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From: Chris Roach
Date: 21 Oct 2004
Time: 22:13:31 -0500
Remote Name: 205.188.116.130
Greta, Thanks for your kind comments. You're so right in that some and perhaps even many interviews will "go bad." It's easy for us to blame a bad day of stuttering on shutting off any potential hope of that interview. I understand -- believe me!! I've had sales calls that were disastrous, I felt, because it was a bad stuttering day! I was frustrated, angry and disappointed. But you know what happened, right? The next call was better. My next occasion to talk with that person was with confident speech and my time up at bat in selling myself was successful. The key is not beat yourself up over bad experiences AND to also know that as long as you're prepared, polished, poised, positive, etc. (all the things we talk about in the article) and you STILL get a negative result, you're the luckiest person in the world to have learned early that this might not be a place you want to work! Plus, for every "difficult" interview, you should feel strengthened and more assured that you can take that experience and share it with the next interview in a positive vein as a learning and growing experience, thereby evidencing another opportunity to use your stuttering to reflect your poise and confidence. Greta, hang in there. Do everything you can to be competitive, walk in and do the best job you can, then keep moving forward. You'll never fail with that approach. Good luck! Chris