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I failed at my job interview today. :crying2:
My interviewer said "You lack energy, and your voice was always monotone. Come back here in two~three months"
Waaaaa :crying2:
*wipes tears*
I'm done crying now. I need practice. Well at least my grammar and diction were correct, unlike the guy that had an interview with me. He had a problem with his F's and P's and his B's and V's.
Have you ever been rejected?
Does this motivate you even further?
I have never been rejected, I'm a winner.
What kind of job was it?
As for jobs goes.. actually, no I've never been rejected for any of the jobs I've applied for. I don't know if it's just pure luck, or if I'm just naturally good at job interviews or something?
Anyway, as for you. Take this as a learning experience and go apply for another job. Make sure to correct what you did wrong, etc. etc. I think that's the best thing you can do.. y'know, moving on and trying to learn something from what happened.
Practice makes perfect.
Though the interviewer sounds like a dick, frankly, and not really someone I'd want to work for.
I've never been actually rejected at a job interview. I've been not called up about jobs before though, so I guess that is rejection. But I've got everyone job I've ever had an interview for.
The biggest rejection I've ever gotten was being rejected from NYU, after working years and years to get into that school. lol being unrealistic and thinking I could get into a near ivy league dream school and still being bitter about it lolololol.
I've had 5 jobs, but only two where I had to go through an interview. They were both desperate so I was pretty much hired before I got into the room. :p Didn't really matter what I had to say, I think.
I've been rejected from one job but not during the interview stage. My resume (don't feel like the accents xD) just wasn't as strong as those of the other applicants. I took it a lot harder than I thought I would, probably because no one had ever just said "no" to me before.
I've never really had a problem in interviews. I've had plenty of problems getting asked in for an interview, though.
it's kind of stupid that they'd tell you that about your voice. Sometimes it's pretty hard to not be monotone. I'm monotone as crap most of the time
I had a few jobs not hire me, but it was the "We're not ever calling you back" kind of rejection.
I used to do voice acting on a site a while ago and auditioned for all these fan made projects. One time I got an email back about my auditions with the guy telling me "Listen, you suck at talking, I can't understand you and your accent (I have a slight speech impediment not an accent >.<) is terrible. You'll never get a (non-paying and fan done for fun, mind you) role in anything on this site". I had to laugh at the irony because I was involved in several projects at the time and the guy thought my unique sounding voice wouldn't land me a role ever, when in fact it did many times. XD
Yes and yes. I've probably been rejected more times than I'd care to remember. You cannot be goal oriented when it comes to things like job interview and picking up guys and girls -- you'll just get depressed by the batting average and it will spiral into a series of negative thoughts.
I've only had two interviews before-- one for a job and one for a scholarship-- and I got both, so i guess I know what to say to people and how to say it.
Do you have some sort of voice chat program? (skype, y!m whatever) You could get some people here to practice being dynamic with you.
I've got every job I've interviewed for, maybe thats just out of pure luck though! :jess:
Where do you live that they actually tell you how you did on the interview? >>
Anyways I usually end up doing ok on interviews even though I'm terrified of talking to people, one time I got interviewed by 2 people at once and I knew I was bombing the interview so I tried to play it as cool as possible which probably didn't help the interview process at all.
I've gotten rejections from a few law schools this year :3
Never gotten rejected after an interview before. Don't think I've gotten rejected with guys either, but that's because I rarely ever made the first move.
For interviews, I think you just gotta smile a lot and act friendly. ^_^
I've been rejected many times.
I've also visted one of my friends at his work place and ended up stealing his job. Good times.
I work for my dad, he can't reject me :D
I've gotten rejected before. But that just spurs me on to be better, do better.
I get interviewed all the time, by clients. And it's been a little difficult to sort of "find" myself. I started off being really really polite and professional and not getting jobs. Then I started being more like myself. A little sarcastic, casual, etc, and I started booking jobs. :p I think most people can see right through that Professionalism. I think the same can be said about all areas of life.
gets me pissed off by the waste of my time.
Oh yeeaahhh.. I have no problems with my interviews, it's just GETTING that interview that I have a problem with. Goodness gracias.. goodness gracias.. brand me with a loser stamp and call me Slappy, but I can't even get one. I've been trying for a few weeks and I got maybe.. errr.. 7-10 applications circulating.
Not getting anything back from anyone is even worse I would think.. kinda like.. 'ZOMG U PHAIL AT LYKE' ehem.. as some of you with a keen sense of observation may notice, I am frustrated.
