how to cope up wth the pressure of rejection in an inteview
@sushantinconvergys (15)
India
February 17, 2007 2:58am CST
after giving my heart n soul out for a job i always longed for,i finally returned home empty handed!!i went there wth great zeal,n also had my senior as my reference,after clearing 6 rounds,lastly i was told "extremely sorry". is this wat i waited for,since morning till evening.
m now half broken n hav lost confidence to appear for the next one.. hav you come across such a situation ever??plss share wth me ur experience of such kind n let me know how u overcame this situation!!
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@anonymili (3138)
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21 Feb 07
I can understand you must be feeling very disappointed, rejected and down after not getting the job. I work in HR and always make sure we let people down gently if they apply directly or give feedback to recruitment consultants if people apply through agents.
The thing to remember about ANY job interview is to try to learn from the experience. You have to understand that to have even got to interview stage you've done really well. We get literally 100s of applications as recruiters and we can't interview everyone, say for every 100 applications we will interview only those whose experience and education closely match our requirements. That might only be 10-20% of the applications or even less. So to have got to interview stage you had done better than say the 80-90% who didn't even get an interview. So you'd done something right so far. When it comes to the interview, there were possibly some areas in which you were not as strong as the other candidate who was offered the post. Try to remember what questions you were asked during the interview and think about how you'd answer those if asked again. If you felt uneasy during the interview when asked certain questions, try to focus on thinking of better answers for those questions. Remember, every interview is a chance to improve your interview skills. Also it never hurts to ask for feedback on your performance at interview. If the company is a decent one, they will at least give you honest reasons as to why you didn't succeed. Take on board the feedback and learn from it so next time you'll do a bit better. Hopefully you will get the next job you go for, but if not, just remember - think of what you can do to improve the next time.
Here are a few places where you can read more about coping with rejections:
http://www.mrs.umn.edu/services/career/job_search_skills/dealing.php
http://www.careers.stir.ac.uk/documents/rejection.pdf
Hope these are helpful to you :)
@marief2rnurse (2704)
• United States
17 Feb 07
I'm sorry to hear you had to go through 6 then fail at the last interview. Is that for a call center? Are you in the Philippines? If so, that would have to do with your grammar. Anyway, just try harder next time, practice and goodluck.
@sushantinconvergys (15)
• India
17 Feb 07
well thanks for ur goodwishes!! it actually was for a BPO,n m already a experience holder in this industry.i m located in india!!yet it wasnt for grammer,coz grammer was to b tested in prior rounds which i well cleared!!last was the HR round,n i really dont know wat went wrong!!hav u faced such a situation ever??