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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jessica Booker" data-source="post: 20712" data-attributes="member: 2672">Having graduate recruitment experience, I was wondering if you regard candidates having nerves during an interview as a strong negative? I had an interview at yesterday, and although I wasn't shaking the table/obviously jittery, I think an internal nervousness definitely made my answers less coherent than I wanted them to be. The interview didn't feel bad, but I know the standard for these interviews is very high. Obviously it will depend on who you interview with (my interviewers were a member of HR, and senior associate), but I was wondering what you stance is as to nerves.Your perception of nerves is very different to what the interview will think/see. It’s likely you are over thinking it and overly scrutinising yourself (pretty standard behaviour post interview). Also standards in interview are not typically “very high” to be honest - it just a case that many people come into interviews and do an “okay” job and then recruiters give fairly unhelpful feedback to say people did a “good job” but there were stronger candidates on the day.Any decent interviewer will understand nerves will play a part and that under other circumstances those nerves may not be present. But at the same time interviewers need to be confident that you can be the type of person who can manage a client conversation with confidence and if the nerves seem to have got the better of you, this can be of concern as to whether the same behaviours would be seen in the work place. So there is a fine line and where that line sits will be with the individual bias of the interviewer(s) - if they are someone who gets more nervous they are probably more accepting, if they have recently had a bad situation with a trainee screwing up from nerves they are likely to be less accepting.If your answers were incoherent that is a worry, and it won’t be obvious that is down to nerves. An interviewer may assume that your can’t just articulate your points clearly and concisely.</blockquote>

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