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Got Stood Up in a Job Interview? Here are 3 Lessons

Got Stood Up in a Job Interview? Here are 3 Lessons

Getting stood up should be no big deal. People get stood up at dates, friend meet-ups, and even awards. A lot of people also get stood up in their final job interviews. While it is not at all uncommon and completely okay, we should try our best to avoid it.

When you fill out a job application and send in your resume, you feel like you’re the best fit for the job. Most people are very sure that they would get selected and ace the interviews. However, most of these people clear all the steps and get rejected at the very last step: the interview. If you’re someone who got stood up at the final job interview, we’re sure you had a lot to learn from that.

Let’s have a look at what lessons you can learn from getting stood up at a job interview and how you can improve.

Notice the Red Flags

This may sound very cliché as you obviously can’t ignore the red flag of getting stoop up. However, for most people, it is the only red flag that they notice. The truth is, you might be ignoring a lot of other warning signs that are becoming an obstacle in the way of your success.

Oftentimes, we think we are the perfect fit for a certain job position. While it may be true, a lot of people start to blindly believe it. In reality, you may not really think that and might have just convinced yourself to believe it. Being overconfident about getting the job can lead to a massive downfall. There are also a number of other such red flags that become part of our personality.

Get a Control of Whatever You Can

If you get stood up at a final job interview, how would you react? A lot of people freeze in such situations and find it a hard challenge to exit the situation sensibly. People start to panic, send impulsive texts, or even get angry when they are disappointed.

One lesson to learn is that you cannot change the circumstances. It is completely out of your control to reverse things. However, there is still something that you can control. It is the way you react to the circumstance that you’re in. Your response can make a significant difference in what happens next. Try not to let your emotions get the best of you and understand that the job might just not be the one for you.

Look at the Good Side Of The Job Experience

You may have already experienced and know that every experience comes with lessons and a chance for betterment. While you may feel overwhelming emotions about the rejection, the experience may have taught you something valuable that will stay with you your entire life. Look for it, and you will find the value in your experience.

You will realize that when you look at the experience sometime later, it will only bring you gratitude. You might have learned big lessons like not taking the job search process as seriously, or you may have found out that you just dodged a bullet when you lost the opportunity. We think you may have gained more than you lost.

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Interview Mistakes & What to Say Instead

6 Phone Interview Mistakes & What to Say Instead

Phone interviews can be stressful. They can feel like do-or-die moments that decide whether you get your dream job or live in poverty. In short, it is important you get them right.

So here are a few ways to develop your interviewing skills, from someone who does interviews all the time.

1.  Be More Specific Than Honest

You probably want to know up front: Do you have to be honest during an interview? The answer isn’t easy to swallow, but the truth is no. As long as you can’t get caught, enhance the truth.

But that does not mean lie. It’s illegal to lie during an interview. What you should do instead is take your normal answers and spice them up with details that will make you stand out.

2.  Never Show Fear To The Recruiter

Interviewers are fully aware of how scary interviews are. This makes them perfectly environments in which to evaluate a candidate’s ability to act under pressure.

Hesitation is fine. It can make you seem thoughtful, measured, and patient. But fear is unacceptable. If the recruiter gets the impression you are rushing through an answer, babbling nervously, or cracking under the pressure of having to answer a question, they will notice.

3.  Still, Take Your Time

Many people imagine fear to only manifest as reluctance or the petrification of panic. But more often people who are afraid express this by being jittery, hurried, or over-eager.

If you are asked a question and you draw a blank on the answer, do not panic. Don’t stall for time, ask for it. It takes a lot of courage to ask for time to think of an answer, and your recruiter will appreciate that you are communicating a need to them in a calm, collected manner.

4.  Respond to Red Flags

This is one of the hardest pieces of advice to follow if you have been out of a job for a long time. As much as it sucks to hear, there are some jobs you are better off not getting.

Don’t be afraid to walk out or hang up on an interview if you get the impression a workplace is abusive or incompetently run. Places like that will leave you out to dry without a reference eventually, so it’s better to distance yourself sooner than later.

5.  Remember The Recruiter’s Name

This is an uncommon bit of humanity to exhibit in an interview, but if you remember your recruiter’s name and show that you remember their name, they are far more likely to remember you than if you didn’t.

6.  Don’t be Right, be Human

It’s natural to go into an interview thinking of the recruiter as an emotionless robot who is looking for a candidate that is ideal on paper.

That is the job of the robot that scans resumes for keywords. Indeed, every step of the job process up until the interview lacks humanity. But once you’re at the interview it behooves you to represent yourself not as the best employee, but the best person you can be.

Good luck in the job market. Now more than ever, you’ll need it.