What To Do If You Don’t Get That Job

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Interviewing for jobs isn’t the nicest experience in the world and is often stressful. There are countless articles online about what to do and what not to do when preparing for, and attending, an interview.
But what’s the best course of action if you don’t get the job?

Here’s what you can do to turn a seemingly negative experience into a positive one that you can learn and prosper from.

Reflect
Take some time to go through the interview and make note of any obvious mistakes you may have made. It’s quite likely that you’ll know straight away when you’ve said the wrong thing or done something that could have damaged your chances, but sometimes it takes some reflection to spot an error.

It’s important to try and go through the process from the interviewer’s point of view. By seeing things form the other side of the interview table you may realise that assumptions you made were unfounded or things you may have said could have been misconstrued.

Were there any questions which you may have misunderstood?
Was there anything distracting you, either physically or mentally?
Did you say anything that could have cast doubt on you as a candidate?
There are a number of things that you definitely shouldn’t say or do during an interview. These include:

Arriving late
Criticising your past/current employer
Being argumentative
Being overly interested in sick leave and holiday policies
Not turning your phone off
Not researching the company
Try not to get too down about the rejection
Just because you didn’t get one job doesn’t mean that you’re destined to always fail. It’s often the case another candidate was successful for reasons out of your control and with multiple applicants interviewing for one bulgaria phone number resource vacancy, there will always be those that aren’t successful.

The deciding factor may have been that the successful applicant may have had slightly more experience in one of the ‘desirable’ requirements but were your equal in everything else.

Using the experience to improve your technique to do better next time turns the process into one which is positive and can be used for personal growth.