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Strategies for Navigating Job Interviews After Facing Setbacks:
- Stay Authentic: Be yourself and avoid putting on a facade to please others.
- Stay Positive: Focus on the opportunities ahead, rather than past rejections.
- Prepare Effectively: Research the company, practice common interview questions, and be ready to discuss your experiences.
- Seek Feedback: Use previous rejections as opportunities to learn and improve for future interviews.
Wow this hit home hard. Like you said, I am just so over the “dog and pony show” as it makes zero difference. I stopped writing any sort of thank you notes to interviewees, don’t reach out to the recruiter begging for updates, etc. If they really want me they know where to find me and if they don’t hire me based on the fact I didn’t do all that archaic fake ass nonsense, so be it.
You’re getting interviews? I can’t even get those lol
I have fun with them.
I have the privilege of already being employed, so there isnt anything to lose.
Were I in a different position, I would probably bend over backwards to appease them.
I was once on an interview panel for a backfill and the unanimously voted to hire the guy who seemed like a slacker in the interview. We just didn’t want anyone to rock the boat. We didn’t communicate with each other or coordinate this, it was just an unspoken fact. And things worked out great, he didn’t Rock the boat.Ā
The moral of the story is that this could work out for you, you might have to do a lot of interviews though. Also my story took place during the great resignation so there’s also that…
I find the secret is to drink just the right amount of whisky beforehand
Yup… I’ve had my fair share of extreme disappointments so I started getting more and more mentally exhausted from preparing and stressing.
The better I perform and put my effort into it the worse it became for my mental after the rejection.
Like some of the rejections I’ve received are very questionable… And the interview processes are always very questionable to say the least.
10 interviews and there were 10 different types of questions and ways of testing my skills.
I am preparing for X and I’m being asked of Y and tested on Z.
So questionable to the point that for a junior level job I was asked to make a code review in under 40 minutes just for the interviewers to realize “Wait. That’s not supposed to be the way we interview him”.
Yes. I am absolutely just going to the motion to this point. I had a phone interview on Monday and I completely phoned it in. She asked me twice if I had any questions at the end of the interview. I know this has become a make or break on getting a face-to-face interview, but I’m so jaded at this point
Same! It is so deflating to spend time and energy to be that stand out candidate only to get rejected anyways. For me, I think its because the dog and pony show is forced and not coming off as genuine. Iāll bust my ass for a job but I am not that over the top energy #1 fan type of person.
Interviews these days are total bullshit and just end up wasting the jobseekers time. I got so tired of the bullshit and just created my own job as a freelancer.
Doing this would be avoiding the unemployment gap question and if you learn additional skills that can potentially give you an edge and your not blowing smoke up the interviewers ass.
Most times the yearly pay for jobs these days aren’t even worth it for the amount of work you would be doing.
Yup. The interviews that I was spending hours preparing for ended the same way as ones I barely did any prep for – NO OFFER.
I have been interviewing nonstop since February and at this point Iām just tired of the whole process which has been phone interviews, video interviews, in person interviews, assessments, writing samples, and case studies. Not sure when this 4+ step hiring process became the norm, but it is brutal.