Ten tips to help you achieve your best interview status

Some interviewers are unable to withstand the psychological pressure caused by the upcoming interview due to insufficient psychological endurance, and fall into excessive anxiety. middle. If this happens, the interviewer will need to do some mental training. Excessive anxiety can be diagnosed from three aspects: adverse emotional reactions, such as nervousness and fear, upset, moodiness, listlessness, etc.; adverse physiological reactions, such as gastrointestinal discomfort, unexplained diarrhea, excessive sweating, frequent urination, headache, Insomnia, etc.; adverse intellectual reactions, such as memory loss, inability to concentrate, slow thinking, decreased learning efficiency, etc. If the above situation occurs, candidates can try the following methods to alleviate it:

1. Positive self-suggestion

Before the interview, the interviewer is used to describing some things about himself. These narratives are usually told to others, but they unintentionally imply themselves. The narratives of people with interview anxiety are often negative. They are used to telling others, "I may not be able to pass the interview," "I lack the ability to adapt, and I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to cope with the interview's adaptable questions," "My expression skills are not good enough," etc. These negative hints will destroy a good mood, distract attention, reduce the interviewer's self-confidence, and lead the interviewer into random thoughts, causing the interviewer to be unable to perform at his normal level during the interview. The result of the interview will be unfortunate for the interviewee. The negative implications are true. On the contrary, if you can give positive hints to yourself, the interviewer will be full of confidence, relaxed, focused, and quick-thinking, so that you can actively express yourself during the interview, and the interview results will often be predicted by your own positive hints. . Therefore, interviewers must be accustomed to giving more positive comments to themselves and must learn to actively self-suggest. Of course, positive self-suggestion does not mean being blindly optimistic, breaking away from reality, and replacing reality with fantasy and wonderful imagination, but looking at oneself objectively and rationally and having positive expectations for oneself.

2. Use the "systematic desensitization method" to eliminate excessive anxiety

The so-called "systemic desensitization method" gradually trains the individual's psychological balance ability through a series of steps. Enhance psychological adaptability, thereby eliminating sensitive reactions and maintaining a balanced state of mind and body.

Systematic desensitization of interview anxiety can be carried out as follows: The first step is to seriously reflect on your own situation and rank the situations that cause interview anxiety in order of severity. The second step is to use imagination to conduct "desensitization" training. Start by imagining the situation that causes you the least anxiety. Try to imagine the various scenarios, the interviewer's expression and your own inner experience as realistically as possible. Once there is a physical nervous reaction or inner anxiety, use words to imply "calm down", "calm down" and "stop being nervous". At the same time, take regular deep breaths and try to relax your muscles to reduce your own tension until you feel calm. Then imagine the second situation and train in sequence. Finally, you can imagine the most stressful interview situation with ease.

3. Full self-understanding and detailed understanding of the interview process

The interviewer can fully understand the requirements, question types, time, location, type, etc. of civil servant interviews. Be aware of the operation process; at the same time, you can correctly evaluate yourself, believe in your own abilities, and seek truth from facts. Don't be too ambitious or look down on yourself. In this way, the anxiety before the interview will naturally be reduced.

4. "Exposure shock method" to eliminate excessive anxiety

Go to more interviews, exercise more, and after several successes or "hitting the wall" several times, face the interview scene again , you will be much calmer.

5. Be fully prepared

It is expected that you may be very nervous on the spot. You should ask relevant colleagues or family members to act as interviewers in advance and conduct a mock interview to find out. Possible problems and shortcomings, and enhance your self-confidence to overcome tension.

You should repeatedly warn yourself not to take the gains and losses of an interview too seriously. You should understand that if you are nervous, your competitors will not be relaxed either, and they may make mistakes, or even be inferior to you. Under the same conditions, whoever overcomes nervousness, remains calm, and answers questions calmly will win.

