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job interview today

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Lovestonap · 21/11/2018 19:30

It went horribly! I really wanted this job and I basically came across like quite the ignoramus. I keep having shit answer flashbacks. I haven't heard yet but I won't have got it and I'm so disappointed because I actually think I'd be bloody good at it.

The part where you talk about yourself and your experience went ok (even there I'm having some cringe moments), but the exercise/role play element just was awful. In the end I think they brought it to a close sooner than planned as I was clearly so clueless.

I keep trying to talk myself down by telling myself if it's not meant to be it's not meant to be and the universe has other plans etc, but it's not working.

Anyone else had really awful job interviews that still make them cringe now, or does the brain forget quite quickly?!

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FaceLikeAPairOfTits · 21/11/2018 19:42

Oh yes, I get totally sucked in if the interviewers are nice and believe I’m completely smashing it, then the true horror emerges in a series of flashbacks once the adrenalin has subsided. Blush

Fradishes · 21/11/2018 19:46

Argh sympathies - sure it was much better than you think! In answer to your question yes just about every job interview I've ever had makes me cringe. The last one I had - in another city, was so paranoid about trains etc I was there 3 hours early. So plenty of time for coffee and preparation. I walked to the building using phone satnav, according to the postcode on email, with about twenty minutes to spare - only to find I was in completely the wrong place and I needed to be about 1.5 miles away! No taxis, I ran, my phone battery ran out and I didn't know where I was going! Turned up sweaty, late - did not get the job!

Lovestonap · 21/11/2018 20:08

bless you, no it was not better. Each flashback reminding me of further inanities...
My OH is trying to be positive, but the last time I had a terrible interview, I failed to get that job too - so my radar isn't totally off.

Oh well, if I gave them something to laugh at after I left at least I brightened their day....

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Lovestonap · 21/11/2018 20:11

I get that the point of the film Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind is that our most painful memories can also be our most precious - but if I had the option of removing this morning from my memory I think I could quite happily live without it!

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