Mastering Job Interviews: How to Handle Stress Questions Effectively
Learn the best strategies to answer job interview questions about handling stress without revealing negative aspects. Tips to impress recruiters.
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How Do You Handle Stress Best Answer (from former CEO)
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Speaker 1: Hey everyone, today I'm gonna give you the best answer to the job interview question, how do you handle stress? Now there are many variations on this question. How well do you handle stress? How do you handle work pressure? How do you handle conflict? They may ask you about occupational stress or work-related stress or managing stress. Not to fear, it's all essentially the same question and you always give the same answer. Okay, there are a couple of principles at play here. Number one, never say anything bad about yourself during a job interview. The more you dwell on the negative aspects of yourself, the more the recruiter or hiring manager will develop a bad impression of you. And not only that, but if you look at this from the perspective of the recruiter or hiring manager, your resume may look wonderful, but the purpose of the interview is to really get the dirt on you, really find out what's actually going on with this candidate and see if there's grounds to eliminate them. Okay, second point here, this is actually a bad question to be asked during an interview because in order to give the interviewer what they're looking for, in all likelihood, you're gonna have to be dwelling on the bad aspects of yourself. So the goal here is to answer the question in an acceptable way while at the same time, not giving them the dirt on you. Okay, third and final point, there's actually a really important aspect of human nature at play here. When you're in an interview with somebody else, people generally don't like long silences and will tend to feel a certain amount of pressure to fill the silence with conversation. So if someone asks you, how do you handle stress? A good answer that tends to work really well is to say, oh, I actually handle it very well. Now, 90% of the time, the interviewer will simply move on to the next question and you're done. You passed. Now, in the rare case that they push you for more information, a good response to that is to say, well, a certain amount of stress is sometimes unavoidable, but it's never been a problem for me in the past. Now, in the vast majority of instances, the interviewer will simply move on to the next question and once again, you pass. You answered the question in an acceptable way and you did not reveal anything negative about yourself. It's true. Well, there you go. Hopefully that was helpful. If you like this video, you gotta push a whole bunch of buttons and if you don't know what buttons to press, just press, just hit all of them, okay? Get the like button, the subscribe button, the bell button, and I will definitely be doing more videos in this series on getting hired, so this ensures that you don't miss a single video. That would be terrible. And please let me know in the comments what your experiences have been with this job interview question, whether they've gone well or whether they've gone not so well. Please let me know. The more we share real world experiences, the more we learn. And check out my Patreon site to get even more stuff and the ability to direct message me and ask me some business questions. Anyway, I'm Bill, the company's expert. Thank you so much for being here and watching my videos and I don't care what they say, you are a very, very awesome individual. Thank you.

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