Interviews are highly charged situations. Given this, it’s natural to feel nervous. Although effective interview skills are essential, a touch of nervousness is probably a good thing. It tells both you and your potential employer that you are interested enough in the job to step slightly outside your comfort zone in its pursuit.

However, nerves don’t have to be all-consuming. There are ways to manage interview nerves, the biggest one being to take the time to prepare thoroughly.
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Without proper interview skills training, plenty can go wrong in an interview. Often, when an interview does take a dive, it’s through our own poor management of the process.

Commonly what trips us up is a tendency to blunder in and try and take over the interview. There are many ways in which this can happen. continue