How to Prepare for a Virtual Screening Interview

How can you prepare pre-screening kind of video interviews, what you want to do is you want to practice with your phone.

So if you've got your phone, you don't have to upload this anywhere, but just practice talking into your phone.

And the specific technique that I want to share with you, I got from my podcast.

I was having a professional voice actor record the intro.

to my podcast.

And this is not the one we currently use, but a few years back, we had an intro that a voice actor did three different versions of.

I didn't ask him to, he just did three different versions.

And it was a voice actor who had done a lot of like Ford truck commercials and like Texas truck dealership commercials.

And he gave us three versions.

And the first version was like, welcome to Principal Center Radio.

The second version was like, welcome to Principal Center Radio.

And then the third version was like full on monster truck rally.

Like, what Welcome to Principles at a Radio, like deranged sounding level of enthusiasm.

I thought, what is this guy doing?

This sounds absolutely nuts.

But when we put it with music, like we compared all three versions with the music and as actual intros to the podcast.

And we realized that in audio, the Monster Truck Rally version 3 actually worked the best.

That ended up being the one that we used, even though on first listen, just like sitting at my computer listening to it by itself, it sounded really demented.

It ended up working out really well.

And what that taught me about recorded formats is that you have to send energy in a kind of a different way, right?

When you're coming through only through a video, and of course that case was just audio, but when you have video, you have to exaggerate everything or you're going to sound much more boring than you would in person.

right like when you're in person with someone you don't need them to be all animated and you might comment on it if they're a little bit too animated but everybody looks dead if they don't ham it up a little bit on video right like the expressions that you see on my face in this video like if i was sitting two feet away from you i would not be going like this and you know doing all this stuff and you have to practice that you can't ham it up just cold and expect it to work out well But I promise you, if you video yourself talking in your normal way, you're going to look dead.

You're going to seem like you're asleep and your audience is going to be asleep when they're screening your videos.

So everybody is different.

Every personality is different.

You don't know if you're going to come across at like level three or level five monster truck rally, or if you're going to be a snooze fest naturally.

Personally, I am naturally a snooze fest and really have to dial it up for video.

And that's just the way I talk, right?

I just normally talk in...

kind of a quiet way and you've got to figure out what works for you so practice this on video before you have a real interview that's the thing like a lot of people get an interview and they're like oh i guess i have to do this and that's the first time they've tried it like don't make that mistake it is absolutely predictable that you're going to have to answer interview questions to get the job and there is no reason at all not to practice and especially if you know there's going to be a video interview component practice on video let me know if you have any questions about that