in my experience interviewing is a game where you have to display a good measure of self confidence (but again not too much of it); I guess that too much self e

in my experience interviewing is a game where you have to display a good measure of self confidence (but again not too much of it); I guess that too much self examination upon a failure here will work against you, as it will make you part with your remaining self confidence. The problem is that it is very hard to appear self confident if one is looking out hard for a job for more than two weeks; Any ideas on how to manage this particular problem? Interesting that most hiring processes do not give much weight to past working experience or good references - instead one is supposed to perform well on the detailed check list of the interviewer. What does that say about the company that is adopting such a hiring process vs one that doesn't ?