How to Do a Mock Interview?

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Interviews can feel intimidating, your hands shiver, your brain races and suddenly your own name feels hard to pronounce. But don't worry, it happen with lot more people and you can overcome it by one thing — Practice! Practice! and more Practice!
So, one of the best way to actually get better, is by doing mock interview, cause this way you do sufficient practice for your upcoming round.

Now we know what you must be thinking, “Isn't that just an act-play for that interview of yours? Isn't that kind of weird?”

Well, whether the answer is yes or no, it is kind of like an act but the aim is not to learn acting skills to get awarded. It is to get comfortable and confident in your responses before you go through your next round and sitting across from a real interview.

So, let's understand how to do the mock interview, without making it awkward and useless.

1. Know What You Are Practicing For

Before you jump in ask yourself, what kind of job is this mock interview for? Define the segment — is it a creative role? Management role? Sales? or whatever it is, just define clearly, cause every role have it's own rhythm and expectations.

2. Find The Right Person To Practice With

There is no requirement of any professional recruiter to run a mock interview. You just need someone who can behave like them — that serious, smart, honest and present type personality to practice with.
You can choose your friend or colleague with similar field, a mentor or coach or may be a career service expert, if (you know anyone like that) or you can check out our services, Jobdekhi.com might offer mock interview to our job seekers too!

3. Set the Scene (Yes, Actually)

Treat your mock interview like the real one — dress up professionally, let your mind feel and create the exact same situation.
Set up distraction free environment, cause it matters — if your brain feel comfort and casual, it will not going to learn how to handle pressure of the real thing, you want those nerves.

4. Ask Real Questions

The goal here is not to memorize line, here we want to make you the way you can get used to speaking, your thought out loud, with clarity and confidence.
Prepare your mock on some questions like:

• “Tell me about a situation where you had to face a challenge at work.”

• “How do you handle tight deadlines?”

And if you are preparing for technical round then must prepare real life problems to solve on the spot.

5. Repeat it — But Smarter

One mock interview is not enough to prepare you for the main course, neither you have to do it for 20 times.
Just do a couple rounds, between each, fix the issue you noticed, tweak your stories and refine your tone, and repeat it — That's it!

A lot people think that mock interviews are useless — they feel fake, but athletes don't just show up in the game immediately, the musician don't come on stage without rehearsing their songs, all of them do practice before arriving on the main ground, so it's a strategy everyone follow for their big moment.