This Increases Your Chances Of 162 Percent Jobs

It does not have to face a job interview with a submissive attitude. A proper mindset can be crucial to whether you get the job, new research shows.

If one were described feelings you know on the one sits down to be grilled in a job interview, will probably few people use words like power, impact and influence. Although one really knows more on the elements of anxiety, low self-esteem and powerlessness, it might be smart to at least think that they are in a position of power.

David Dubois, Assistant Professor of Marketing at INSEAD Business School, believes this can be crucial if you end up getting the job.

In the research project "Power gets the job: Priming power improves interview outcomes" has Dubois and colleagues tested whether it is possible to manipulate the mindset so that you go into a job interview with a sense of more power than they would otherwise have done, writes INSEAD Knowledge.

The project divided the students into three groups. One group was asked to write an essay about an episode where they had much power. Another group would write about an incident where they were powerless, and the third group wrote nothing.

After the essay was written were the candidates were sent straight into a recording interview to a business school. 47.1 percent of students were accepted by the school. Among those who had first written an essay that they had power, was 68 per cent accepted. Among those who had written an essay about powerlessness, it was 26 percent who entered. The interviewers were not aware that this experiment was in progress, and can therefore be regarded as neutral participants.

The conclusion was that one can increase the likelihood of making a successful interview by 81 percent - simply by "program" right mindset ahead. If you compare them to psych themselves out by thinking negatively before the interview, one can increase the success rate of 162 percent.

Next time you go to a job interview - remember to think positively, and set up the right mindset before you meet your future employer. One possibility would also be to write down a similar essay the day before the job interview, and then read through it while sitting and waiting to be called in.