The very first thing that absolutely needs to be addressed is this habit of mine (not sure if it's negative, but it's definitely not positive) to repeat to myself aloud the question that was just asked to me. For example: "what would you do with the scholarship?" "what would I do with the scholarship? hmm, let's see..." I realized this tic of mine immediately after I finished the interview. I'm surprised no one brought it up in the feedback.
Another tic of mine is to end my responses with a tentative "and yeah..." This makes me look not confident in my answers and as a person in general. I should work on this to prevent it for future interviews.
I noticed that we have this tendency to be very general and vague with our responses. We answer the questions in a general light to give the interviewer a broad spectrum. However, for the future I need to make to embellish my responses by giving at least one very specific example.
I thought my handshakes in the beginning and the end were good. My posture was upright and proper. Mark did make a comment saying that I needed to make eye contact with the committee as a whole instead of looking at just the person who had asked me the question. The eye contact issue again. I had thought I looked around the committee multiple times at different people, but it wasn't enough. The usual "um"s and "likes" came up. This issue just revolves around confidence. I feel confident in my responses, but perhaps I do not feel confident being present in front of an audience. This needs to be fixed for my speech next week with the TED talk in plan b mode.
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