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Another botched interview

Robert124

I botched another interview today.

I had plenty of help and advice beforehand.  I was well prepared.  Even a mock interview at the job agency two days before with 'inside' questions.

But when it comes to the real thing. I freeze and forget what to say, don't read between the lines and don't understand what the questions really mean.

The people before me spent around 30min being interviewed.  My interview was over in under 15min.

Walking under a bus is preferable to going through another interview with strangers from a HR department.

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  • I'm sorry Robert that it went so wrong again. Wished I had something useful to suggest, but I don't really, so just sending you a hug, although I know it's not going to change anything about the situation... Somehow interviews seem designed to get the person that can sell themselves best, not the one that can do the job best. And every bad experience makes it only worse because you lose the last bit of self-confidence you may have had left. Makes me realise once more how lucky I've been with the official interview on Skype with two people I knew, one I had worked with before, and another two people that had been told already beforehand that I'm who they would like to get for the job after we had met for a chat earlier (which I didn't know was kind of an interview, so I was relaxed and myself). Skype is a brilliant thing, especially when the camera zoom doesn't work too well and you show up as a tiny picture on their screen. Guess it can be quite distracting but for me it distracted me from being nervous about the interview itself and I felt quite safe in that little picture...

    I wonder if there are other ways of getting a job than through interviews (guess mine was kind of another way actually).

    Wish you all the best of luck that it works out at some point and that some interviewer is more patient and manages to make you feel relaxed enough to appear like someone they want to work with.

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  • I'm sorry Robert that it went so wrong again. Wished I had something useful to suggest, but I don't really, so just sending you a hug, although I know it's not going to change anything about the situation... Somehow interviews seem designed to get the person that can sell themselves best, not the one that can do the job best. And every bad experience makes it only worse because you lose the last bit of self-confidence you may have had left. Makes me realise once more how lucky I've been with the official interview on Skype with two people I knew, one I had worked with before, and another two people that had been told already beforehand that I'm who they would like to get for the job after we had met for a chat earlier (which I didn't know was kind of an interview, so I was relaxed and myself). Skype is a brilliant thing, especially when the camera zoom doesn't work too well and you show up as a tiny picture on their screen. Guess it can be quite distracting but for me it distracted me from being nervous about the interview itself and I felt quite safe in that little picture...

    I wonder if there are other ways of getting a job than through interviews (guess mine was kind of another way actually).

    Wish you all the best of luck that it works out at some point and that some interviewer is more patient and manages to make you feel relaxed enough to appear like someone they want to work with.

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