You have secured an interview with a potential new family for a nanny role.
What should you expect?
Job interviews can be an excruciating, painful, stressful and awkward time, or it can be pleasant, educational, enlightening and successful experience.
Take a breath and be reassured that you have progressed to this stage.
You , perhaps with other candidates, have been chosen as a potential nanny for the family.
Now is your chance to shine and prove you are the right candidate for the position.
First impressions at the outset of the interview can make all the difference.
This is possibly the first time a prospective employer has seen you and you need to portray the right impression.
Interviews and securing a position has become very competitive and it is key that you represent yourself as best you can.
Interview questions have become complex and may seem to be tougher than ever before.
Try to avoid stumbling and stuttering your way through an answer and respond with a confident answer.
This can apply even for the toughest of questions such as when they ask about your weaknesses. This can be flipped into a positive. So for example you would start with the weakness but then turn it into a positive in the way that you have identified your weakness and now utilize it in a positive way.
Stay positive.
While you may have been for several interviews and still not secured a position it is important to remain positive. It is natural to start questioning yourself and wondering why and what you are doing wrong but to be honest it may actually be nothing. It is useful to analyse yourself and try to find ways to improve yourself but not to be too critical.
It may be a simple small thing such as you have identified you may have had poor body language which can send a negative message such as sloppiness and laziness. However, it may not have actually been anything you could have done differently.
Interviews are very competitive and while you weren’t successful in the interview it may be that another candidate had more experience, skill or qualifications and knowledge or was better suited than you rather than something you did or didn’t do.