Want to be hired? Here's a tip for you !

We really do look forward to be hired when attend an interview. We also end up reading about the organization, people the vacancies and try to analyze a lot of things generally before we go for an interview because we know we are expected to be prepared and most of the time we realize that the first question the interviewer asks is to tell them about our self and here goes our customized express view starting with our name, the place we were born what our parents or siblings do, where we studied and so on. These are infact the standard answers we get when we interview candidates.  

There is one thing that we really need to understand – the interviewer has our resume already and this question is more to gauge how confident and engaging the candidate is. 

Your backstory, arguably the easiest piece of this puzzle. You can talk about yourself, right? You know what you've done, you know where you've gone to school, it's really easy to talk about your resume. Although, they don't care about your resume and they don't wanna hear your resume in reverse chronological order. So here's what you do instead. When you're talking about your background, you're gonna create a backstory. 

The difference between a backstory and a background is that here in this story you're the author. You get to pick and choose what you wanna tell them.  You get to pick and choose what to include. So what should you include? You've two things to choose from. You can either talk about relevant experience, or you can talk about transferrable skills. If you have relevant experience, then bring it to the table, best case scenario.  If you don't have relevant experience, there's another thing you can sell yourself on, and that's transferrable skills. Are you a big picture thinker? Are you great in the weeds? Are you really calm, cool, and collected under pressure? Are you great at juggling multiple ball in the air? Are you really agile? Are you a quick learner? What is it that you bring to the table? You can always, and frankly should, talk about your transferable skills. 

As what they expect is something interesting about you and the best way for that is tell them your back story that you feel has helped you to land where ever you are today because backstory’s matter as your interview result would be based on how much you were successful in selling your story- but trust me guys just the truth with passion can actually work out damn well, so now it’s your time to figure out your backstory along with your clear destination i.e. where you are heading towards in your career. . It's not what's recent that matters, it's what relevant.

Here are some quick tips that I felt might be useful. First is you need to understand that they are judging you and its very important for you to make a powerful impact with your first impression as that matters a lot. Infact your confidence is judged based on the amount of space you take up & how you carry yourself.

There is a study that says even if a video clip of your first 20 seconds of interview is rated by a non-interview panel member, the rating given by the members watching the video would be the same as the rating given by the interview panel- so impressions do matter a lot!Here are some Do’s and don’ts that might help you.

Do’s – Fronting ; Pride Pose ; Take up Space ; hold your head high ; roll your shoulders back; have an open torso ; Lift your chest

Don’ts – Defeat pose ; self touching ; blocking; straightening your clothes or jewels ; crossing your arms & cracking your knuckles.

So for a great first impression Angle your body , maintain eye contact and sustain fronting. By fronting I mean when you angle your toes, torso, & top towards the person you want to engage and I would say that these are the first impression formulas because even your non verbal cues can send in lot of messages.

So all you need to do is be ready and get set for creating a great first impression- All the best!