6. Don’t rush to answer questions during the interview

After the examiner asks the question, the candidate can think about it for five to ten seconds before answering. When answering, be careful not to speak too fast. Too fast can easily lead to a disconnect between thinking and expression, and too fast can easily lead to unclear expression. Once you realize these situations, you will become more nervous, which will make it difficult for the interview to achieve the desired effect. So remember, from the beginning to the end of the interview, you should speak in an unhurried manner, with strict logic and clear organization.

7. Let your body relax

The mind and body are connected. When your body relaxes, your tension will be relieved.

(1) Take a walk to relieve worries. One study asked interviewers to walk with three different steps: a normal step; a swagger with arms swinging; and a slouching walk with the head down. It was found that the first two postures can make people feel happier. In this regard, psychologists analyzed that when swinging the arms, a mechanical movement can be produced to relax the shoulder, neck and back muscles that are tense due to anxiety.

(2) Laugh.

Laughing heartily can quickly relax your tense body. After laughing happily, because the muscles in your arms and feet are no longer tense, your blood pressure and heartbeat have eased, and you will feel as if a thousand pounds of burden has been lifted off your body. It will be quite easy.

(3) Take a bath to resolve worries. Experts point out that the ideal bath water temperature is 38 to 40 degrees Celsius, which is slightly higher than human body temperature. It can increase blood circulation and calm people down. It will relax your tense muscles and help you get a good night's sleep.

8. Take a deep breath

When we are unhappy, we often sigh. In fact, sighing is an unintentional deep breath, which inadvertently partially relieves anxiety and tension. Before the interview, you may wish to take the initiative to take deep breaths to relieve tension.

(1) First inhale, fill your lungs with air as much as possible, and keep your posture casual.

(2) Place your hands gently on the lower part of the ribs, slowly raise your head, and at the same time hint to yourself, "I am very relaxed."

(3) Inhale slowly and naturally, use the strength of your abdomen to inhale, and do not let your chest rise and fall violently.

(4) Hold your breath, relax your muscles, and then exhale the air evenly and gently. Many times, just one deep breath can calm someone down.

9. Get a good night’s sleep

Many people don’t sleep well before the interview. Of course, this is related to nervousness, but most of the time, it is because they attach too much importance to the meaning of sleep. They often like to reason: too nervous - can't sleep well - they will definitely not be in good spirits tomorrow and the interview will be bad, making themselves more and more nervous, so that they can only fall asleep when they are extremely sleepy. With a relaxed attitude towards the meaning of sleep, you can fall asleep naturally as usual. In addition, the following tips can help you fall asleep:

(1) Exercise appropriately. For people who work at their desks and sit still all day long, taking a walk or doing exercises before going to bed can help them get a good night's sleep.

(2) Try to relax as much as possible. Lie flat on the bed, take a deep breath, focus on a specific part first, such as your toes, and then start from that end and relax throughout your body.

(3)Drink a cup of hot milk. Some ingredients in milk powder may help you sleep.

(4) Meditate. Lying in bed and imagining something boring can help you fall asleep. In Britain, people often use the image of sheep jumping over fences one by one to hypnotize them.

10. Adjust your diet

German physiologist Volko. After long-term research, Professor Paton concluded that bananas and other fruits contain a substance that allows the brain to produce serum base, which has a soothing and pleasurable effect. Professor Patton further pointed out that one of the reasons why some people suffer from manic depression is the lack of serum base. Therefore, make sure to add some fruit to your meal before the interview. Diet experts also point out that in addition to the common high-protein foods such as meat, fish and eggs, adding a few slices of bread made of semolina, potatoes, rich vegetables and fruits to your menu will help your optimism. production and maintenance.

The above methods are universal. But maybe in your past experiences, you have unintentionally formed your own adjustment method, and that would be best. If you could sum up the normal psychological adjustment state before an interview in one sentence, it would be: relax, relax, relax again.

Of course, the most fundamental point, we believe, is that interviewers can face their normal anxieties with a normal mind and go to the interview calmly with normal anxieties - this is the best way to deal with anxiety. Effective method.