Have you ever considered taping a blank piece of paper to your computer screen during online interviews to reduce anxiety?
Background:
Do you struggle with panic attacks during nerve-wracking situations?
Explanation:
Learn how blocking your screen can help you feel more comfortable during virtual job interviews.
Tip:
- Discover how focusing on the camera instead of the screen can improve your confidence.
- Find out how seeing shadows or silhouettes of interviewers can enhance your experience.
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Whatever works for you.
Yes
Maybe it’s weird, maybe it ain’t, but it works for you so keep on keepin’ on.
How will you handle in-person though?
Yes
My sister did something similar for a job interview because she has terrible social anxiety; she’s been working at a FAANG company for 5 years now.
wait till the screen share and the faces move to the side.
No! It’s actually pretty clever!
That’s…. actually genius.
this is kind-of brilliant. i might try this. it probably lessons the distractions and helps you focus.
Great idea!!!
No, i minimize the Zoom/Teams/Webex window so I don’t ahve to look at them.
…just when you thought the younger generations couldn’t possibly get any softer and weaker…
I open a blank Notepad doc and cover the interviewers’ faces for the same reason
I’m curious, when on Teams, can you minimize the screen and still be seen on video? I’d like to look at notes or something and don’t want the interviewer to know I’m looking at notes and not them
Omg wait I love this
Sounds like a great idea. I always get uptight, too, when I look at the blank spot where corporate blood-sucking vampires are sitting.
I would tend to say – whatever works for you.
However, against the general support vibe on your post – yes, that is very very weird. Don’t get me wrong, it’s normal and healthy to be nervous for an interview, and some cope better than others. What is definitely true is that as long as you get the job, it wasn’t even a bad idea.
But the underlying fact that you actually **get nervous** by interacting, looking into the eyes and seeing their facial expression / body language is not boding well for you. And is definitely not normal, no, and i think it’s healthy to address that directly with people that know you in real life.
I often have the video screen minimized and the screen with my notes up, and it really does help.
i feel anxious if i cant properly read their expressions though. i try to look above their picture in the interview if im nervous or trying to think of an answer