What would you do if your dream job interview did not go well?

[MoRaw]

Had an interview for a really good job yesterday. Did not do as well as I would have liked to. So feeling disappointed and fearful that I won't be progressed to the next stage. I am feeling very anxious and cannot relax. I will know the outcome late next week but I simply cannot relax and enjoy my days. It is now constantly on my mind. I am tempted to call up the recruiters and ask them to tell me what they thought of my performance but I know that would be a bad move.

What would you do to put this behind you?

Move on! But be positive. Many of us will have had the same experiences and the opposite happened. I thought I had had a bad interview and got the job. As long as you get/got feed back about the interview and can take the positive from it then you should look towards the next step.
It's obvious you really wanted it so could your enthusiasm have shone through perhaps, despite you feeling it didn't go too well? I still believe that that it's where your face fits and even if you didn't feel things went as planned, you could still get it!
Good luck!

Thanks. I wish I could adopt an "I don't care attitude" to this. I never handle waiting well. I want to turn back the time ...

It is all pointless I know. I have no choice but to wait. In the meantime, the next few days will be spent in anxiety. I wish I could control my emotion towards this better.

I had this. I didn't get the job. I decided that it wasn't the right thing for me at this time. I was gutted though, as I know I would have been amazing at it.

Fast forward 2 years and actually, it would not have been the right choice as I now have a super job with school time hours and training opportunities etc.

Sometimes, we just have to accept that things are out I our control. I also like to think that the person that they did take on is not as good as I would have been

You don't know what's around the corner..... (Good luck though, I hate interviews!)

all you can do is be patient - and try not to worry about the outcome. what will be, will be. and no amount of worrying will change the decision.

I wouldn't ring them at all

You might have wowed them and they were keeping their poker faces. Don't despair!

I once interviewed for what I thought was a dream job and one of the interviewers absolutely took against me for some reason. I'd just come back from doing a fellowship abroad and he snorted about the research project I'd done and how I hadn't been qualified to do it. Not directly related to the job at hand but okay...

I came home and wrote the usual thank you notes. In my note to Mr. Grump I said I appreciated his interest in [area of research] and hoped we could chat about it more.

They said they'd contact me when they made a decision. It's been about 13 years now so I probably didn't make the short list.

Of course looking back on it now I realise that would have been an AWFUL job and I'm damned lucky I didn't end up there.

Onwards and upwards OP!!!!

Just an update. It turns out that I did well enough to be called for the final stage interview. This happened today. Felt overall that I gave it a good stab. However, at points, a couple of the interviewers looked tired and uninterested. I now think that perhaps there were better candidates earlier in the day and they were just going through the motions. I want to remain positive but can't help think this is a bad sign. I think I may have been the 4th or 5th candidate that was interviewed and they probably had another 2 to go.

I am glad it's over. It has taken a lot out of me. Already feel disappointed though I live in hope.

Can you tell when an interview has gone well and you have gotten the job? Is it a feeling you get? What is a good predictor?

I always come out of an interview feeling quite positive but then if I haven't heard back within a few days I realise it's a no and then just move on to the next. Treat each interview as experience for the next. My interview for my current job didn't go great as I didn't understand a question and couldn't even answer it after the interviewer expanded on the Q. I left feeling quite stupid, and that I was punching above my weight. Though In the end I got the job! although was second choice