

561

And you're bringing in a little bit of emotion.

562

And you're taking them on a, it's like a little micro story, right?

563

A little story that has a little bit of drama in it.

564

A little bit of emotion.

565

Don't go too crazy with this, but this will make you stand out.

566

The interviewer is going to remember you because in all your answers, you're telling these stories and giving specific examples.

567

And you've got some human emotion in you.

568

Right?

569

You show some excitement.

570

You show some passion.

571

You show some, you know, even, you know, regret or sadness.

572

You're alive. And you're real.

573

and your answers are, not only are they good, but they're specific.

574

They have evidence.

575

Examples.

576

Right?

577

Man, you're going to stand out from other people.

578

You're going to look so good compared to most.

579

Okay, this is going to get you so many more job offers.

580

All right, now comment jobs below on YouTube or Instagram and I've got a guide 21 answers, 21 perfect answers to job interview questions.

581

I give you an exact formula for the 21 top questions in job interviews.

582

So these are five of them, but I've got a guide, and it gives you an exact formula for 21.

583

And also in that guide, probably more importantly, I tell you how to train for,

584

how to practice for the nervousness and how to train yourself to give and show that real humanity,

585

real emotion, positive emotion, enthusiasm, excitement, so that when you're in that job interview,

586

you're giving great answers and you're doing it in a way that is also great.

587

You've got great energy and you're saying great things.

588

And then you will be remembered.

589

In fact, probably what's going to happen is you get up, you walk out the door, the door closes, you're going out the door, going home, and the interviewer is just going to say yes,

590

and they're going to put your little resume in the yes pile.

591

Right?

592

They're going to say either, yes, we're going to hire this person, or yes, ask them back for another interview, but you're in the yes pile, not the no pile.

593

my final thought on this is or my final piece of advice so get my guide comment jobs below J-O-B-S

594

and I'll put a link down there where you can download

595

it I do have one last piece of advice though so get that guide

596

right out

597

and practice your answers to those 21 questions do all the

598

techniques in there to build up your your power your confidence your energy, get rid of all nervousness.

599

But then the final thing is, I would say, is practice a lot.

600

And what do I mean?

601

I mean, go to a lot of job interviews.

602

Do a lot of real job interviews, not just practice at home.

603

Yes, you will practice at home.

604

You can do it with a mirror.

605

You can do it with friends.

606

That's fine.

607

But I want you to actually do, there's no better practice than a real job interview.

608

So what does that mean?

609

Apply for tons and tons of jobs and apply for a lot of jobs you don't want.

610

Apply for a lot of jobs that you're probably too good for.

611

And I mean anything.

612

I mean even McDonald's.

613

Okay.

614

I don't care if you're an engineer.

615

Apply at your local McDonald's to be a manager.

616

Do you want the job?

617

Maybe you don't want the job.

618

It doesn't matter.

619

Just go get the practice of interviewing.

620

And it won't be a professional interview like it would be at an engineering company, but it still puts you in the situation of face-to-face with somebody who's going to be asking you questions.

621

So, I mean, even fast food, I'm not joking.

622

I used to do this.

623

I would go apply at fast food restaurants.

624

They would just take you to a table in the restaurant and they don't, they're not too tough with their interviews, right?

625

Because they just want to make sure you're going to show up and you're not weird or something,

626

but it's still a good way to get used to job interviews

627

and apply for other things and apply for stuff in your own industry, apply for jobs that are below you, jobs that are above you.

628

You just want to think of it as practice, practice, practice, practice.

629

It's like if you're a martial artist, you're a boxer, you just think of it like sparring.

630

It's just sparring, okay?

631

You're not trying to beat the other person.

632

You're not trying to win.

633

You might not even want the job.

634

It's just practice, okay?

635

Because when you start doing it again and again and again, it all starts to feel normal after a while because it's not normal, right?

636

It's a weird thing to do.

637

The whole job hunting process is weird for normal people.

638

And most people don't enjoy it.

639

And if you're young, you've never done it or you haven't done it much, that weirdness, the strangeness you're just not used to it it creates so much nervousness and stress

640

but if you just go out there and you just apply for anything you can find

641

and you just go to as many job interviews as you can

642

just interview

643

after a while after you do it 50 times guess what you start realizing they're all kind of similar

644

and it's not such a big deal anymore.

645

You just go and you sit in the waiting room for your turn and you're not nervous anymore because you're just like, oh, number 51, number 52, who cares?

646

And you go in and then you just do your little performance and then you leave.

647

And you're not stressed out at all and you become both energized

648

and relaxed at the same time because the stress is gone and you become much more natural and alive and real

649

and that's when you really start doing well in job interviews.

