#388 Top Tips for Interviews

Squiggly Careers

AmazingIf

Careers, Management, Business

4.9 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Interviews open us up to new positions and projects but without practice, they can feel quite difficult to do. This week Helen and Sarah talk about their top tips for interviews to help you be at your best. They share practical ideas on how to prepare and show up with confidence in the conversation. More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers: 1.Sign up for PodMail, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career tools: https://bit.ly/sc-podmail 2.Sign up for our monthly Squiggly Career Calendar: https://bit.ly/squigglycalendar_signup 3. Read our books ‘The Squiggly Career’ and ‘You Coach You’: https://www.amazingif.com/books/ If you have any questions or feedback (which we love!) you can email us at helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Helen and I'm Sarah and this is the Squiggly Careers podcast, a weekly show where we talk about the ins, outs, ups and downs of work and give you some ideas for action, some tools to try out and a little bit of squiggly support along the way.
0:15.7	And this week we're talking about top tips for interviews.
0:19.6	And actually Helen and I are in the same room today.
0:21.6	And whenever we're sitting across me, I was feeling like I'm being interviewed for this podcast.
0:25.1	I feel like, equally. That's a different dynamic. I feel excited and you feel like intimidated.
0:30.1	Yeah, well, there you go. I'll tell you everything you need to know, doesn't it? And I know that
0:33.9	some of you will be listening because you've got an interview coming up. So we are going to do our best to really help you do well in that experience.
0:42.1	But some of you might be listening thinking, I haven't necessarily got an interview coming up.
0:46.1	Maybe you've just got an important conversation.
0:48.7	You can also interview now, I think, in Squiggly Careers for so many more different things.
0:53.4	So it might not always be a job role.
0:56.2	It could be a more informal conversation about being part of a network. It could be for a role as a
1:02.9	trustee or a non-exec. It might be that you're applying for a learning opportunity or sort of
1:09.5	pitching for something in your organisation. And I think a lot of the things that we're going to talk about today, opportunity or sort of pitching for something in your organisation.
1:12.0	And I think a lot of the things that we're going to talk about today, it's sort of that
1:15.2	high pressure conversation. I also think with interviews, one of the challenges is we don't
1:21.9	get that much practice. So it's not like we are having these conversations week and week out.
1:27.7	And so that's why they feel like such a high pressure moment that matter
1:30.7	because suddenly we're in this sort of slightly unusual, high stress, high adrenaline situation
1:37.1	where we're trying to be brilliant.
1:39.5	So we know that and we're going to try and make it a little bit easier for you.
1:43.7	And if you are a regular
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