4 Easy Steps to Prepare for Your Pageant Interview

p>You've sent in the entry forms, paid the entry fee,sipping your juice or morning coffee. Or, maybe you
and shopped for your pageant wardrobe. Now it's timecan find time for a little reading during the week on the
to start thinking about preparing for "The Pageantbus or while riding in the carpool. You could keep
Interview". The interview competition makes you pacereading material in your backpack or tote bag and
the hall, gives you sweaty palms, and can give evensqueeze in a few minutes here and there. If something
the most experienced pageant contestant aon the first page of the paper interests you or is
headache. But how will you ever find time to prepare?relevant to your platform read any follow-up articles
Where do you start? Just take a deep breath andon the following pages.
follow these 4 easy steps to prepare for a top3. Practice your interview questions standing or sitting
pageant interview:in your "interview" position. Will you be sitting during the
1. Watch the morning and/or evening news. This is ainterview competition? Or will you be standing in a
great way to get some "free training time" while you'repanel-style interview? Find out what the interview
doing something else. Watch your favorite newsformat is and practice your questions a few times
channel while getting dressed in the morning, or turn onprior to the pageant standing or sitting the same way
the morning news while eating breakfast. If you're anyou will be in the interview. Once you're at the
early riser I recommend CNN's American Morning. Itcompetition you'll feel more at ease and be able to
has complete news coverage without a lot of fluff.focus on the questions instead of worrying about how
Later in the morning try NBC's The Today Show, oryou're standing or sitting.
ABC's Good Morning, America. Both programs have4. Schedule time on your calendar to practice interview
complete currents events coverage as well asquestions at least twice a week. If you have time
entertainment and pop culture news. (If you're a teenspecifically set aside to practice you're more likely to
contestant you may find CNN a little dry, stick to Theactually do it. Good intentions are just that, good
Today Show or Good Morning America.) In theintentions, but going over those questions requires time
evening, try watching TV while you're changing clothesset aside just for practice. Maybe you decide to
after school or while you're preparing dinner. And Ipractice five questions each night right before bed. Or
know you're working out; kill two birds with one stoneperhaps you practice questions while you're working
and switch on the news while you're sweating andout or driving in the car (I know one contestant who
dreaming of thinner thighs. Make certain you areputs on her cell phone headset so she doesn't look like
watching a national news broadcast (ABC, CBS, NBC,she's talking to herself!). Maybe you and a friend get
CNN, Fox) as well as a local station. If you're reallytogether over lunch to practice questions. Keep copies
stuck for time, try listening to news radio while you're inof practice questions in your backpack and take them
the car. News radio regularly gives a full update on theout while you're waiting for your ride after gymnastics
hour and at 30 minutes past the hour.or voice class. Just make certain you actually have
2. Read the first page of your local Sundaytime scheduled for practicing those questions; you'll feel
newspaper. If your hometown newspaper is anythingmore prepared and score higher on your interview.
like mine, you could spend half the day reading theJust follow these four easy steps and you'll be on your
paper. Try just reading the first page while you'reway to a solid pageant interview score!