Coaching practices for How to Get Over Interview Anxiety

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• The hardest moments are the joins and the exits
• There’s a conversation coming up that I’m dreading, and I keep picturing it going fine and then getting blindsided in the moment by their pushback or my own panic
• I get through a hard thing and then just move on without ever clocking that I handled it, so it never seems to make the next one any easier
• There’s a big thing coming up
• It went fine, and now a voice says all that worry was a waste and I could ease off next time

Practices that may help

1. Build scripts for situation entry and transitions
   Prepare simple, natural openers and transitions so you’re not improvising from scratch under pressure.
   Overcoming Shyness: Philip Zimbardo’s Framework
2. Cope-ahead planning for high-stakes interactions
   Rehearse a difficult conversation in detail — mentally and verbally — before it happens.
   DBT Interpersonal Effectiveness: Getting What You Need Without Destroying the Relationship
3. Debrief after each stressful encounter
   Within 24 hours of a challenging event, review what you did, what worked, and what you will adjust.
   Stress Inoculation Training
4. Apply EFT to specific performance anxiety triggers
   EFT has the strongest self-guided evidence for test anxiety, public speaking, and sports performance stress.
   EFT Tapping: What It Is, How to Do It, and What the Evidence Shows
5. Debrief after performance without letting relief collapse the strategy
   After a successful performance, acknowledge the outcome honestly without abandoning the preparation habit that produced it.
   Defensive Pessimism, Made Practical
6. Write about your worries before a high-stakes performance
   Offload performance anxiety by writing it out in full immediately before the event.
   Choking Under Pressure, Made Practical
7. Behavioral experiments
   Test an anxious prediction in real life and compare what you feared with what happened.
   The Anxiety Toolkit, Made Practical
8. Set realistic expectations before each exposure
   Before you enter the situation, write down your feared prediction — then check it against reality afterward.
   The Fear Ladder: Graded Exposure Made Practical
9. Prepare questions you genuinely don’t know the answer to
   Ask about the unwritten realities of the role — the things no job posting reveals.
   Informational Interviews: Career Research That Builds Your Network
10. Engage with the present moment
    Once the edge comes off, redirect attention fully into an activity or your surroundings.
    The DARE Response to Anxiety, Made Practical

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