650

And one question people say, well, what if I don't want the job and they offer me a job?

651

Well, don't be rude about it.

652

Don't say, oh, actually, I don't want this job.

653

Don't do that because it makes you look terrible and they might tell other people.

654

You just say, yeah, okay, well, you know, I've interviewed at a few...

655

Just say, I have interviewed at several places or I have applied at several places,

656

So I just want to think about it.

657

I'll get back to you.

658

I'll let you know in three days, in one week, whatever.

659

And then later you just you call them or write them and just say, you know, I'm sorry, I've decided to do something else.

660

Thank you for your time.

661

So that's it.

662

Right.

663

Because they they all know everybody has to.

664

You're not just applying for just them.

665

Even if you apply fast food, you can just say, well, you know, I've applied for a few other jobs, too.

666

so I'll let you know in three days.

667

Something like that.

668

So interview and interviewing for jobs you don't want is the best practice because you don't feel stressed for those jobs.

669

If you really need a job and you really want it, you don't want that to be your first interview because you're going to be the most nervous, right?

670

The job you really, really want, your dream job, you want that to be your 50th, 5-0, your 50th interview.

671

You've already done 49 other interviews.

672

And then you go do your dream job interview, number 50.

673

Now you're so in practice.

674

You're so practiced.

675

You're so good.

676

You're so used to every question.

677

No nervousness at all.

678

You're going to be a star then.

679

All righty.

680

That is all. So again, comment below.

681

Jobs.

682

This is for YouTube and for Instagram.

683

Comment jobs and I'll put a link down there.

684

You can get that free guide, 21 perfect answers to job interview questions.

685

It's really going to help you with job interviews.

686

You're going to do great if you follow this.

687

It's work.

688

I'm not saying it's easy.

689

You do have to do all this.

690

You've got to write out and plan and use the formula for all the answers, for all the questions.

691

Then you got to practice them just so you remember them.

692

Then you got to follow my method of practicing in a way that's emotional and energetic.

693

Then you got to get out there and apply for tons of jobs and go to job interviews you don't even want.

694

But this is a life skill.

695

Once you do this one time in your life, maybe it takes you six months to do all this.

696

Once you do all this, you have that skill forever for the rest of your life, the rest of your career.

697

You will be great at job interviewing, job hunting.

698

right?

699

You're going to be great.

700

So then, anytime in the future you need to get another job, you need to look for a job, you need to interview for a job, eh, no big deal.

701

You're good at it.

702

Okay?

703

It's a skill that you'll keep your whole life, which is great.

704

Alrighty then.

705

Lots of love to you.

706

Mwah!

707

See you next time.

708

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Từ vựng và ghi chú luyện nói cho bài học này

Bài luyện nói trình độ B2 này dựa trên video “5 Interview Questions Decide Your Career”. Video này có 709 câu và 7657 từ để luyện shadowing. Phần lời nói dài 47:46. Người nói nói với tốc độ tự nhiên, khoảng 160 từ mỗi phút, gần với hội thoại hằng ngày. 89% số từ nằm trong 3.000 từ tiếng Anh thông dụng nhất, nên từ vựng dễ theo.

Từ vựng quan trọng trong video

15 từ khó nhất trong video, kèm phiên âm và nghĩa:

Từ	Phiên âm	Nghĩa
emotion danh từ	/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/	cảm xúc
humble tính từ	/ˈhʌmbəl/	khiêm tốn, khúm núm
rat danh từ	/ɹæt/	chuột
microwave danh từ	/ˈmaɪkɹoʊˌweɪv/	vi ba, vi sóng
foolish tính từ	/ˈfuː.lɪʃ/	dại dột
persistent tính từ	/pəˈsɪstənt/	kiên trì, dai dẳng
bore động từ	/boɹ/	khoan, đục
politician danh từ	/ˌpɑ.ləˈtɪʃ.ən/	chính khách, nhà chính trị
etiquette danh từ	/ˈɛt.ɪˌkɛt/	lễ nghi, nghi lễ
memorize động từ	/ˈmɛm.əˌɹaɪ̯z/	ghi nhớ, ghi chép
preposition danh từ	/ˌpɹɛpəˈzɪʃən/	giới từ
programmer danh từ	/ˈpɹoʊɡɹæmɚ/	lập trình viên
meaningless tính từ	/ˈmiː.nɪŋ.ləs/	vô nghĩa
respectful tính từ	/ɹɪˈspɛkt.fl̩/	lễ phép, kính cẩn
notebook danh từ	/ˈnoʊtˌbʊk/	tập, vở

Cụm động từ bạn sẽ nghe

Từ	Nghĩa
give up động từ	đầu hàng
get up động từ	dậy
go out động từ	ra, chết
write down động từ	viết ra, ghi xuống
go back động từ	trở lại
sit down động từ	ngồi xuống, ngồi

Những câu đáng luyện lại

Các câu ngắn, trọn ý trong video mà bạn có thể dùng lại khi giao tiếp hằng ngày:

What is your greatest strength?
What is your greatest weakness?
Why do you want to work here?
How do you know that?
Why is this important for the job you're interviewing for?

