How To Ace Your Job Interview Over Zoom | Forbes

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Resumo

TLDRThe video provides ten tips to excel in video interviews, especially as remote interviews become more common. These tips include: choosing an authentic but distraction-free background, avoiding virtual backgrounds, wearing professional attire, ensuring your video and audio equipment is ready well in advance, using positive body language, engaging the interviewer with energy and eye contact, thoroughly preparing through company research, articulating your accomplishments effectively, practicing responses with a friend on video, and understanding your value and career goals during the interview. Emphasizing the importance of being yourself while bringing your best self forward is crucial for making a great impression.

Conclusões

  • 🎥 Ensure your background is clean and distraction-free.
  • 🔊 Check and prepare your audio and video equipment in advance.
  • 👔 Dress professionally, even if it's a remote interview.
  • 😊 Use positive body language to engage the interviewer.
  • 📚 Prepare thoroughly about the company and role.
  • 👀 Maintain eye contact and appear interested.
  • 🗣️ Articulate your key accomplishments smoothly.
  • 🤝 Practice your interview with a friend or coach.
  • 💡 Understand your value and assess the job fit.
  • 🙋‍♂️ Be confident and bring your best self to the interview.

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    To enhance interview performance, practicing with a friend on video is recommended to simulate the setting and gain feedback, focusing on refining responses and ensuring fluency. The advice is to keep iterating until one is comfortable and fluid in their answers. Finally, the speaker reminds viewers of their value and worth, emphasizing the mutual nature of the interview process and the importance of assessing whether the job aligns with one's values and career goals. It's crucial to ask insightful questions to determine if the position is a suitable fit. Overall, being authentic, bringing one's best self, and clearly communicating one’s talents and value to the prospective employer are key takeaways.

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Perguntas frequentes

  • What should my video interview background be like?

    Keep the background authentic, clean, neutral, and professional with minimal distractions.

  • Should I use a virtual background for a video interview?

    It's best to avoid virtual backgrounds as they can be distracting; use your real background if suitable.

  • What kind of attire is appropriate for a video interview?

    Dress professionally, similar to how you would for an in-person interview, avoiding anything too distracting.

  • How early should I prepare my audio and video equipment before the interview?

    Ensure your equipment is ready at least 30 minutes to an hour before the interview.

  • Why is positive body language important in a video interview?

    Positive body language shows engagement and interest, making a positive impression on the interviewer.

  • How can I engage the interviewer during a video interview?

    Use eye contact, smiles, and energetic, interested gestures and voice to show your interest.

  • Why is preparation important for a video interview?

    Researching the company and role beforehand helps demonstrate your fit and interest in the position.

  • How can I present my achievements during a video interview?

    List your 20 top accomplishments and practice discussing them to reflect on your value and skills.

  • Should I practice for my video interview?

    Yes, practice with a friend over video to ensure comfortable and fluent responses.

  • What's the final key point in a video interview?

    Remember your value and assess if the job fits your career goals; it's a two-way evaluation.

