Interview Skills for International & ESL Professionals: Hiring Reality

This session is for international professionals preparing for interviews and career moves in Western markets who want to understand how they are actually evaluated — not how interviews are supposed to work in theory.

Many skilled candidates fail interviews despite strong English, solid experience, and preparation. The issue is rarely confidence or intelligence. It is usually misaligned signaling.

In this session, we will cover:

• Why hiring is about risk reduction, not fairness
• How HR, recruiters, founders, and technical interviewers evaluate candidates differently
• The most common mistakes international professionals make in interviews
• How online presence and camera behavior silently downgrade candidates
• The difference between accent and clarity — and when an accent can be an advantage
• How to express value instead of effort when answering questions
• Why “impostor syndrome” is often a misunderstanding of the system, not a personal flaw

This is not:

• an English class
• a public speaking workshop
• a motivation or confidence seminar

This is:

• a practical, reality-based discussion
• small group, capped attendance
• concrete examples from real interviews and hiring processes

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From the speaker:
Thanks for joining. This session is discussion-based and capped, so please come ready to participate (camera on).

Think in advance about:

• what market you’re targeting
• who you’ve interviewed with (HR / founder / technical)
• where you feel interviews break down for you

I’ll send the Google Meet link 30 minutes before the start time. The Google Meet link will be sent to registered participants 30 minutes before the event starts.