Group interview

I have to re-apply for my own job this year, it's only a waitressing job too which is very annoying and I've been trying to psych myself up for the interview next week and just found out they've changed the format from individual interviews (which are bad enough) to 'group exercises'... Oh dear help!! Last time I was at a job (it was a freelance art job and was actually what I was wanting to do with my life) and they wanted to play 'get to know you' games, I was shaking all through the first game and could barely move and talk and when they started the second game I walked out the room and went back to my desk to carry on with work. I can't exactly do that in an interview. I even avoid apply for jobs that I know will group interview. I'm also self diagnosed so can't explain to them why it's so difficult. I can't even get myself to ring the woman back with my availability because I'm terrified of talking on the phone.

any advice on getting through a group interview? Has anyone been through one before? I don't even know what to expect! 

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  • Yes I've been working there for a year now, but the contracts were seasonal and ended at the end of October and I've been working there all winter too, I'm in today in fact, but we still all have to reapply to continue working there. It's really stupid. 

    Intenseworld - Thank you for your advice, I do tend to mimic people. It's the only way I get by and make friends, hopefully I'll be able to do that, sometime I just get so nervous I can't focus on those kinds of things. I don't like talking in groups, even when they go round the group saying there names I cant listen to anyone because I'm going over and over my own name, and when it gets to me I still get stage fright and forget lol. It's terrible I don't know how I'm going to do this, I'm terrified! 

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  • Yes I've been working there for a year now, but the contracts were seasonal and ended at the end of October and I've been working there all winter too, I'm in today in fact, but we still all have to reapply to continue working there. It's really stupid. 

    Intenseworld - Thank you for your advice, I do tend to mimic people. It's the only way I get by and make friends, hopefully I'll be able to do that, sometime I just get so nervous I can't focus on those kinds of things. I don't like talking in groups, even when they go round the group saying there names I cant listen to anyone because I'm going over and over my own name, and when it gets to me I still get stage fright and forget lol. It's terrible I don't know how I'm going to do this, I'm terrified! 

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