When you are not hired after an interview do you blame your self, or the potential employer? (applying, collecting)
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I thought it might be my references so I hired a company to check them and they were fine. I think it is mainly the market. Pharma had a layoff bonanza the past few years and now the market is flooded with scientists with more experience that will work as cheaply as me and they can write insanely specific job ads and actually get someone who they won't have to train.
I'm kind of surprised to read some of these responses. People are blaming themselves, implying they didn't try hard enough or they performed poorly during the interview. Are these really the cases? Or, is more like I described above and you didn't have exactly what they were looking for?
Also, can every failed interview be described as "their loss"? If you didn't have what they were looking for, it's their gain by passing you up and finding a better fit.
I'm a good worker, and I wouldn't apply for a job that I was incapable of doing.
Every employer I have had has been impressed with my work ethic and dedication to the job. Those who didn't take the opportunity to employ me simply missed out.
While I think it is a good idea to evaluate how you think you did on an interview, there doesn't have to be anyone to "blame". You can't control who else applies. If you happen to be going against more experienced or qualified people that isn't anyone's fault.
As someone who started looking a few months ago, I've had several close calls but nothing yet. My take is that you can't blame yourself. If you got the interview, they saw something in your resume and background they liked. That is a huge step to even get pass the hundreds of resume they weeded through. Beyond that it's totally subjective such as, how did you present yourself, did they misinterpret something you said, was your salary requirements too high, etc. So you can't blame yourself or the company.
If there are people like me in age and look and experience working in similar jobs in the company and I don't get hired after an interview then I blame myself as not being as effective as I could have been. But if I show up and the only people working there are cute 25 year old women and I as a 52 year old look out of place, I know anyway there is no way I could be hired because I would not fit in.
You never know what they are looking for, so how can you say you acted badly in an interview. If you think you made a bad impression you might try calling the company and change your style. But the next interviewer may have different preferences. The first one will reject you because you were too quiet but the next one because you are too loud.
My experience is that if me and a job are a good fit, the interview will go well (not to say I'll get it), and if it's not, it won't. I agree with the poster who said that there is no point of blaming anyone- if you didn't get the job, move on.
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