From Amy Cuddy TED presentation

From Amy Cuddy TED presentation

If you haven’t yet watched social psychologist Amy Cuddy’s TED talk “Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are” I highly recommend you do so, especially if you have a job interview coming up.

In the talk, Cuddy references power poses (along the lines of laying back in your chair with arms open wide) and how these can positively influence your performance on an interview, regardless of the content of what you have to say. I showed this to women in my current class for women jobseekers while discussing interviewing. Do I know for sure this works? Not yet. Though if all it takes is two minutes in a private place before you head into a stressful interview situation of any kind, it’s worth a try.