6. Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse. Talk out loud, and walk around while you practice. Use same physical energy you plan to use on day of your presentation.

7. Exercise is antidote to stress. Arrive early and take a brisk walk for at least five minutes. If it is raining or snowing outside, you can still do some body stretches.

8. Abstain from caffeine and alcohol before you speak. You don’t need more jitters. Always wear your favorite outfit and use attractive colors. Women, go simple on jewelry. Avoid too much black and white.

9. The Coach Sez... Most of all, enjoy yourself and have a fun. SMILE. After all, aren’t you glad to be there? The sign of a mature adult is that you are not taking yourself too seriously

10. For trembling hands, place your hand son side of your chair and count to 10 as you try to lift seat. This is an isometric exercise that works and nobody will notice you doing it.

11. Don’t be perfect. Give yourself permission to make mistakes, No one is perfect in real life. Get butterflies in your stomach to fly in formation. That’s who you convert your stress into speaking power!

12. Reduce your nervousness by taking several deep breaths immediately before you’re introduced. And for you chocoholics, eat some chocolate to relax your vocal chords.

13. If you experience dry mouth, chew your tongue to increase saliva flow. Singers do this. Close your lips and bite down on entire surface. Always have a glass of tepid(not cold) water nearby.

14. Focus on a friendly face in audience. Pretend you are having a conversation, rather than giving a speech. Just be yourself.

15. Here is a vocal warm-up exercise used at Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. Say, PaPaPaPa, BaBaBaBa, TaTaTaTa, DaDaDaDa, KaKaKaKa, GaGaGaGa. Then do it backwards. (Courtesy of Robert and Rande Gedaliah)

6.Work on your nonverbal communication.

90% of what we communicate at any given time is not through words, but by nonverbal communication such as expressions, gestures, and posture.

7.Expect best.

Your self-talk is very important all time, and particularly in an interview. Remember it’s YOU who puts thoughts into your own head. (If someone else has done this and you aren’t mindful, get some coaching. It can be changed.) If you go into an interview thinking, i.e., saying to yourself, “I’ll never get this job,” or “no one would ever hire someone my age,” or “here comes another rejection,” you are setting yourself up for defeat. Instead program your thinking.

8.Be mindful of your attributions. They will color your expectations and influence your ability to succeed.

Learned optimism means bad attributing things in a way that isn’t personal, permanent or pervasive. If you don’t get job, attribute it to something not personal (“That interviewer doesn’t know a good candidate when he sees one”), not permanent (“Well, I’m sure I’ll get next job”), and not pervasive (“Not getting that particular job doesn’t reflect on my abilities or rest of my life”).

9.Claim your successes.

When you do get job, and you will, celebrate. This is crucial to your self-esteem and personal power. Attribute it to things personal, permanent, and pervasive. In other words, don’t say it was just luck, or fact that no one else applied. Tell yourself it was because you were best candidate, this is a fact of your life, and applies to your life in general. You got job because you deserved to get it. It is crucial that you celebrate your successes in order to build resilience and manage your self-talk.

10.Get out of your own wake.

If you’ve been on a cruise, and looked at stern of ship, there’s a lot of commotion going on back there. The bow of ship is thrusting cleanly through water, but behind ship there’s churning water that even smart fish have sense to keep away from. It isn’t necessarily bad, and there isn’t much to be learned from it. It’s just what ship has to do to go forward. If outcome of one interview was bad, just keep going forward. Don’t look back.