Can anyone explain this to me?
I applied for 2 signaller jobs and attended interviews for both, a couple of weeks ago. I was asked the usual 8 core competency questions, which I answered exactly the same in both interviews.
I thought interview 1 actually went better than interview 2, as I thought there were too many "erms and ahs" in my answers.
Anyway, imagine my surprise when I was offered the job for interview 2 and not for interview 1! Again, I gave exactly the same answers for both interviews!
Of course I am grateful for the job offer, but the issue is that job 1 is in a much more convenient location to me that job 2.
So I need to understand, if the hiring managers use exactly the same criteria for assessing the interviews, how could this happen?
Now I know that many people will state the obvious- that someone gave better answers than me. To that, I would have to say that would not have happened- I know my answers were excellent and very well thought out (I am doubly sure of this now as I have been offered job 2). I think we can all agree we know after an interview, whether it went well or not. In this case, I was absolutely convinced I had got job 1!
Any thoughts on this? Could it just have been that my face did not fit? I did note that my line manager/ interviewer, looked old enough to be my son! Could that have been a factor?
I feel quite annoyed, yet happy- a really weird feeling! :-?
I applied for 2 signaller jobs and attended interviews for both, a couple of weeks ago. I was asked the usual 8 core competency questions, which I answered exactly the same in both interviews.
I thought interview 1 actually went better than interview 2, as I thought there were too many "erms and ahs" in my answers.
Anyway, imagine my surprise when I was offered the job for interview 2 and not for interview 1! Again, I gave exactly the same answers for both interviews!
Of course I am grateful for the job offer, but the issue is that job 1 is in a much more convenient location to me that job 2.
So I need to understand, if the hiring managers use exactly the same criteria for assessing the interviews, how could this happen?
Now I know that many people will state the obvious- that someone gave better answers than me. To that, I would have to say that would not have happened- I know my answers were excellent and very well thought out (I am doubly sure of this now as I have been offered job 2). I think we can all agree we know after an interview, whether it went well or not. In this case, I was absolutely convinced I had got job 1!
Any thoughts on this? Could it just have been that my face did not fit? I did note that my line manager/ interviewer, looked old enough to be my son! Could that have been a factor?
I feel quite annoyed, yet happy- a really weird feeling! :-?