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This was my exact experience. But I scheduled so many interviews I didn't have time to dwell. Which is great, because I am good at dwelling. I bombed many inter

This was my exact experience. But I scheduled so many interviews I didn't have time to dwell. Which is great, because I am good at dwelling. I bombed many interviews in an embarrassing fashion. After about 10 or so, I started to improve. And as the questions on each successive interview began to rhyme with previous ones, I got faster and better. You know your comfort zone best, but just as a data point, consider whether scheduling interviews like its your job (or your second job) would help. And again just anecdote, but I think if I'd interviews with less than 10 companies, I probably would have convinced myself I was stupid. Instead I went from 10+ straight rejections to multiple offers and a sizable salary bump.

politician 4y ago
The tragic part of the inane way that we interview candidates is that if the new job works out, interview hacking skills begin to decay immediately. After a few years, interview skills for the next job search will begin in roughly the same place.
hisnameisjimmy 4y ago
I did this same thing at one point. > But I scheduled so many interviews I didn't have time to dwell If you are sensitive to failure, a trick to overcoming it is to overwhelm your ability to dwell through sheer volume of experiences. Usually the anticipation of the next experience makes dwelling on the last one difficult to impossible. This works for dating, interviewing, presenting, and probably myriad other things that I haven't had to get better at. Does this make it so your body thrums with cortisol nearly 24/7? Yes! But do you improve quickly? Also yes! How long do you want to spend getting better? There's both a time cost and emotional cost to improving slowly. Conversely, improving quickly is exciting and motivating. I went through period where I was not only bad at interviewing, but so nervous that I couldn't control my palms sweating so profusely that it was embarrassing to shake hands with my interviewer (and probably gross for them!). Once I realized I had to go for volume to get over my nerves, things changed dramatically for the better. Try it!

politician 4y ago

The tragic part of the inane way that we interview candidates is that if the new job works out, interview hacking skills begin to decay immediately. After a few years, interview skills for the next job search will begin in roughly the same place.

hisnameisjimmy 4y ago

I did this same thing at one point. > But I scheduled so many interviews I didn't have time to dwell If you are sensitive to failure, a trick to overcoming it is to overwhelm your ability to dwell through sheer volume of experiences. Usually the anticipation of the next experience makes dwelling on the last one difficult to impossible. This works for dating, interviewing, presenting, and probably myriad other things that I haven't had to get better at. Does this make it so your body thrums with cortisol nearly 24/7? Yes! But do you improve quickly? Also yes! How long do you want to spend getting better? There's both a time cost and emotional cost to improving slowly. Conversely, improving quickly is exciting and motivating. I went through period where I was not only bad at interviewing, but so nervous that I couldn't control my palms sweating so profusely that it was embarrassing to shake hands with my interviewer (and probably gross for them!). Once I realized I had to go for volume to get over my nerves, things changed dramatically for the better. Try it!