Natalie FisherCEO, Natalie Fisher Coaching

4 Unexpected Ways To Prepare For An Interview Or Important Meeting - EPISODE #227

18 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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In this segment Natalie Fisher explains a counter‑intuitive strategy for easing interview anxiety: deliberately create additional professional and social engagements before the interview. She calls this a "blitz" – reaching out to former coworkers, former managers, friends, or setting up a gym meetup – to generate multiple "irons in the fire" that shift the brain’s focus away from the single interview. By having 2‑3 other meetings or activities already scheduled, candidates feel less pressure, gain momentum, and often perform better. Fisher cites numerous client experiences where having other interviews or meetings already booked led to interview success.

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easiest way to take the pressure off is by having other things happening. So you can create other things happening, other irons in the fire, other balls in the air, other people you're going to be talking to by simply reaching out to a bunch of people, right? You can do a blitz. You can say, hey, I'm going to reach out to my past coworker, I'm going to set up a meeting with my old manager, I'm going to set up, um, a meetup with 3 of my friends, I'm gonna set up a little thing at the gym or something. Like, you can set up things that are totally within your control to gather people in your life together. And that will just tell your brain immediately, I have other things going on, so everything is not riding on this one interview. Okay? And that itself will relieve the pressure. I can't tell you how many times I have clients who will, who will ace an interview because they have 2 or 3 other interviews already scheduled, right? So you can create that momentum for yourself by doing a blitz and starting to create that for yourself.