The Winning Mindset for a Job Interview

Are you aware that you may have lost some job because of the mindset you met the interview panel with? Do you know that there is a winning mindset for responding to a job interview? What if I told you that by simply changing the way you think while responding to a job interview you can increase your chances of getting appointed amazingly? Just in case you are wondering about how possible this claims are, please read the following five (5) tips. The tips in this article have made it very difficult for me to lose a job interview.

Discard the “Job Seeker” Mindset

You need to move your thinking from that of “a job seeker” to “a service provider”. Next time you walk into an interview imagine that you are going to propose a service delivery. Do away with the beggar’s approach. Remember you are about to exchange your time, loyalty, and skills for the company’s money. Don’t seek for pity. Don’t beg for consideration. Don’t be so eager to please them; doing so will make you appear insecure and weak-willed. Tell the panel what you have in store for their organization. Let them know that you are offering a service-solution to them.

Be convinced of the value you are bringing in

Every company wants to employ people that will be assets. Make sure you understand what you are offering. You need to be convinced of how valuable your services are to them. Learn as much as you can about the position you are applying for and be ready to sell yourself for it.

Gain mastery of your communication

You goal here is to let your countenance reveal what you carry inside. If you do this right, all verbal and non-verbal communication that is beaming out of you will speak volume of your relevance to their organization. Avoid the temptation of talking in circles. You need to know what needs to be said; say it, and keep quiet! Never get hooked while talking. It is not about how much you have said but about how well your words have related to the gaps in their organization.

Pay some attention to the questions they didn’t ask

Answer the questions in the mind of the panellists. The mistake many people make is to research and focus on the questions they will be asked and on how best to answer. However, interviews are designed to harvest the content of your mind, character, and expertise. Some questions are not good enough to achieve those, so you need to know what they really want to hear and tell them exactly what they need to hear. Use every answer as an opportunity to tell them you know who they are looking for and that person is you.

Never, Never, Never lose your composure

It is an interview, not an interrogation! You are not a suspect. No matter how tricky a question seems, no matter how rude it was asked and no matter how scary the interviewer sounded, hold yourself together! Never let your voice quiver, your hands fidget, or your butt develop a mind of its own. Keep your face calm, your head up and your shoulder relaxed.

Go get that job!

THE MINDSET OF THE SELF-CONFIDENT (Part Two)

How to Build Self-Confidence

The first time I discussed this was in my 100 level in Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike in Abia State – my Alma mater. I was delivering a talk to 400 level students when their lecturer silently sneaked into the lecture room and decided to listen. I didn’t know when he came in but I noticed the class was a little more distracted; and some students were looking at me and giggling. I spoke on for another 10 minutes and with each minute, my presentation became more intriguing and before long the room was silent. I had everyone listening and I didn’t mind the number of eyes staring up at me.

When I eventually finished with what I used to call “Turbo Talks” then, I told them that I am able to stand before them to teach about building self-confidence because I had a particular awareness which most people desire but don’t have, I knew it was right to share my knowledge and I earnestly wanted them to live above the limitations of their self-esteems. The ovation that I received was marvelous  but what got me feeling fulfilled was what the lecturer said when he met at the exit. He asked me to wait a while that he would like to add something to what I was saying. He told his students that he was told I was a 100 level student of the institution. He noted that he heard a little of what I was saying and wished his students could put them to practice. That he was yet to see any student with the kind of confidence I just displayed teaching people that were way beyond me even as a fresher.

Over the years, I have written and spoken about what I discussed with those 400 level students and almost always, I receive calls from participants sharing their testimony about a sudden surge in their confidence. So I can assure you that, if you have a low self-esteem but truly desire to be bolder or more confident, and you do what I will be asking you to do here, you will experience a change in the way you evaluate yourself. You will discover you could do most of what you were shy of doing.

Now you may wonder why you actually need to build on your confidence. The truth is: you can hardly reach your dream without self-confidence. Before you can embark on any great venture, you have to believe in that venture, in your ability to pull it through and in God’s ability to create the opportunity for you to excel in it. Recently, I helped 4 families secure grants of between 7 million and 10 million Naira from the Nigerian government. We worked on their business plans together. My secret was simple. I communicated the confidence my clients had in their proposed businesses and their ability to execute those businesses and viola! today they are millionaires. My friend Ronald Nzimora (Nigeria’s finest Information Marketer does the same thing). His sales letters always assure buyers that he is confident the content or product he is selling will make them a better person.

