Consider a position where you desperately want the job. It might be the money, conditions or you just don’t enjoy your current job anymore. The night before you decide to prepare for the interview.

Taking out your CV and looking through it your mind is full of ideas that only the incompetent get the best jobs. You have to have the gift of the gab or have an uncle working for the company and there must be hundreds of people with better experience and skills. You practice imagining the interviewer naked as a way to calm you down. It works for a few minutes until you suddenly realise they might be doing the same to you.

Reluctantly you put your barely read CV away and go to bed to dream of turning up to the interview naked. Having slept in you barely make it to the company on time. Being out of breath you wheeze the name of your interviewer at the receptionist and go blank when she asks you for your name. You get the idea she does not think much of you.

A few minutes later a sour faced old cow greets you as your interviewer. She smiles at you like a serial killer just about to fall on their prey as she leads you to the interview room. In a desperate attempt to clam down you start some small talk. This basically consists of babbling something about the weather, the traffic and some TV you watched last night. Luckily the interview room is close by.

You eventually make it to the interview room and the old crone offers you a coffee. After spending a few minutes wiping yourself down from the coffee you just spilt down your front the old crone asks if you are ready to start the interview proper. She then says something like, “Just as a nice gentle start, talk me through your CV."

You immediately start to worry about what is going to happen when it gets rough. You then realise you didn’t bring any copies of your CV and can’t remember what is on it. A few minutes of you wittering about your favourite holiday destinations and she now things your CV is a fake.

The old crone decides to focus you in on some key areas by asking why you want to leave your current employment. You fumble around trying not to admit that you hate the company, the work and your boss and eventually hit on a “looking for fresh challenges" answer. Annoyingly she asks what sort of fresh challenges you think her company will give you.

Panicking you scramble for an answer. An image of her naked flashes through your mind and you realise that this won’t work for you. Suddenly realising that she might be thinking of you naked puts the original question out of your mind and you sit their blankly. A whole lifetime later and the interview is still going on.

At the point where you have lost all feeling in your extremities your old hag tells you that this is your chance to ask questions as she has finished hers. Trying to appear still alive you ask her how soon will the organisation make a decision. She answers the question, and leaves you outside the company wondering if you have got the job.

Whilst many people will have had some experience of this sort of this imagine an interview where you are so confident that you build massive amounts of rapport with the interviewer as well as take control of the interview. You then answer all the interview questions implanting suggestions that you are the best candidate for the role whilst turning any objections in to benefits. How good would this sort of interview feel?

Seem impossible? Perhaps not, many of these skills are naturally occurring and you have certainly seen others do this as part of their daily lives.

Think about circumstances where you have heard about someone just ambling through life getting what everything, including the jobs they want. These are the people using these skills, sometimes naturally, sometimes they have been trained. In most cases you can learn all these skills in a matter of hours.

Your CV could be rewritten in less than a couple of hours adding lots of NLP and psychological pull to get more interviews than you could dream of. It may take a couple of hours working through a Hypnotic Interview Answer formula, but once it is done you will be able to answer interview questions powerfully for life.

Learning to build rapport, maintain your composure and banish interview nerves sounds difficult but could take as little as thirty minutes.A couple of hours mastering job interview techniques would make the difference for most people between the job you are doing and a truly great job.