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    today as we all know our interviews are
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    happening from our homes or from some
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    remote place we're not going to work
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    right we're not going to the office
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    for many people that's easier because
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    they're right in there at the comfort of
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    their own home for many people it's not
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    easy they're not comfortable
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    online they're not comfortable with the
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    technology
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    and it makes interviewing even a little
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    more stressful than it already was
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    so what i'd love to do here is give 10
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    tips
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    so that you can rock your video
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    interview you can feel comfortable you
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    authentic and be the real you but also
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    first tip is be
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    conscious of what's in the view so what
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    you
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    want is a background that i feel
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    the best is that it's authentic it's who
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    you really are
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    but it has the least amount of
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    uh distractions you can find a corner
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    that's
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    that's white you can find the lighting
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    has to be decent so you're not being
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    blinded by
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    the light or people can see you well but
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    really you want to make sure that it's
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    you but uh as plain and neutral and
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    professional as you can make it
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    that said given the pandemic everybody's
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    getting a little more casual but it's an
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    interview so
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    as much as you can keep it distraction
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    free that's the best thing
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    the second tip is show your real
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    background
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    if it's suitable and what that means is
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    you know on zoom and a lot of other
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    platforms you can show a virtual
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    background and an image or a photo that
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    you choose
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    it can even be a video what i'd
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    recommend for an interview is you don't
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    do that
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    it's distracting you know i have a
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    friend who has a rolling beach going
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    you're looking at the beach in the palm
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    trees you're not looking at
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    the individual so if you can do it the
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    authentic real background is best
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    we do want to select professional
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    attire now that's even changed in the
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    world of the pandemic we're all
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    a little looser a little more
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    comfortable but i would
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    recommend that you think about what you
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    would be wearing if you went to the
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    office to interview
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    now that doesn't mean a suit and a tie
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    make sure it's professional make
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    sure that for instance as if you were
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    doing a photo shoot you don't want to
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    have things distract like big jewelry
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    or things that make noise you want it
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    simple and professional
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    so you absolutely want to ready your
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    sound and video equipment
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    first you know what it's like when
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    and you're running late and you're
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    sweating and you're nervous well it's
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    the exact same thing
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    if your video and audio equipment aren't
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    ready get them ready beforehand
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    an hour early a half hour early show up
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    click on that link beforehand
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    just be fully ready so that when the
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    interview starts it's all you and you're
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    not distracted and nervous
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    demonstrate positive body language and
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    behavior
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    what you want to do is make sure that
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    you are engaged
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    that you're using eye contact that
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    you're not slumping
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    think about how you would be presenting
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    yourself live it's the exact same thing
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    your
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    verbal and non-verbal language that you
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    attention that you're not distracted
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    looking over here looking at your phone
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    looking down
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    but in general you want to be as focused
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    and present
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    with your language both verbal and
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    non-verbal
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    let's talk about engaging the
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    interviewer so you do that with your
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    eyes you do that with your smile
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    you do that with your energy so what you
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    don't want to do
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    is seem bored you want to
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    you know with your voice with your eyes
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    show
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    how interested you are in this in this
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    job because if
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    if you are kind of lackadaisical and
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    sitting back
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    and not even interested in the interview
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    it's going to leave a lasting impression
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    that
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    you're not the right fit as with every
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    interview you go on
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    every meeting you have prepare prepare
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    prepare i can't say
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    that enough read everything you can
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    about
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    you know on glassdoor ratings of that
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    company look
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    at the person you're interviewing on
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    linkedin do
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    everything you can to feel like i know
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    what i have to ask i know what this role
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    is looking for and i know how i can fit
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    in that role
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    unbelievably most people cannot
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    speak fluidly and compellingly about
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    what they do
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    and why they're great and why what they
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    do is important and how they've moved
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    the needles
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    at the organizations they've worked at
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    if you don't know how to do that and i
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    call that
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    knowing the 20 facts of you if you don't
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    know how to do that
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    your interviews kind of lay there
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    there's not a lot of juice that you're
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    bringing to it
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    so the tip is this this weekend go sit
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    quietly somewhere
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    and write down the 20 accomplishments
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    you've had
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    that you are most thrilled and proud of
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    write them down and then dimensionalize
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    them what skills did you use
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    and why were those accomplishments
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    important to you into the organization
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    and make sure you weave those into your
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    interview
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    it's really important you practice with
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    a friend or coaching buddy but on video
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    you know you're speaking in such an
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    almost flat way you're not
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    feeling the energy or hearing the energy
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    of the other person
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    so for most people you need to practice
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    so get on zoom with your best friend the
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    friend that's gonna say
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    all right i'd love to give you a few
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    tips and practice the interview
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    practice how you're gonna answer the
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    tough questions and then go back and
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    watch and you're gonna see where oh i
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    faltered when i said this
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    or i struggle and do it again and again
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    until it's very fluid and comfortable
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    for you
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    finally remember that you're talented
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    and that you are so valuable
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    we forget that it's a two-way street we
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    forget
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    that we should be interviewing them as
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    much as they are interviewing us not an
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    aggressive way
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    but you need to understand your values
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    your non-negotiables the thing you want
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    next in your career
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    and you need to ask questions that are
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    going to make sure you can vet this job
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    as much as they are vetting you so if
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    you're looking for a job today
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    uh which so many people are what you
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    want to make sure you're doing is
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    bringing
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    all of yourself to to the interview and
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    it will be video now
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    so remember there's just really simple
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    doable practical tips most importantly
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    be yourself but be your best self know
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    exactly what you want them to understand
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    about you
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    about your great talents and how you can
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    leverage those
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    and make a real difference in this great
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    new job
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  • attire
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  • background
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