OK...
First off, this is not a "why in the hell did they not give me the job"? post.
It's a critical assesment of what might have swayed the decision.
So I went to the interview in 2013. Even the guy interviewing said my cv and answers to their questions was impressive. So a good start.
We get into the interview.
Nothing tricky. Except they did ask me about my journey to the interview that day....so i sprout off as much detail as i can.
Everything seems good. But you can never tell. The guy then talks about the tests on the next stage. What they are about, when i 'll probably go for them and i should have no problems with them. So you kind of get the impression I am at least coming back for the tests. Unless they say this to everyone regardless?
Presume nothing in an interview.
About 10 days later i simply get an email saying i was not successful.
I was shocked. Disappointed. A bit confused.
Then i tried to work out why. Why did it go from seeming a certain pass to a failure?
1) I got an email about 3 days before the interview with an attachment about uniforms. I thought it was strange but never paid any attention to it.
At the end of interview i was talking to another guy there and he said they sent the wrong file out with the email it should have been instructions on how to prepare for the interview. Then the question about my journey made more sense.
Did I come across as not being prepared? I did email explaining this right after but it was never even acknowledged...
2) One question i regret was "tell me why you have applied for this job" and i went on about how my business is failing and I need to do something else right away....before realizing I was making a mistake and kind of corrected it..was the damage done?
3) Whilst my application might have been good enough then....maybe they simply got better?
I do not want this to come across as an arrogant post about how I should have got to the next stage, etc...I did post after my rejection and got flamed to death on it by some.
It would have been nice to have known why my application was unsuccessful. But not many interviewees do this.
So what do you think? All of them? None of them? No idea?
I am going to apply one more time. Obviously it has to be better than the first time.
Thx
First off, this is not a "why in the hell did they not give me the job"? post.
It's a critical assesment of what might have swayed the decision.
So I went to the interview in 2013. Even the guy interviewing said my cv and answers to their questions was impressive. So a good start.
We get into the interview.
Nothing tricky. Except they did ask me about my journey to the interview that day....so i sprout off as much detail as i can.
Everything seems good. But you can never tell. The guy then talks about the tests on the next stage. What they are about, when i 'll probably go for them and i should have no problems with them. So you kind of get the impression I am at least coming back for the tests. Unless they say this to everyone regardless?
Presume nothing in an interview.
About 10 days later i simply get an email saying i was not successful.
I was shocked. Disappointed. A bit confused.
Then i tried to work out why. Why did it go from seeming a certain pass to a failure?
1) I got an email about 3 days before the interview with an attachment about uniforms. I thought it was strange but never paid any attention to it.
At the end of interview i was talking to another guy there and he said they sent the wrong file out with the email it should have been instructions on how to prepare for the interview. Then the question about my journey made more sense.
Did I come across as not being prepared? I did email explaining this right after but it was never even acknowledged...
2) One question i regret was "tell me why you have applied for this job" and i went on about how my business is failing and I need to do something else right away....before realizing I was making a mistake and kind of corrected it..was the damage done?
3) Whilst my application might have been good enough then....maybe they simply got better?
I do not want this to come across as an arrogant post about how I should have got to the next stage, etc...I did post after my rejection and got flamed to death on it by some.
It would have been nice to have known why my application was unsuccessful. But not many interviewees do this.
So what do you think? All of them? None of them? No idea?
I am going to apply one more time. Obviously it has to be better than the first time.
Thx
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