Making Interviews into Speech Content

Almost every one of us has had confrontational interviewers and questions we didn't particularly want to field. We were literally caught "off guard".

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(SALEM, Ore.) - Several months ago I unleashed a brand new subject for our Table Topics session: job interview experiences. To my surprise, this topic aroused inner passions as though it were hidden in Pandora's Box. So let's go public and tell the TM World out there.

Job Interviews are often among the more stressful experiences we each face. It is a flashback to getting a report card in grade school. Hence, we squirm inside.

Almost every one of us has had confrontational interviewers and questions we didn't particularly want to field. We were literally caught "off guard".

The Toastmasters Club supplies us an excellent chance to get that off of our chests. Not as Table Topics but as a bonafide speech. It's a splendid subject that others can easily relate to. Even our retired members who once worked.

Instead of Monday Morning quarterbacking, we can use our speech to self-evaluate how prepared we were for that tricky interview. And we now have a second chance: just what changes in strategy or response would we have wanted, looking back?

Toastmaster speeches are custom-made for self-empowerment. If we do not take up that challenge, nobody else will hand it to us. Are you geared up to go forward?