Feeling a bit crap after an interview - need cheering up

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I had a job interview yesterday for an internal vacancy which I was really excited about. I'd been feeling quietly optimistic about my chances because the role would suit me down to the ground, I had lots of relevant experience and I'd thought of some examples I could talk about. I've been unhappy where I am for a long while and I admit I'd been having thoughts like "This time tomorrow I could be moving on".

I probably built it up too much, because I ended up getting horribly nervous and just... fucking the whole thing up. I did so badly it was almost comical, only I'm definitely not finding it funny now. I've got to adjust my mindset again to staying where I am and continuing to look for other things, and I just feel so down about it. I'm so angry with myself!

I don't know what I want from this, just a whinge really, but other people's tales of messing up an interview but then going on to ace another one might make me feel better!

How strange, I was on the interview panel yesterday for a job which was internal applicants only and one applicant was so nervous she could hardly string a sentence together for the first couple of questions.

If this was you, you were lovely, your confidence came back later on in the interview and you gave some really good answers, one of which was the best answer we had all day. I hope you took on board the feedback when you were rung afterwards because it will really help you in future applications and interviews.

I had two interviews this week. In the first one, I got so flustered in a clinical scenario that I probably killed the patient! It was embarrassing for my level of experience. I spent the rest of the day searching for bad interview stories on Reddit to make myself feel better. And “why am I so bad at interview” type queries.

Then I had an interview yesterday and I smashed it! And was offered the role. The questions were completely different, which helped. And although I decided not to spend so much time preparing for the second one, I had learned a lot from the previous bad experience.

Unfortunately that wasn't me! I haven't had the feedback yet, but I hope when it comes that the interviewers are as kind about it as you obviously have been.

That's great, well done! I do wonder if I "over-prepared" somehow and wasn't as good at thinking on my feet as a result. I haven't started applying for other stuff yet, going to give myself a weekend of retail therapy and get back on it on Monday.