Practice Job Interviews With Someone You Have a Crush On

Practicing your job interview skills with a friend or family member is a great way to get experience without paying for a hiring coach, but the downside is it's hard to recreate the natural power dynamics or feeling of pressure with someone you know really well. Here's where this idea comes in - I challenge you to ask your crush to practice job interviewing with you! This works especially well for job-seekers, but also works for hiring managers (you need to be able to sell the role to the candidate, too!).

Why?

• You want to impress them, just like you would the interviewer. Your body might kick in its typical physiological effects, so you can also practice how to respond to that in real time. The nerves you feel are real, so it's as close as you can get to the actual interview power dynamic.

• You can practice stepping out of your comfort zone to ask them to do something vulnerable with you. It's not that unlike applying for a role, or cold outreach to a recruiter, hr person or business owner.

• You probably want to spend some extra time with them. Stacking something you need to do with something you really want to do will help you stay on track working towards your goal! Extra points if they're also working on their job interview skills and benefits them just as much.

• Once you get more reps/volume of job interview practice in, it can be more cost effective to work with a hiring coach to get to the next level.

Do it and tell me how it works out! I want an invite to your wedding. ;)