CaptBob
01-10-2004, 02:07 PM
Psyching Yourself Out?
It's all in the four inches between your ears.
You can't know what the oral board panel is thinking. Once you start trying, you will tank your oral board score. Just give your best performance no matter what you think the oral board is doing. Trying to interpret the expressions, attitudes of the panel, what they are writing, etc., can be a mental disaster that can throw off you timing, inflection and enthusiasm. I had several candidates contact me after their orals where I was on their panel. They would tell me what they thought I was thinking or doing. They were never right.
So, no matter what is going on, this is your 20-30 minute opportunity to audition for the part of being a firefighter. It’s show time like a Broadway play! The bright lights are coming on. The curtain is going up. You have to grab your top hat, your cane and step it out with the magic, excitement of why they should select you! If you haven’t prepared your script and practiced it with a tape recorder (over 90% of candidates I talk to haven’t) so it becomes second nature to you, you’re competition who has prepared will destroy you. All it takes is a few hundred’s of points here on this question and a few there on that question and you have pulled away from the clone pack and nailed a badge!
You can find more on testing secrets in the Career Article section from the Jobs drop down menu just above this posting.
"Nothing counts 'til you have the badge . . . Nothing!"
Fire "Captain Bob"
www.eatstress.com
It's all in the four inches between your ears.
You can't know what the oral board panel is thinking. Once you start trying, you will tank your oral board score. Just give your best performance no matter what you think the oral board is doing. Trying to interpret the expressions, attitudes of the panel, what they are writing, etc., can be a mental disaster that can throw off you timing, inflection and enthusiasm. I had several candidates contact me after their orals where I was on their panel. They would tell me what they thought I was thinking or doing. They were never right.
So, no matter what is going on, this is your 20-30 minute opportunity to audition for the part of being a firefighter. It’s show time like a Broadway play! The bright lights are coming on. The curtain is going up. You have to grab your top hat, your cane and step it out with the magic, excitement of why they should select you! If you haven’t prepared your script and practiced it with a tape recorder (over 90% of candidates I talk to haven’t) so it becomes second nature to you, you’re competition who has prepared will destroy you. All it takes is a few hundred’s of points here on this question and a few there on that question and you have pulled away from the clone pack and nailed a badge!
You can find more on testing secrets in the Career Article section from the Jobs drop down menu just above this posting.
"Nothing counts 'til you have the badge . . . Nothing!"
Fire "Captain Bob"
www.eatstress.com