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Hi, this is Stephanie Maas.

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Today I wanna give you a couple recommendations if you are preparing for an all day
interview or a half day interview, where you are gonna be either in front of a panel.

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Or if you're gonna have a series of several back to back to back to back to back interviews.

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Now if you're working with a good recruiter through this, they will and should
coach you through each of the different personalities, their agendas, hot buttons,
so forth and so on, which obviously I can't do in a general forum like this.

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But I wanna give you some other general tips to help make that time go by well.

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First and foremost, I do think either, again, if you're going back to back to back
interviews or if you'll be in a panel interview meeting with several times at once,
you need to come into those interviews extremely well prepared, very well organized.

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You need to know each of the different folks that you'll be talking with.

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Their background, their hot buttons.

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Their agenda and where they fall in the decision making of this particular hire.

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The other thing I would highly recommend is go back through your own background.

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Come up with one or two stories that exhibit either a skillset or a
trait that you wanna make sure speaks to each one of those interviewers.

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As well as a list of five to six specific questions that you can ask each one
of those interviewers, and it needs to be, again, extremely well organized.

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Second thing is you need to be a extremely.

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Patient.

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Usually when you are, especially when you're in a panel interview, there could be some flow of
them kind of fighting to talk or ask you questions or, Hey, you're gonna get three questions here.

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You're gonna get three questions here.

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Then someone might pin in, well, what about this over here?

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This is an excellent time for you to be an extremely patient and disciplined listener.

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You wanna make sure, again, especially if it's multiple interviewers.

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Or multiple interviews throughout the same day that you are very
thoughtful that you are answering the questions that are asked.

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Absolutely.

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Don't be afraid to repeat the question.

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Hey, for, you know, for example, Hey John, lemme make sure I understand what you're asking me.

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If I heard you correctly.

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Here's what you're trying to find out.

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When they say Yes, that's what I want.

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Huh?

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Interesting question.

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Let me, yeah, I've got a couple of thoughts I'd love to share.

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Or they may say, well, no, actually this is what I meant.

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So you have to be very patient and disciplined, especially on the listening side.

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The third thing is you've really got to have some stamina so that you
maintain a high energy level throughout the entire interview or interview day.

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This means basic things like absolutely try and do your best to get a
good night's sleep the night before if they offer you something to drink.

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You take it, you're gonna need it.

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So again, unless you're used to drinking six cups of
coffee a day, I don't recommend going that direction.

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For sure.

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I would love some water.

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Or if you know you need the caffeine to keep it going and you're
again, you're used to it, go ahead, get that cup of coffee again.

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That also means you've gotta factor in bathroom breaks.

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If you are in a back to back to back to back to back interviews.

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And you finish up the second or third one and they say, Hey,
is there anything that you need before you get to the next one?

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It is a fantastic time to say, actually, if you don't mind, um, you
know, if I could use the ladies room or the men's room real quick.

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Two things that does.

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Obviously there's a bodily function there involved, but also it gives you a time to
collect yourself, review your notes, kind of get it together before the next interview.