My crappy phone interview

The more I think about it, the more I am bothered by today’s poor phone interview. I figured that once I let a few hours pass and realized that there is nothing else I could do, that I’d let that experience go to the back of my mind and take it as a learning experience. But it’s not happening. I keep getting more and more upset with myself.

Why is that? Mostly because I know how well I could have done. I was ready to answer so many questions that I just knew were going to come up such as “why did you apply for this position?” and “why should we hire you over the others?”. Instead none of those questions were asked. They were very clear, straight to the point, waste-no-time, questions, which totally threw me off balance since I figured that there would be a small warm up period with some light chit-chat. I don’t blame them though, I’ve conducted interviews many times before and it’s very time consuming and you just want to know if the person you are talking to is qualified or not.

So while I still wish and hope that I’ll hear back from them inviting me to a face-to-face interview, I have no one but myself for not truly being my calmed self during the conversation.

If there is a silver-lining to this story, it is that it did not happen on my birthday.

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