More Than English Ep 9: One Powerful Trick to Increase CONFIDENCE for a Job Interview

Use this ONE TRICK to be more confident when you go into your next job interview. I've done this for my past three jobs and I KILLED the interview. (It was very successful.) With this trick, you will have more confidence and be able to share your ideas easier, even in a high-pressure situation.

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VOCABULARY and EXPRESSIONS
​(The words and terms are in order of when you will hear them)

Learning curve – The time it takes you to learn something. You can have a big or small learning curve. “Please let me know because this is a big learning curve.”
5 blocks BY 5 blocks – 1) BLOCK – the area or distance in a city between streets. 2) BY – when you talk about the dimensions of a square or rectangle.
It’s just… – (Fluency Builder) “It’s just a big party.” You can’t beat that – We say this when something is very good for us. Crippling (adj) – Something that causes you to not move or think well -
to cripple (v)/ a cripple (n)- “Nerves can be a crippling thing.”
To give/make a great impression – (Collocation) to present yourself well to somebody “You want to give/make a great first impression.”
Let me go back (Story-telling Expression) – When you want to talk about something that happened before a certain point in your story. “Let me go back and let you know that I have 12 years experience at this point.”
Let me give you an example – We say “Let me…” often to sound more friendly
Era –A time period labeled by a certain characteristic or trend “Think back at the Mike Tyson era.”
A lamb going into the slaughter – (Expression) When you feel very afraid about something you’re about to do. “Sometimes we feel like a lamb going to the slaughter going into an interview.”
In my mind… – The way you think about something “In my mind, I had already worked there.”
To beat (out) – To win against an opponent. -beat one opponent; beat out a group- “I think I beat out 24 candidates.”
From the heart – To do something genuinely.
Mindset/ Mentality/ State of mind

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