Are Your Job Hunting Frustrations Fuming?
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008You’ve been hunting for a job for three weeks now. You are still miserable over the loss of your old job. You never thought the company would fold. You were set for life. Although you have looked and looked, you simply cannot find a job that would even come close to what you had been making, and you don’t see many jobs out there which hold much interest to you. You’re feeling deflated and frustrated.
Does it show? Are you sitting in the interview chair projecting all of the above? Do you know? Are you aware of how and what you look like to the interviewer?
Sometimes we think we look and sound good, but we are so internalized, we don’t realize that we in fact look, sound, and emanate our frustrations, losses, and confusions over the whole thing.
Here are a few things you can do to help prevent that incorrect and all too deadly fuming frustration phenomena:
- Walk tall and stand straight – your walk and your stance have much to do with your attitude – make sure you are showing confidence and certainty just by this simple tip.
- Sit comfortably, but erect in the interview chair. Don’t look like a prom queen, or a chiropractors dream, just sit up and be alert and aware, while being comfortable.
- Make direct eye contact and comfortable hold it: Yes indeed – eye contact says certainty, confidence, and pride. It also says honesty and sincerity.
- Smile. Don’t over due on the smiles – it is not effusiveness and gushing that we want here. We want those easy smiles at the appropriate times by the confident person who has the world in the palm of their hand.
- Speak happily about your past employment experiences when appropriate to the interview questions. Show that you loved your position and that you were sorry to leave it, but do not mourn for it.
- Look to the future as you answer the interview questions. Where are you headed, where is the company headed? How can you help the company achieve its goals from the position they are offering you.
- Project and portray that you see this company as a whole new beginning for you and for them and that this is an exciting adventure. One you most certainly would like to embark upon.
Make each interview a thrilling adventure. Treat each one like a brand new activity, not one you keep doing over and over and over and over. Assess after each interview what you feel you did well, what you feel you could have done poorly. Practice in the mirror and in your home positive facial expressions and positive body language.
Mostly remember that there is great joy in creating anything. Each interview that you land is an opportunity to create a truly positive experience in your life and mold your future the way that you want!
Just remember that you do not want your frustrations to fume, but you do want your creativity and certainty to captivate and you will do very well.
