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Practical advice for interviewing in another language and speaking on camera without losing your thread.

• InterviewPassing a job interview in English when you are not fluentYou read and write well enough, but speaking live is another story. The good news: recruiters know this, and English is almost never what sinks an interview. What sinks it is silence, off-target answers, and claims with no proof.
• VideoFree online teleprompter: speak on camera without losing your placeA teleprompter scrolls your script while you film. You no longer need to memorise it, and you stop losing your place halfway through a sentence. Set up properly, it is invisible: it just looks like you are talking naturally to the camera.
• InterviewThe most common job interview questions in English, and how to answer themJob interviews in English are very similar from one company to the next: about ten questions come up almost every time. Knowing them in advance means you can prepare your answers in your own words, instead of inventing them under pressure in a language that is not your first.
• Interview“Tell me about yourself”: how to answer in a job interviewIt is almost always the first question, and it sets the tone for the whole interview. The good news: it is also the only one you can prepare entirely in advance.
• VideoHow to speak on camera without stumbling: techniques that workAlmost everyone loses their footing the first time they film themselves. It is not a lack of talent: talking to a lens, with no face in front of you and no reaction, is not natural. It can be learned, with a few simple techniques.