Ngữ pháp trong video

Những cấu trúc người nói dùng nhiều nhất, kèm đúng cụm từ trong video:

Cấu trúc	Trong video
“Used to” used to + động từ — thói quen hoặc tình trạng trong quá khứ nay không còn	used to do · used to it · used to every
Thì hiện tại hoàn thành have/has + quá khứ phân từ — việc đã xảy ra nhưng còn liên quan đến hiện tại	you've heard · they've heard · i've gotten
Câu bị động be + quá khứ phân từ — nhấn vào việc xảy ra, không phải người làm	will be asked · can be asked · be focused
Mệnh đề quan hệ who / which + mệnh đề — thêm thông tin về người hoặc vật	people who were · life, which is

Phát âm cần chú ý

Người nói dùng 321 dạng rút gọn, ví dụ you're, don't, I'm. Hãy nói theo dạng ngắn đúng như bạn nghe.

Âm “th”: breakthrough /ˈbɹeɪk.θɹuː/, enthusiasm /ɪnˈθuziæzəm/
Âm “sh” và “zh”: emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, foolish /ˈfuː.lɪʃ/, politician /ˌpɑ.ləˈtɪʃ.ən/, preposition /ˌpɹɛpəˈzɪʃən/, socially /ˈsoʊʃəli/
Từ dài — đặt trọng âm cho đúng: politician /ˌpɑ.ləˈtɪʃ.ən/, interviewee /ˌɪn.tɚ.vjuːˈiː/, preposition /ˌpɹɛpəˈzɪʃən/, humility /hjuːˈmɪlɪti/, energetic /ˌɛn.əɹˈdʒɛt.ɪk/

Những âm người Việt thường gặp khó:

Cụm phụ âm cuối — đọc đủ từng âm, đừng nuốt âm cuối: relevance /ˈɹɛl.ɪ.vən(t)s/, persistent /pəˈsɪstənt/, excitement /ɪkˈsaɪtmənt/, inject /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛkt/, arrogant /ˈæɹəɡənt/
Âm /tʃ/, /dʒ/ và /ʒ/ — tiếng Việt không có, đừng đọc thành “ch” hay “gi”: energize /ˈɛnəd͡ʒaɪz/, inject /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛkt/, punctual /ˈpʌŋkt͡ʃuəl/, energetic /ˌɛn.əɹˈdʒɛt.ɪk/, joking /ˈd͡ʒoʊkɪŋ/
Âm /æ/ — mở miệng rộng hơn âm “e”: brag /bɹæɡ/, slam /ˈslæm/, rat /ɹæt/, programmer /ˈpɹoʊɡɹæmɚ/, arrogant /ˈæɹəɡənt/

Cách luyện với video này

Nghe hết video một lần, chưa cần nói, và ghi lại những từ bạn chưa biết.
Bắt đầu ở tốc độ 0,75×, nói đuổi từng câu, rồi quay lại tốc độ bình thường khi đã quen.
Ghi âm giọng mình rồi so với bản gốc, chú ý các từ như emotion, humble, rat.

Phương Pháp Shadowing Là Gì?

Shadowing là kỹ thuật học ngôn ngữ có cơ sở khoa học, ban đầu được phát triển cho chương trình đào tạo phiên dịch viên chuyên nghiệp và được phổ biến rộng rãi bởi nhà đa ngôn ngữ học Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Nguyên lý cốt lõi đơn giản nhưng cực kỳ hiệu quả: bạn nghe tiếng Anh của người bản xứ và lặp lại to ngay lập tức — như một "cái bóng" (shadow) đuổi theo người nói với độ trễ chỉ 1–2 giây. Khác với luyện ngữ pháp hay học từ vựng bị động, Shadowing buộc não bộ và cơ miệng phải đồng thời xử lý và tái tạo ngôn ngữ thực tế. Các nghiên cứu khoa học xác nhận phương pháp này cải thiện đáng kể phát âm, ngữ điệu, nhịp điệu, nối âm, kỹ năng nghe và độ lưu loát khi nói — đặc biệt hiệu quả cho người luyện IELTS Speaking và muốn giao tiếp tiếng Anh tự nhiên như người bản ngữ.

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