How should you stand before an interview?

Before your next job interview, find the nearest bathroom stall or any private space and power pose for 2 minutes to boost your confidence. You can also begin a regular practice of power posing daily. Notice how you feel and how others respond to you.

What kind of pose does Amy Cuddy suggest we take before an interview?

Made famous through a Ted Talk, social psychologist Amy Cuddy revealed in 2012 a study that suggested a ‘power pose’ can improve your confidence. This pose is simple: stand with your feet apart and raise your arms above your head with your hands clenched in a fist. It’s a triumphant stance.

What 2 physiological changes occur when you strike a power pose?

By holding our bodies in a position of power, our hormones react immediately — our testosterone goes up and our cortisol goes down — resulting in calm confidence that we feel and others experience.

Does the power stance work?

In response, in 2018 Amy Cuddy and her team published a 2017 study of their own to refute the contradictory studies that proved that power posing makes people feel powerful. However, it does not go as far as her original paper in proving any correlation to a real, hormonal change.

How to do power posing for a job interview?

Power Posing: 1 Participants were either posed in high-power or low-power stances before going into a mock job interview. 2 The high-power stance was standing with legs apart and hands on hips, with elbows wide. 3 The low-power stance was standing with arms crossed at the hips and legs crossed.

What do you need to know about power stance?

Along with power, come control, success, respect and an entirely novel outlook on life. The need for attaining power is what drives all people — from those working within a small community to those functioning on a global platform. Some of the greatest progress in history is a result of the search for power.

Do you use the power pose before a Skype interview?

Same before you take an important Skype or phone call; the caller won’t necessarily see you, but your voice will emote those positive characteristics. Using the power pose will change the way you think and talk during the interview. You will exude confidence you never knew you had.

How much time should you spend on power posing?

According to Amy Cuddy, a social psychologist at Harvard Business School, everyone should spend two minutes power posing. What, you ask, is power posing? It is adopting the stances associated with confidence, power and achievement — chest lifted, head held high, arms either up or propped on the hips.