If you’re preparing for an English interview online, then you’ve come to the right place.
Not only am I a qualified teacher with over 10 years’ experience, but I also specialise in guiding non-native speakers to join international companies. Let me help you to make the most of your existing speaking ability, increase your confidence and get your mindset ready for your upcoming English interview. Hopefully you still have some time to prepare, but I understand that interviews can come quickly.
Unless you are going for a job as a translator, speaking well is not the only important factor in impressing your interviewer and securing the job you want. Of course, you need to be qualified, but the if you have already been offered an interview, chances are you already fulfill the technical demands of the role. What remains to be seen is that you can express your suitability for the position, in English.
Again, assuming you meet the minimum requirements of qualifications, I would say that it is confidence. Real confidence that is, not the type of puffed-up bluster that’s implied in “fake it ‘til you make it” – that attitude may get you through a few doors in the first place but soon has you tripping on the doormat of “getting found out”. I’m talking about real confidence the type that comes from self-awareness of your strengths and weaknesses.
An open mind and a willingness to learn, to improve no matter how much success you have (or haven’t) had in your life so far. This is true for any prospective meeting, whether it’s an informal chat about your project in your native language, or an important English interview online.
The first thing you have to do is relax. You’re not going to impress anyone by getting uptight and forgetting all the things you want to say. One great way to do this is to remember that you are interviewing them too. That’s right, this is a two-way process. Adopting this mindset does two powerful things:
- Firstly, it can boost your confidence by putting you on the same level as the interviewer(s). You stop being a poor, unwanted candidate, begging for a job, and become someone with lots of value to offer (yourself) who wants to know more about the company with whom you are thinking of investing a lot of your precious time.
- Secondly, you come across as someone who is actively interested in this position within this specific company. If you ask plenty of pertinent questions it shows you have done your research and you can think critically about the role and how it fits into the bigger picture – qualities that will not go unnoticed by most employers.
This does not mean you can be disrespectful or arrogant. Manners maketh man, as they say, and they will make your chances of landing the role much better.
Another great tactic to employ is Start with WHY. If you’re familiar with the work of Simon Sinek, you’ll already know the difference this can make to leaders and organisations. You might not know that it can be applied to candidates who want to perform well in a job interview in English too . By aligning your own WHY, (purpose or raison d’être) with that of the company to which you are applying, you will connect with the interviewer on a subconscious level which is more powerful than any rational reason you could give them for choosing you.
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