Are you looking for a new job? Are you wondering how you’re ever going to keep your cool during the interview when it feels like everything is riding on your performance? Fear not! Help is on the way! Here is Jacquelyn Smith’s article for Forbes: 14 Tips for Staying Calm During a Job Interview.
You’re in the hot seat. Your palms are sweaty; voice is shaky; face is flushed; and mouth is dry. Maybe you’re bouncing your knees and talking too fast. Perhaps your heart is racing or your stomach is turning.
You’re nervous.
Why does this happen to so many job candidates?
“When we perceive that we are in a high stakes situation, the brain doesn’t distinguish the high stakes of a job interview–where it would help to be calm, cool and collected–from the high stakes of being under threat from attack (say, from a tiger),” says Dr. Tamar Chansky, author of Freeing Yourself from Anxiety. “The body responds the same way–gearing up to run or fight for our lives. We experience a myriad of highly inconvenient and uncomfortable reactions which would make complete sense if there really were a tiger there.”
