Get the Interview But not the Job..Hi all, I am recently entering the job market again.. I get the interview but then not the job. There was a point where I would send out my resume and just get the letter back saying Sorry!! .. Now, I seem to have fixed my resume, I get the interview but not the job. I have been out of the loop for a couple of years and any intervewing techniques you can send my way would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
If up to now you had a problem with your resume, it appears that now it is something you are doing (or aren't doing) during the interview. This can be fixed, fortunately: You can find a lot more on the very same site. Good luck! Section of post does not conform with Monster TOU
I myself was in the same situation and fortunately realized something was wrong right away. What I did was come up with general questions of what might be asked and then more specific questions pertaining to the job I was applying for. I also made sure there was always eye contact, smiling, small-talk before / after and no matter what the question was, make sure the last thing I said was positive. Essentially, I want the interviewer to know that I am confident in my abilities and would work well with other employees. Also, after every interview, I would reflect and see where I could of said something better. Look for somewhere that you can do some mock interviews. Your local community college career center, the phone book under career counselor, or your unemployment office. Baring all that, have a good friend who will tell you the truth and who is experience in the corporate world do one with you. Video it if possible then watch it back. Tess
Thanks for your input..
kim, I just went thru that, with a microbiology job, the person that interviewed was great, I am a 48 Her staff had all been there a least five years and the girls that got hired with me had experience in a hospital (unit sec), now I had lil to none but was willing to learn, well same deal the young kid in technical support was 25 maybe, and again had been there a lil while, he was doing the same thing showing me up etc, not training me correctly, now in retrospect, I should have ignored all that and hung in there, but I did not, so here I am again looking for employment, and I too am having trouble with the interview process, my problem is focus during the interview, I tend to go off track, I hope since I now know this I can do better on the focus issue, what I needed is someone to practice mock interviews with, my husband gets upset so, he is no help, my Dad gets miffy and overbearing, looks like I am going to have to go to one of those one stop place's and let me tell you they are pretty well let's put it this way they are state worker's ( no offense to those state workers out there that do there ) and that is a whole other subject. My Point was you were lucky not to have gotten that job. I used to go home in tears every night and for $11.33 an hour and a hour drive into the city it just was not worth it. My issue lately is that I seem to not be up for the games of power hungry micro management, predatory kind that feed off of weak. Good luck stay in touch ladyshancia
KIM, I WENT THROUGH THE SAME THING BUT WHAT I WAS DOING WAS GOING TO THE SAME COMPANIES AND THAT WAS NOT WORKING FOR ME AND IT WAS GOING ON FOR TO LONG. SO I HAD TO SIT AND THINK OF WHAT WOULD GET ME IN THE DOOR AND I WENT ON INTERVIEWS BUT ALL OF THE COMPANIES I WENT TO WERE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING SPECIFIC. THEY WOULD ASK ME WERE THERE ANY QUESTIONS THAT I HAD. SO GOING TWO YEARS WITHOUT ANY SUCCESS, I WOULD ASK THESE COMPANIES, AND BE HONEST. ARE YOU THE PERSON FOR THEIR COMPANY?
Follow up with the person you interviewed with after you found out that you didn't get the job. I find that sending them an email asking for advise usually gets a response. Express that you were disappointed that you did not get the job, and was hoping that they might give you some insight on why you were not chosen. Is there anything you are doing or not doing during the interview process that you should work on. Who better to ask than the person who actually interviewed you. You'll be surprised how often you'll get candid advise this way. Thank Joe and others on your advice. I will approach your method Joe. I believe if you go to the source, you will get the input on what you may or may not be doing wrong. I believe networking also helps. With perservance I will get a position as I am a well rounded individual with many aspects. Thanks again.. As I say in my interviewing book, interviewing is highly subjective and complex. There are so many ways to mess up and a bizillion ways questions can be phrased. Now it's quite possible that the answer is simply that there's tremendous competiton. Or you're not as qualified as others. For example, my Brother-in-Law doesn't have a college degree, which is holding him back from managerial positions. He takes great interviews, but his lack of college is what's hurting him. So there are other factors that could be the reason. But if it's how you're coming across during interviews, then that's another story and something that you need to deal with. Perhaps going to a career center or the unemployment office to have somebody do a mock interview and evaluate you will be helpful. There are so many tips and tricks to interviewing, but I think you need some outsider looking at how you're coming across in an interview to see what's going on. | |
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