Welcome. My name is Divine. This is episode 624 of the Divine Intervention Podcasts. Into this podcast,

we're going to be addressing a topic that I'd like to title, common interview errors.

Common interview errors. If you avoid these mistakes, it will really help you with your interviews.

You know, I know ERAs went out last month, and I know some people are beginning to get interviews.

At least some people have worked with have certainly studied getting interviews, right?

So just being in a situation where you avoid these mistakes, I think, is something you want to keep in mind so that you can have a great interview season.

Because again, I have seen people that I've had again I've been on on admissions committee before I've seen

people that I've had the best scores like if you read their application you're like I want this

person in my program but then you meet them in person and you're like I definitely do not

want this person in my program so how do you prevent yourself from being and you're like, I definitely do not want this person

in my program. So how do you prevent yourself from being in that situation? All right. So let's go

over a few principles. So principle number one is to stop and think. It's the stop and think

principle. So what's the mistake here? The mistake here is that people are too jumpy. People

have this anxiety mindset with interviews, right?

They're very jumping with interviews. The moment the question is leaving the interviewer's mouth.

They're jumping right into answering the question. It should not be so. It literally should not be so.

Right. You need to learn to stop and think, right? Don't just jump in real

quick like that. That's not a smart way to answer interview questions, right? Especially when

you're answering difficult questions, you want to be a person that stops and thinks, right? You may think

that, and you can just tell the interviewer, can you just give me a few moments stops and thinks right you may think that um you can you can just tell the

interviewer can you just give me a few moments let me think about this question there's nothing wrong

with that don't think that people think you're poor terrible because you're taking a few moments

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