Interviews

There's a situation now where those who want a job are getting interviews. And if you are not, something is drastically wrong in your approach. Because today, virtually everyone who actually makes an application with effort, is getting some interviews. Interviews, today, are NOT hard to come by. If they are, for you, before you invest even more time in more applications, seek help. There's likely something you are just not missing on how to get an interview, and once discovered, and altered, you will start to see interviews.

The challenge for most professionals today is making it to the next rounds and to the offer. Most, if not all, advice on interviewing comes from Google. It's like we have a big match tomorrow, and what we're going to do to win it is Google some stuff and read it.

I'm absolutely sure that's how Serena did it.

Never once.

No coach has ever suggested to anyone facing a tough competitive event, "Google it."

It's just absurd to even say that.

You can't get better at something by watching others do it. Or reading about it. Or getting 7 tips (5 of which you already knew).

But time and time again, facing an opportunity for 5 figure, 6 figure, and even 7 figure salaries, the candidate is turning almost exclusively to Google for the win.

To improve at interviewing requires 1:1 coaching, some group coaching, practice, and preparation. And that leads to 80% advancement to the next round.

Bit of work. Huge impact.

The 1:1 coaching is key because often we're often very bad judges of our own performance. Our brains just weren't created to be in the moment performing under huge amounts of pressure and be an unbiased observer. Professionals are often not critical enough, or way too critical of their interviewing skills. I know. I've helped over 42k people prepare for interviews and I can tell you these extremes are common to 99.9% of professionals. They go way too easy on themselves. Or way too hard on themselves. And spend very little time identifying specific opportunities for improvement because most energy goes to patting themselves on the back or self-flagellation.

Group coaching is critical because we can improve dramatically in very small groups with opportunities to ask questions of the leader and our peers. That's why virtually every team has practice events for the team members. And for solo-sports there's often group practice drills. And, if you think about, virtually everything we've learned, we learned that way. We didn't read a book, a blog, or watch a video. We sat in a room with peers with an instructor. And that's how we learned practically everything. There's something that happens to us when we see that others are listening, writing notes, engaged in what the coach is delivered: we listen harder, we take notes, and we apply what we've heard. And the result is great comprehension of the material.

Practice is fundamental to your success. Said every coach, ever. And he/she/they doesn't mean cramming a few days before watching videos on YouTube, reading blogs, or going to webinars. That's not how you win. You win by practicing every week. That's the only way to achieve improvements. And it's the only way to keep your skills. The same is true for interviewing. You can't cram. You have to practice every week. That's how you keep your skills and improve.

Look, nothing about real life is like an interview. We don't (I hope) sit down to lunch with colleagues and start sharing our accomplishments. We don't do this with friends, family, our bosses, or even our nemesis. It's weird. It's rude. It's bizarre. But that's exactly what we must do to achieve the next round in an interview. And to get the offer. This is why practice is so incredibly important because the skill set is completely untapped in our regular, day-to-day lives.

The final element that leads to winning in a highly competitive event is preparation. This is very different than practice. This is what we do as soon as we know who are our competitor is, where the match will be, what day it will be. We'd study them. We'd research what we could about them. We'd prepare for the environment we'll be in. And preparation is absolutely a must for an interview.

To improve at interviewing requires 1:1 coaching, some group coaching, practice, and preparation. Just like sports.

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