Monday Motivation: Ready for Your Next Job? Take This Easy Step Today!

Change your approach to interview preparation and set yourself up for success in the new year. This episode provides practical tips on reshaping your mindset, preparing key examples about yourself, and the significance of intentional preparation. 

• Shifting perspective from answering questions to telling your story 
• Importance of a proactive approach to interview prep 
• Creating an "Interview Examples" file for easy reference 
• Emphasizing self-awareness and strengths in interviews 
• Encouragement to start applying these insights immediately

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:14

Hey everyone and welcome to the Equipped Interview Podcast. With a combined 30 plus years of being interviewed and interviewing thousands of others, we're here to build your confidence, help you stand out and get your dream job. Your hosts are Joshua Tinkey and Linda Kamali. Let's get you equipped All right. Well, as a reminder, in these short Monday episodes we bring you some motivation to help you really push through that potentially stressful or even frustrating time of interview prep. For you, we share a quick hit, practical tips, reminders and steps you can take to get your week going. The goal is to keep it around five minutes and, nice and short, jumpstart your week. For today's topic, we're going to give you an important step you can take today to start your new year right and get one step closer to getting that job offer. I know it's been a little bit since we've put out episodes, so for those of you who have been asking, I'm excited to share that. We have a ton of stuff coming in 2025. So stay tuned for that and, most importantly, thank you for continuing to listen and share your feedback. It's awesome to see it. Love it For everyone else.

Speaker 1: 1:11

If you've just stumbled onto the Equipped Interview podcast, I suggest listening to this today, but then going back and listening to some of the most popular and helpful episodes that we hear helped others. I'd recommend episodes four, which is all about answering tell me about yourself common question, and episode 15, which gives the top 15 common interview questions that you should prep for. Also, if, after today's episode, you want to cut out the sometimes it feels endless time searching online for the best ways to prep for an interview, I can absolutely help you there. I spent years doing that stuff and interviewing others along the way, of course, and boiled it all down to the most important steps that you can take. So you can check out the digital book that we have on the website. That includes frameworks, checklists and almost like fill in the blank type stuff for you to just apply your situation to the content on there. So that's at equippedinterviewcom forward slash books. If you want to check that out or if you want to get one-on-one coaching, that's always available Check out the work with me section on equippedinterviewcom.

Speaker 1: 2:13

All right, now let's dive into what we said we talk about today. What is the one step you can take today to start your year right and get you closer to that job offer? All right, the answer is turn your interview prep upside down. Here's what I mean by that. Change your approach and start today. So change your approach and start today.

Speaker 1: 2:32

Sometimes, approach, sometimes I use the word mindset, but here's what I mean by that. Oftentimes I'll hear people like I, coach, or just anyone. I talk to their questions in their head. Right, they're thinking well, I'm not sure where to start. Or maybe you're worried that you're not sure what questions the interviewer is going to ask you. Maybe you're stressed that you're not confident enough or you're not going to stand out against others. I mean, hey, most people are, most people are thinking that, but if you change your approach, it alleviates a lot of that, a lot of that stress and frustration. I talk about this all the time.

Speaker 1: 3:02

Changing your approach and really your mindset is the first and most important step that you can take, because everything else follows Meaning. You need to recognize that an interview is not about answering whatever questions they ask. It is about telling the interviewer what you need to tell them, going in with an intentional plan to share the most important things about you. So, practically speaking, what's that look like to share the most important things about you? So, practically speaking, what's that look like. During your prep, you need to identify all the important examples, stories, qualities about yourself, why you want the job, your experience, your excitement. Know yourself, in other words, and study that like crazy. Know yourself and everything about you that you want to share. That's what's most important, not worrying about what they're going to ask you, because then, no matter what questions you get, you just fit that into what you need to fit that into the question that they ask. It doesn't really matter what question they ask. Sure, you have to, you have to make it make sense, but I teach you how to do that in these episodes, in the free resources on the website or if you sign up for coaching with me.

Speaker 1: 4:02

We talk a lot about how to do this really well, change your approach or mindset and then just start today. So here's another, even really even more practical thing you can do right now Grab your phone, a notebook, whatever make a file titled interview examples and then just keep a close by and that's it. And then anytime this week, next week, a month from now, anytime you have a thought or some great feedback from your boss, maybe your project goes south and you have a negative example, whatever pull out your phone or notebook and add a few quick notes that'll help you remember the situation later, even months later, right when you're doing your formal interview prep, whenever that time might come. Help future you by starting with that simple step today. Grab your phone notebook, make a file titled interview examples and keep it close by and be ready. So, to sum it all up, get your new year off to a great start with those two simple steps. Change your approach and how you think about interviews and start today.

Speaker 1: 4:57

Well, I hope you enjoyed this quick hit Monday motivation episode. Stay tuned for our regular episodes on Wednesday and another Monday Motivation episode next week. That's all for today, but let's keep the conversation going. Check out equippedinterviewcom, be intentional, do the work and build your confidence to stand out in your next job interview. Thank you.