had a job interview. 2 large group exercises to assess team dynamics, then I interviewed for 2 different roles. Everyone there was nice, but:

  1. can’t stop feeling bad for the one interview that i definitely floundered. The first one seemed to go well but given how much i tripped over my words for the second one, it makes me think the first one went badly? Also got the sense

  2. I can’t trust people being nice to me. It makes it feel like a big prank is being played on me and my entire reality is simulated / organised for some reason.

its kind of tough to be in one hall surrounded by other candidates competing for the same positions as you. Man… But maybe that’s better and I just have no stamina for job interviews.

I need to apply for ~500 more jobs this summer, just in case, but it leaves me really drained.

  • PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    25 days ago

    If this is a situation you’ll be facing more often, can you plan something afterwards that’s completely unrelated and just good for yourself? Can be literally anything, a donut, a drink with a friend but you don’t talk about the interview, a bike ride, yoga in a park, a 3 hour gaming session. Something to push the interview completely out of your mind, because realistically it’s not that helpful to fret over how it went immediately afterwards.