{"id":73,"date":"2020-11-19T23:13:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T07:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/sciencecoop\/?p=73"},"modified":"2022-02-24T16:36:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T00:36:15","slug":"tips-for-confident-speaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/sciencecoop\/tips-for-confident-speaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for confident speaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guest writer: Emma Coleman, Science Co-op Peer Mentor and Chemistry Co-op Student<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The surprising secret to speaking with confidence | Caroline Goyder | TEDxBrixton\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a2MR5XbJtXU?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">Practice!<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">Interviews are stressful situations and one way to make them less scary is to practice your answers to common interview questions. This week&#8217;s IPP session and the mock interviews are great places to practice your interview skills and gain confidence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">\u00a0Breathe.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">The speaker in the video demonstrates a breathing technique that can be a helpful way to calm yourself down before entering a stressful situation like interviewing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">Thinking. <\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">Remember that it is okay to take a little bit of time to think about your answers before you start speaking. One way to avoid rambling answers is to take a moment to plan your response in your head before you start saying it out loud.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest writer: Emma Coleman, Science Co-op Peer Mentor and Chemistry Co-op Student Practice! Interviews are stressful situations and one way to make them less scary is to practice your answers to common interview questions. This week&#8217;s IPP session and the mock interviews are great places to practice your interview skills and gain confidence.\u00a0 \u00a0Breathe. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":856,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","tag-public-speaking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/sciencecoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/sciencecoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/sciencecoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/sciencecoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/856"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/sciencecoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/sciencecoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1338,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/sciencecoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/1338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/sciencecoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/sciencecoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/sciencecoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}