Interviews happen because companies have to short list people suitable for their companies. So it is but obvious that some of the candidates interviewed will not make it in the very first interview they attend and there would be further interviews by other companies and finally one gets the job. It is very easy to get disheartened initially. When we see our friends getting the job and we getting rejected, it can be very painful. I have experienced it myself and I can empathize with those who do not make it initially. But to be pessimistic is not the right thing to do. Pessimism and negative thinking will ensure that you come across as an unsuitable candidate in the next interview and your chances further go down. Be optimistic till the end. Remember that if you have not got that job, something better is in store for you.
JK Rowling, the author of Harry Potter series was a single mother living on government grants to look after her family. Desperately poor, she went to ten publishers to publish her first Harry Potter novel, but all of them rejected the novel outright. It was the eleventh publisher who took the risk and that became a best seller. She wrote six more novels and all of them became best sellers and all of them have been made into movies and today is the richest author in the whole world.
Similarly, first seventeen of Abhishek Bachhan’s movies flopped at the box office and only the eighteenth became a hit. If he had given up earlier, he would not have had the chance of succeeding at all. His father Amitabh was rejected when he went for his first audition as being too tall and having a funny voice. That height and baritone voice are his specialities now and he has even patented it recently so that others do not mimic his voice and misuse it.
So never give up. Initial hurdles will come. Otherwise there was no need for an interview.
After every interview, write a journal and write what questions were asked and what your answers were. Discuss among your well wishers and experts and see if that answer could have been better. See where you lack and sharpen your skills for the next interview. Face it without any stress. Stress will make you forget what you know. Before the interview put on a smiling face for 15 minutes. If you cannot smile take a pen and bite it between your teeth and that position is similar to that of smile and your endocrine system will secrete dopamine – the feel happy chemicals and you will start to relax. Remember that creative thoughts come to your brain only when the brain is relaxed.
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