CAREER TIPS
simple way to improve
your job interview
chances
Y
ou felt it tilt into dangerous territory when you got
her name wrong right at the start and now you've
spent an excruciating hour fumbling, mumbling
and completely failing to dredge up the most basic of
reasons why you'd be good at the job you're interviewing
for. You sit in a cold sweat, waiting for the nightmare to be
over so you can ceremoniously burn your CV, wondering
what happened. Where was that calm, composed you of
yesterday? The one in control and capable and ready to
achieve? Well, we can't help you with the interviews that
have already gone up in flames (sorry), but you should
be encouraged to know that results of a new study suggest there's a shortcut to the best version of yourself:
receiving compliments before an interview could actually make you perform better. The recently published
paper from Harvard
Business
School researchers described the
process as 'bestself
activation'
(that is, someone
prompts you to remember yourself
at your best) and
looked into how it
influences
emotions, physiology
and employment
relationships. The
research
says:
“We
developed
theory about how
best-self activation
can lead to both
immediate
and
long-term outcomes [...] In two lab experiments and a
field experiment in a global con