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Change your approach to interview preparation and set yourself up for success in the new year. This episode provides practical tips on reshaping your mindset, preparing key examples about yourself, and the significance of intentional preparation. 

• Shifting perspective from answering questions to telling your story 
• Importance of a proactive approach to interview prep 
• Creating an "Interview Examples" file for easy reference 
• Emphasizing self-awareness and strengths in interviews 
• Encouragement to start applying these insights immediately

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Hey everyone and welcome to the Equipped
Interview Podcast.
With a combined 30 plus yearsof being interviewed and
interviewing thousands of others, we're here to build your
confidence, help you stand outand get your dream job.
Your hosts are Joshua Tinkeyand Linda Kamali.
Let's get you equipped Allright.
Well, as a reminder, in theseshort Monday episodes we bring
you some motivation to help youreally push through that

(00:36):
potentially stressful or evenfrustrating time of interview
prep.
For you, we share a quick hit,practical tips, reminders and
steps you can take to get yourweek going.
The goal is to keep it aroundfive minutes and, nice and short
, jumpstart your week.
For today's topic, we're goingto give you an important step
you can take today to start yournew year right and get one step
closer to getting that joboffer.
I know it's been a little bitsince we've put out episodes, so

(00:58):
for those of you who have beenasking, I'm excited to share
that.
We have a ton of stuff comingin 2025.
So stay tuned for that and,most importantly, thank you for
continuing to listen and shareyour feedback.
It's awesome to see it.
Love it For everyone else.
If you've just stumbled onto theEquipped Interview podcast, I
suggest listening to this today,but then going back and
listening to some of the mostpopular and helpful episodes

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that we hear helped others.
I'd recommend episodes four,which is all about answering
tell me about yourself commonquestion, and episode 15, which
gives the top 15 commoninterview questions that you
should prep for.
Also, if, after today's episode, you want to cut out the
sometimes it feels endless timesearching online for the best

(01:40):
ways to prep for an interview, Ican absolutely help you there.
I spent years doing that stuffand interviewing others along
the way, of course, and boiledit all down to the most
important steps that you cantake.
So you can check out thedigital book that we have on the
website.
That includes frameworks,checklists and almost like fill
in the blank type stuff for youto just apply your situation to

(02:02):
the content on there.
So that's atequippedinterviewcom forward
slash books.
If you want to check that outor if you want to get one-on-one
coaching, that's alwaysavailable Check out the work
with me section onequippedinterviewcom.
All right, now let's dive intowhat we said we talk about today
.
What is the one step you cantake today to start your year
right and get you closer to thatjob offer?

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All right, the answer is turnyour interview prep upside down.
Here's what I mean by that.
Change your approach and starttoday.
So change your approach andstart today.
Sometimes, approach, sometimes Iuse the word mindset, but
here's what I mean by that.
Oftentimes I'll hear peoplelike I, coach, or just anyone.
I talk to their questions intheir head.
Right, they're thinking well,I'm not sure where to start.

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Or maybe you're worried thatyou're not sure what questions
the interviewer is going to askyou.
Maybe you're stressed thatyou're not confident enough or
you're not going to stand outagainst others.
I mean, hey, most people are,most people are thinking that,
but if you change your approach,it alleviates a lot of that, a
lot of that stress andfrustration.
I talk about this all the time.
Changing your approach andreally your mindset is the first

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and most important step thatyou can take, because everything
else follows Meaning.
You need to recognize that aninterview is not about answering
whatever questions they ask.
It is about telling theinterviewer what you need to
tell them, going in with anintentional plan to share the
most important things about you.
So, practically speaking,what's that look like to share

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the most important things aboutyou?
So, practically speaking,what's that look like.
During your prep, you need toidentify all the important
examples, stories, qualitiesabout yourself, why you want the
job, your experience, yourexcitement.
Know yourself, in other words,and study that like crazy.
Know yourself and everythingabout you that you want to share
.
That's what's most important,not worrying about what they're
going to ask you, because then,no matter what questions you get

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, you just fit that into whatyou need to fit that into the
question that they ask.
It doesn't really matter whatquestion they ask.
Sure, you have to, you have tomake it make sense, but I teach
you how to do that in theseepisodes, in the free resources
on the website or if you sign upfor coaching with me.
We talk a lot about how to dothis really well, change your
approach or mindset and thenjust start today.

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So here's another, even reallyeven more practical thing you
can do right now Grab your phone, a notebook, whatever make a
file titled interview examplesand then just keep a close by
and that's it.
And then anytime this week,next week, a month from now,
anytime you have a thought orsome great feedback from your
boss, maybe your project goessouth and you have a negative

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example, whatever pull out yourphone or notebook and add a few
quick notes that'll help youremember the situation later,
even months later, right whenyou're doing your formal
interview prep, whenever thattime might come.
Help future you by startingwith that simple step today.
Grab your phone notebook, makea file titled interview examples

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and keep it close by and beready.
So, to sum it all up, get yournew year off to a great start
with those two simple steps.
Change your approach and howyou think about interviews and
start today.
Well, I hope you enjoyed thisquick hit Monday motivation
episode.
Stay tuned for our regularepisodes on Wednesday and
another Monday Motivationepisode next week.
That's all for today, but let'skeep the conversation going.
Check out equippedinterviewcom,be intentional, do the work and

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build your confidence to standout in your next job interview.
Thank you.