Internship/Job Interviews Strategies

Have done this for the past two months, was a bit grueling sometimes but I learned a lot. Had 9 interviews in total, part of them were preliminary ones the other were with a head recruiter offering me a contract. Lots of overlap with game hahah Things I learned: 

1. Negotiate your salary at the end when they make you an offer

2. Use other "offers" as leverage to push for either a higher salary or to "false time constraint" them lol hahaha in order for them to make up their mind quicker

3. Make sure you speak with passion for the job, they largely want to hear and feel who you are and how much you want it

4. Maybe use the first interview strategically in order to gauge the general procedure

5. If they send you a quantitative work personality test, do them after a session meditation so you can make more deliberate choices 

6. Do a meditation session before the interview to get into the headspace of relaxed assertiveness

7. Cracking a joke here and there can lighten the mood and relieve the tension

Take what you find useful, hope it helps! -EM

It's been a long time since I've interviewed for something I do more hiring now. I'm sure you know this already but its so much like game. Qualify them, not just yourself ie. why the job is good for you, not just why you are good for the job. Be mindful of the buyer/seller dynamic, know your own worth, assume it. Remember there are unlimited opportunities, don't allow scarcity. Be professional obviously but try to let them see your personality a little. Don't buy in to the tension, if you can stay relaxed and personable in what's meant to be a stressful situation you have already set yourself apart.

edit. I am not an authority on this, this is just my opinion

Cool, thanks for those answers guys. I will revisit this thread before I go in to the interviews and meditate as well. 

I've got one of my students posting up an article on this. He had a pretty severe issue with coming across way too intimidating during his interviews and when most everybody in his graduating class (he attended a prestigious business school) got jobs lined up immediately after graduation, he still didn't have one a year later. We worked on just learning to set people at ease during one of his sessions he had a job two weeks later. FTW