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[novapsyche]

Just got back from my interview.

When you don't know how it went, that's never a good sign.

This was the first interview I've been in where I was asked to spell "sulfuric," though.

Comments

[sarahmichigan.livejournal.com]

I don't know if that's necessarily a bad sign. I was totally surprised at being offered a job after an interview that I thought was just so-so. You never know. Good luck.

[simianpower.livejournal.com]

I feel much the same about interviews and exams: just do the best you can and let the result take care of itself. I never know whether I do well on either, and guessing just makes me stress for no purpose.

With interviews, if I'm myself and show what I'm capable of to best advantage, and they still don't want me, then I don't want them either. But I tend to interview my interviewers, too. Rather than just tell them why I'd be good for their company and how I'm the best at what I do and blahblahblah, I also ask why I should come to them instead of all the other companies out there. (Well, I don't put it in quite those terms, but...) Granted, it's a lot easier to do that when you already have a job, because then you're looking to move to something better rather than just pay the bills. Interviewing confidence and self-assurance tends to be much the same as sexual confidence and self-assurance: if you have none you're undesirable because if even YOU know something's wrong with you, why should anyone else want you, and yet too much is even more undesirable because you're just an arrogant jackass. It's a hard line to tread sometimes.