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Omg I have this same problem I literally walked away from two interviews this last week because I was scared I wouldn't know what to say. I try to go over the questions before my interview as well. One thing that's helped me is I tell myself that if it's meant for me to get the job then I'll get it. Put your faith and trust into some sort of higher power and let go of the control. I believe we need to have faith in something or someone other then ourselves or a lot of us will fail and be scared to try again. Good luck I'll be praying for you.
What type of job interviews are you involved in?
I hope you know that getting to the interview phase means they like you on paper. They just want to see how you would fit on their team and with particular scenarios they already know you would encounter. Take a calming breath and give yourself time to collect yourself before responding. I get nervous too, so I try to slow things down in my head and really connect to what they are asking. I also used AI to give me questions based on the job description, then gave my answers via voice to text. That helped me improve a lot. Perhaps that might work for you.
the best thing to do is practice with a friend the night before. take it seriously do a full mock interview. saying the information out loud helps more than you think. tell them why you're the best fit for the position vs stories. you're literally laying out your experience to them and why you fit the position, you know this stuff very well. Just remind yourself its not that deep, they wanna see how you interact and handle yourself under pressure. practice out loud by urself if u cant find anyone to help. you can do this.
Totally. I think a lot of adhd and AUDHD spectrum folks have that. Including me! You have to prep as many stories as you can. And practice telling those stories. I just had a series of interviews and had all but one story ready to go. And I failed on that unprepped story. So I’ll add it to the stack. Frustrating. The interview process is a ridiculous and ineffective process but it’s a social norm so I just prep as best I can.
I hate broad questions in an interview. I like specific question.
The interviewer is not interested where you were born, your favorite color or what your hobbies are. They want to know if you can do the job. So tell them about you in terms of how you meet the essential requirements on the job description.
I have a variation of this problem. In programming, there is rarely 'wiggle room'; either you know the answers or you don't. If someone opens the interview with a really hard question i don't know, it causes me to panic. The adrenaline will cloud my mind and then I'll start giving the wrong answers to questions I know as doubt and second-guessing go to maximum. Mental pandemonium sets in. If we ramp upward to hard questions its a diff story- I've already proven I know the basics and think "ok, maybe I dont recall that one, but hopefully the next will be better." With programming manuals that go on for 1000's of pages for a single language and you are expected to know like 5, interviews often feel like luck- hopefully they ask something you've done. PS: All this for a job that often pays less than someone makes driving cars off a freighter at the docks. As my bro said "All I need to know is how to drive a stick-shift" :/
This is more common than people admit and the advice to "just be yourself" is useless when your treating the interview like a threat.
Instead of memorizing "in 2019 I led a team of five people through a restructure" you anchor to the actual memory of that moment. It's more natural when pulling from experience instead of reciting text.
The other thing that helps is repetition under realistic conditions. not reading your answers quietly at your desk but actually saying them out loud to a camera or a recording app until the story is in your body not just your head. The fight or flight response shrinks every time you've already done the thing before.
Four interviews is not failure it's data.
During an interview, someone asked me what my weaknesses were. I panicked and said "Cheese."
Hello,
I understand you are apprehension and almost paralysis at times. You’re not the only one that feels this tremendous amount of anxiety can take over everything. The only thing that I have found that I do to help myself, I often think to myself a lot of these interviews lend themselves to more psychological issues then particularly what the job is you’re going for like what is how would you describe yourself? How would you change yourself? It seems like that that has helped me with that one because I know who I am. I’m sure you do too. Lot of them are ridiculous questions I think. I see what could be helpful issue apply for a position and you get an interview which you’re lucky be confident in who you are breathe deep and go in you know who you are you know what you want you know how to fix a problem you know if it doesn’t exactly apply to the job you’re interviewing for things do crossover you know whether your printer and you make like phone cards for Capital One or whether you are going to make the green boards and to deal with the shipping and all of that stuff, it’s the same thing just a different product or it’s crazy to me. I’m sorry I hope that this helped you. I think this job market is something I just don’t understand.
I can’t even get an interview! My credentials and psychologist my credentials meet everything I’ve practiced for a long time. One company even said even though my résumé was quite impressive. They’re going to go with other candidates. What the heck does that mean? I don’t know it’s a whole different ball game than it used to be and I wish you the best. Just know they are so silly questions you can think through that before the interview, they usually ask the same stuff really that’s been my experience so I wish you very well, sir and I hope things work out for you and remember you’re not alone.
There is a simple way to answer the “dreaded” tell me about yourself question. It’s 3 parts: past present, future. 2 sentences each. I was working for … now I’m … but what I’m really interested in or what I want to pivot to is… and then paraphrase what that job is all about.
As for why you want to work there.. if you can’t answer that question with some excitement, don’t apply. Money is not the answer.