I've never had an interview, so I've never been rejected. but damn, it ain't half hard to find a place that takes on under 18s these days. :(
i work at CeX now, the interview was interesting to say the least, i had a sore throat and a bad cough...that and i mumble. i somehow got the job still :D
I've been rejected from 99% of the jobs I applied for when I was between the age of 17 and 20. Usually because I use to have a bad studder, which I don't have now.
I applied for 20 jobs a week and would get an interview maybe once a month or less. I have a job now, years later, but still it knocked a lot of confidence out of me when I was younger because it got so bad and made the studdering worse.
I decided I would never ever work in a bar again after my last job, I hate bar work and keep going into it, theyre one of the only employer types that seem to be willing to employ me, shops dont like my lack of maths and call centres dont like my accent because they are trying to push a "english people calling call centers in england operated by english people", and that my accent would make the birds on the other end of the line wet themselves.
Im unemployed and homeless. Im stealing someones wifi at the mo.
Wal-Mart never rejects anyone ever. But the whole place is bat
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Originally Posted by Miriel
I've gotten rejected before. But that just spurs me on to be better, do better.
I get interviewed all the time, by clients. And it's been a little difficult to sort of "find" myself. I started off being really really polite and professional and not getting jobs. Then I started being more like myself. A little sarcastic, casual, etc, and I started booking jobs. :p I think most people can see right through that Professionalism
Uh... I hope that isn't true, because I am just naturally polite around anyone I don't know. Actually, I am even ultra polite around people I know unless they are around me about 12/7. At which point I am bound to become impolite at some point.
Of course I may be misunderstanding exactly what you meant by polite/professional there.
I have thrown out more applications than I can count. And I have had at least 4 interviews this year(I don't really keep count, if it doesn't land me a job it isn't important unless I learned something from it). So far I have been rejected by UPS twice. Once due to distance and the other time the recruiter didn't believe I was physically capable of the work(I look like I weigh about 140 or 130 lbs and stand no more than five-foot six at the very most in thick soled boots). It ended up being fairly pointless to convince him otherwise. He wouldn't even believe me when I told him I weighed 165(which at the time was a low-ball figure for my weight, I could have been as high as 175'ish at that time).
I got rejected from two computer positions. One was because I, according to my mom, foolishly noted that when I was younger I suffered greatly from a fear of heights but that I now had it conquered. The job would require me to handle wireless and satellite type installations as well as to do maintenance on wireless towers in the area(also normal pc tech stuff, but the acrophobia wouldn't have affected that). They were already planing on training with the installations; regardless of experience(thus the fact that I lacked a previous employer in that regards didn't matter. I easily passed a knowledge test related to the field). However, they were worried that the acrophobia type fear would re-emerge since the recruiter had apparently never heard of someone 'beating' it. *shrug* whatever. I don't like crawling through peoples attics anyways though I would for money. The second interview was for a job position that was mis-worded in the paper. It sounded like an entry level job and asked for no more than a HS diploma. However, it turned out that they actually wanted a very high level webprogramming/database/security expert. Was out of my ballpark. We parted on fairly good terms despite my being late due to the fact that construction blocked all conventional roads to the place(I in the end went offroad through the construction zone to get there, dang place only had one way in from the direction I was coming from and that was a little itty bitty backroad that not even most people living there knew about).
Oh yes, and my first interview was one my dad manage to get me. But dad had misunderstood what they were looking for. He thought it was a basic programing position, but they wanted an accountant with a programming background(I didn't have the accounting experience needed). Once again parted on good terms.
Oh, and Ubel is wrong. Wallmart rejected my mother's application :D. She couldn't get the interview computer they had her use to work right. She is about 180% computer illiterate. All she wanted was a stocking job or some such :p(she doesn't like computers, wishes they were never invented and thus won't take a job that involves them to start with).
kinda direct huh? kill him then :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Randgris
anyway, i haven't been rejected much. can't remember right now, i'm really sleepy.
Oh, you poor, poor thing. Here, have a cookie :cookie:
Thank you guys for cheering me up. It wasn;t really a big deal. Although I do regret getting all tensed while talking. And its a 'she' that interviewed me, not a he. The thing that was going through my mind after that was 'there's like 5 more call center agencies I could apply to, I don't need to fret' or anything like that.
Well if it was a sales or customer-facing or PR type job you were going for, then that might have been a reasonable reason :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Randgris
Nope, wouldn't know what that's like.