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Job Interviews - a very public torture

mrs.snooks

Just recovering from having a job interview. And recovering is the word! 

As you may know I already have a job but I saw an ad for soemthing I was really interetsed in. I spend a day cramming interview skills and I wasn't prepared enough even if I were not autistic.

Now I am trying to stay positive as I at least did have something to say.... but it was such a trainwreck of an interview and now I'm here with insomnia because I keep relieving how awful it was. I am going through all my responses and just thinking OMG why on earth did I say that. I know there's something about being yourself.... but what was I thinking.

It's not so much about not getting the job... as there are other reasons not to accept the role even if they offered it to me. It is the fact that it feels like a very public humiliation! I'm just hoping that everyone on the interview panel is also autistic and didn't notice about how badly my repsonses were. But I don't think that is how managment tends to be.

Has anyone used the NAS support for interview skills?

I'm just hoping that someone on the forum can relate and tell me that it can just be how it is. I know that the adbvice is often to get work through other techniques such as through being known for a good worker. And I guess this is how I have managed to get to being in work. But I just feel awful inside.

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  • The only formal interviews I ever had were to get into university. I was lucky that I got away with being myself for those. It was all academic, so basically about my special interest which is something I can talk for ages about (also there were pictures and bits of paper to look at and draw on so I didn't have to actually look at the people I was talking to...). But I think I would have a much harder time at more classical interviews ... I just hope that in future interviews people can accept me for who I am... if they cannot see past that in the interview then I think I would worry that working for them would not be right for me.

    Sorry, I also have no advice. 

  • in reply to Ann :)

    Oh and actually, I did have another interview with a huge panel which was a bit of a fiasco, but I laugh about that one now. When asked about whether I was interested in xxx topic I replied that "I had never thought about xxx topic..." and turns out the person I said that to was the head of the department studying that topic... . Then I think I made an inappropriate joke about what I had just said... 

    As you can imagine, I did not get offered that position... 

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  • in reply to Ann :)

    Oh and actually, I did have another interview with a huge panel which was a bit of a fiasco, but I laugh about that one now. When asked about whether I was interested in xxx topic I replied that "I had never thought about xxx topic..." and turns out the person I said that to was the head of the department studying that topic... . Then I think I made an inappropriate joke about what I had just said... 

    As you can imagine, I did not get offered that position... 

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