Coaching practices for What to Prepare for a Job Interview That I'm Going Conduct
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- I’ve got the conversation booked but I’m staring at a blank page of questions, worried I’ll waste their time asking things I could’ve Googled
- This one really matters and I know that the second they push back I’ll get flustered and lose my thread
- 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
- Right before I walk into the presentation I’m jittery and small, and I want a quiet minute on my own to physically settle into feeling steady and grounded, so all the prep I did actually shows up instead of getting swallowed by nerves.
- The conversation goes great and then it just...
Practices that may help
- 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 - Rehearse the full Ackerman sequence before high-stakes negotiations
Walk through every bid and response scenario in advance so you execute under pressure with prepared clarity.
The Ackerman Method, Made Practical - 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 - Set your posture before high-stakes moments
Take a private moment to settle into a confident posture before a presentation or hard talk.
Posture and Confidence, Honestly Explained - Close every informational interview with one forward step
End by asking: "Is there someone else you think I should talk to?"
Informational Interviews: Career Research That Builds Your Network - Build and work a target list of roles and organisations
Replace passive job board browsing with active research into specific organisations you want to understand.
Informational Interviews: Career Research That Builds Your Network - Use the anticipation of interaction to create liking before meeting
Knowing you will interact with someone in the future makes you evaluate them more positively before it happens.
The Propinquity Effect (Leon Festinger) - Mental rehearsal of outcomes
Vividly rehearse the result and the process, with emotion, before you act.
Tony Robbins’ Core Practices - Practise your story before you need it
Have a clear, genuine two-minute narrative about who you are and where you’re headed.
Informational Interviews: Career Research That Builds Your Network - Request the conversation the right way
A short, specific, no-pressure request gets far more responses than a vague networking ask.
Informational Interviews: Career Research That Builds Your Network
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Ask about the unwritten realities of the role — the things no job posting reveals.
Prepare questions you genuinely don’t know the answer to
- Signs You Will Get The Job After Interview
End by asking: "Is there someone else you think I should talk to?"
Close every informational interview with one forward step
- Applying To Job Postings That Ask For Personal Information Like Address Upfront
Replace passive job board browsing with active research into specific organisations you want to understand.
Build and work a target list of roles and organisations
- How To Handle Multiple Job Interviews
Replace passive job board browsing with active research into specific organisations you want to understand.
- Informational Interviews Career Research That Builds Your Network Under Stress
An informational interview is a low-stakes conversation with someone in a role or field you’re curious about — you ask questions, they share experience, and no job is on the table. Richard Bolles’s What Color Is Your Parachute? popularised this as a career research tool; the evidence is largely observational and practitioner, but it consistently shows that direct conversation with insiders produces better career decisions and unexpected referrals.
- Interviewing While Starting New Job
Ask about the unwritten realities of the role — the things no job posting reveals.
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