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So I am relatively still a young professional looking to gain my footing in a solid career. I am currently looking to shift my employment situation and thus I have interviews in the coming weeks. The first position I interviewed was this past week for a position.
Overall, I felt the interview went rather poorly for me. The position is temporary since the current employee was taking a leave for some time. The hiring manager was out of town and I was limited to speaking with a Senior HR rep and the incumbent. I spent most of my time with the Senior HR rep and I honestly thought it went awful. She seemed to give a frown on her face to some of my answers I gave which rattled my nerves a bit. She also delivered on some really tough follow-up to behavioral questions which I was not prepared for. Overall she let off some bad vibes that indicated she was not pleased with the delivery of the interview.
The part with the incumbent went fine and she really seemed to like me, but I feel since the HR Rep has to recommend me to the hiring manger for another interview, I feel as though I might be out of luck.
Granted anything can happen next week, but I have some more interviews coming up and I was wondering what advice seasoned professionals to give to younger professionals on rebounding from a bad interview, especially in terms of learning what one did wrong and how to correct them.
So I am relatively still a young professional looking to gain my footing in a solid career. I am currently looking to shift my employment situation and thus I have interviews in the coming weeks. The first position I interviewed was this past week for a position.
Overall, I felt the interview went rather poorly for me. The position is temporary since the current employee was taking a leave for some time. The hiring manager was out of town and I was limited to speaking with a Senior HR rep and the incumbent. I spent most of my time with the Senior HR rep and I honestly thought it went awful. She seemed to give a frown on her face to some of my answers I gave which rattled my nerves a bit. She also delivered on some really tough follow-up to behavioral questions which I was not prepared for. Overall she let off some bad vibes that indicated she was not pleased with the delivery of the interview.
The part with the incumbent went fine and she really seemed to like me, but I feel since the HR Rep has to recommend me to the hiring manger for another interview, I feel as though I might be out of luck.
Granted anything can happen next week, but I have some more interviews coming up and I was wondering what advice seasoned professionals to give to younger professionals on rebounding from a bad interview, especially in terms of learning what one did wrong and how to correct them.
This right here is one very big reason why I want to be in business for myself. I have interview anxiety and I really don't think it's fair for someone to judge you by how well you can do a job based on an interview. ANYBODY should know (read: interviewers) that interviews are a high stress situation and to sit there and pick someone apart at an interview is not right imo.
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