Similarly, if you have read the biography of any great person you will discover that success in life has strong ties with self-confidence, self-awareness or what many describe as one’s belief in themselves. This is why you should take this article seriously. This is why you need to invest your time practicing what I will be sharing with you here. Just so you are forewarned. People have a way of ignoring what they are being taught free of charge. You probably stumbled upon this article and I can understand if you try to ignore it. You won’t find its content with a price tag attached anywhere online, you are advised to take it as one of those free gifts that can change your life for good. I want to remind you that the most valuable things in life are free including the grace of God, happiness, companionship, air, and love, etc.

You can develop a very sound self-confidence by adopting some attitudes and behaviours; but you will have to be consistent in it until you can act them out unconsciously. I will list the tips here and continue with more details soon.

• The influence of being honest, truthful, fair and upholding justice
• The willingness to share what you have with whoever needs it
• The power of knowing what you want
• The power of recognizing what you are good at and developing the skills to excel in it
• The confession or affirmation of who you can be
• The ability to understand your field and the players in it
• The wisdom to value human relationship
• The tenacity to venture through the road less traveled even when it seems risky

Do you want to know what those tips have to do with making you more self-confident? Hang on. We shall continue this later, so you use your time to do what you came online to do. In the meantime, share your expectations and thoughts in the comment section and I will reach you once I publish the full content.

I toast to a better YOU!

THE MINDSET OF THE SELF-CONFIDENT (Part One)

Have you ever wondered why some people are confident and their confidence is contagious? The secret of the self-confident is in the content or makeup of his or her mind. The difference between a confident person and a timid person is the quality, firmness and clarity of their minds. A confident person has a victor’s mind set while a timid person has a victim’s mind set. Now the question is what is a victor’s mind set?

A victor’s mind set is a set of beliefs, awareness or knowledge that convinces the person that he or she has what it takes to influence, to take charge and to win. It is a special kind of viewpoint that makes it very difficult for you to perceive failure or intimidation. It is different from courage. Courage is the action you take with this mind set even when faced with an impossible, obscured or dreaded situation.

For the self-confident, there is hardly a dead end; dead-ends happen when people lose faith in their ability to move further. You are self-confident when you believe strongly that what you have inside of you is influential enough to push you through the way that the Almighty has made for you. Self-confident people act, and not react. They influence and not respond. The conviction that victory awaits them in the future makes their actions today so contagious that you keep wondering where they get their energy from!

Self-confident people are also people of strong faith or hope. They walk into a room knowing they will leave behind a positive impression, pick up challenges knowing they will handle them, go after the person of their dream knowing it will always end well, serve and pray to their God knowing they will get answers etc.

The truth is; it is the lack of self-confidence that makes it difficult for many people to receive answers from God. Faith has a strong bearing on self-confidence. If you are not confident about your position in the Kingdom, you will be ignorant of what your inheritance is exactly. So how can you ask and receive what you don’t know exists? How can you ask for what you don’t know you deserve? How can you believe you deserve anything when you don’t recognise your worth? How can you be self-confident, without recognizing your worth?

To your success!

How Tonto Dikeh Drunkenly Embarrassed Herself In London

Drinking is fun, getting high can also be fun but when a traditional African super celeb loses it on stage before a London audience because she is tipsy, it stops being fun. It becomes a question of home training and how important good composure and behavior is to the celeb.

When I saw Tonto Dikeh falling and ranting on stage under the influence, I wished I could just walk into my laptop screen like  "Ghost Dad" did when he tried to scare off his daughter's chaser through phone and give her a whopping in the a**. But two things were wrong with my wish. Firstly, I was no Ghost and secondly, I am not Tonto's dad. I was also unhappy about the guy who brought her on stage knowing fully well she was out of her mind. Yes someone will say, "could anybody have been able to stop her? She had to earn!" But come on, you could just give her some sleeping drugs so she can wake up after the show.

I mean anything would have been better than letting that stubborn girl ruin the image of Nigeria female celebs which the likes of Omo Sexy and Genny are working tirelessly to protect from caricature.

Come to think of it; what is it with Tonto Dikeh and weird news? That pair seem to be nondetachable.

Watch the video: Tonto Dikeh is high!

Timaya's "Ekeloma Demba" Set to Take Out Kukere, Azonto et al

Guys, i don't usually do entertainment on my blog but wow, Timaya's new video definitely has some potentials i find hard to ignore.

His latest singles (which is still in making) sure has the potentials to take over the wave in the club.
I predict that "Ekeloma Demba" videos will take over the wave for a very long time and possibly shut out Kukere and Azonto. Nice beating: kukerable and azontish...but with some grand flavour..