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Group interview

Mason

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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  • Thank you for your advice. I had the interview last week and I definitely wasn't relaxed unfortunately. I'd explained to my supervisor that I was very nervous about the group activity and she said she'd be there and wouldn't make me participate if I didn't want to. I felt a bit better about it then, then on the day she was ill and so didn't turn up and it was people I didn't know. The group activity really wasn't bad at all though, no where near as bad as advertised thankfully. But I was so nervous from the last minute changes and not having the person I expected taking my one on one interview which put me more on edge. On the first question in the one on one, I panicked, my mind went completely blank, couldn't even think how to speak and ended up in tears. Thankfully, he was nice about it and just moved onto the next question, I was alright from then onwards and we rolled back around to the first question at the end. It's not good to cry in an interview though is it. If I didn't already work there I wouldn't have a chance, but I'm hoping as they know I'm a hard worker, they'll look past it. Fingers crossed!

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  • Thank you for your advice. I had the interview last week and I definitely wasn't relaxed unfortunately. I'd explained to my supervisor that I was very nervous about the group activity and she said she'd be there and wouldn't make me participate if I didn't want to. I felt a bit better about it then, then on the day she was ill and so didn't turn up and it was people I didn't know. The group activity really wasn't bad at all though, no where near as bad as advertised thankfully. But I was so nervous from the last minute changes and not having the person I expected taking my one on one interview which put me more on edge. On the first question in the one on one, I panicked, my mind went completely blank, couldn't even think how to speak and ended up in tears. Thankfully, he was nice about it and just moved onto the next question, I was alright from then onwards and we rolled back around to the first question at the end. It's not good to cry in an interview though is it. If I didn't already work there I wouldn't have a chance, but I'm hoping as they know I'm a hard worker, they'll look past it. Fingers crossed!

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