To ask you to cheer me up after a terrible interview

[guccigirl666]

Been preparing for this for 4 weeks now - trying to get onto a pgce. But the interview day went terribly. The interview itself was a disaster - I couldn't answer the most basic question "Why do you want to teach" my mind went blank and I waffled on about unrelated things for far too long. I missed basic points. I spent a long time putting together a big portfolio of work with references and analysis and reflection of placements and work experience and when asked to show them some work that I wanted them to see I just showed 1 project as I thought they could take the portfolio away to look over but they couldn't.

I wanted this so badly and I just know I haven't got on. I don't think I can bare another year working as an assistant in an area of education I don't want to be in. I feel utterly depressed, even watching the final twilight hasn't cheered me up tonight. Someone make me feel better please!

I had an interview last week, they called me that afternoon to tell me I'd not got the position. Don't beat about the bush eh!

Being serious though I felt bloody miserable and it was just a part time job, not something I really really wanted like you so you've every reason to be utterly pee'd off.

and unMN hugs till someone comes along with something funny and/or helpful to say :)

Don't be too hard on yourself, this has happened to everyone at some point. Can you contact them and say you know you weren't at you best and would really like to let them know a few more things, then say what you should have ideally said in the interview? That might show them how keen you are.

Could you apply for a different PGCE course at another institution, and get a second chance to do an interview?

ask for feedback and try again, I've met lots of teachers who didn't get in first attempt

in fact I am one!

Lol, the problem is the uni is a particularly hard one to get into but it's the only one I can get to practically (and I did my BA there so really wanted to get onto the course there specifically). My application will be passed onto my 2nd choice but I assume most of their places will be filled by now.

The thing is, if I had done my best and they'd rejected me I'd have found that easier to accept, it's the fact I didn't say the million things I know and have experience of when that's what they were really asking me for.

I will try to ask them to give me a chance to say what I wanted, but I just felt the whole process was quite seclusive and specific, and I didn't really have the chance to get my points across when I was actually there. Like they weren't interested in other valuable experiences that had brought me there because they were a bit different, which I'd hoped would have been a good thing.

Just going over and over it all in my head. This is the most prepared I have ever been for an interview but the worst I have performed, I just didn't 'gel' with the person interviewing me and felt uncomfortable. Dreading that rejection letter.

My worst ever job interview... It was some time ago, dh had been laid off, I was sahm, and we were desperate so applying for jobs all over the place. There were a couple about which I felt really positive (in amongst the "well, if I have to... jobs) but as I hadn't heard anything six weeks after closing date I chucked the job descriptions etc.

Of course, days later I was invited to interview, and I hadn't a fucking clue what the job involved. (This was pre-everything being on t'interweb, so I had no way to find out.)

I got lost en route to the interview venue and walked miles in shoes that made my feet bleed. When I finally got there, I was way too late for my interview time, but they were kind enough to see me anyway, but as I had no idea what the job was I didn't exactly impress.

It still rankles that actually I could have done that job really well, and enjoyed it.

Grr.