Feeling sorry for myself

buckeejit

buckeejit

buckeejit

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Been out of work for about 8 weeks as noted in other threads. I've received two job rejections this week and went for an assessment at a call centre this morning for outbound sales as I passed the telephone interview on Monday.

The assessment lasted about 1hr 30mins and I knew the most important thing would be the role play at the end. I walked out of the place knowing that I didn't do well on the role play because I didn't have enough experience which obviously came across, I've never done outbound sales.

Received a call earlier to say that I didn't sell myself enough at the role play. I'm kicking myself, would have been some money coming in but no chance now :(

Feeling really down, with every job rejection comes more and more lost confidence.

God knows how many jobs I've applied for over the past 8 weeks along with attending interviews and assessments. I just feel worthless :(

Sorry for the depressing thread :rolleyes:
 
Chin up, it's all a learning experience.

The feedback you get is invaluable and you should treat it as constructive criticism, which is never a bad thing!
 
The market can be tough, you need to soldier on. I have known over 250 applications by one person, before they got anything. Set yourself daily targets to achieve, like applications, places to network or research and learn from the feedback you get and build on that.
 
Role playing for an interview at a call centre.. Do they want you hassling people on the phone or be the next ****ing Robert de Niro? :rolleyes:

You dodged a bullet.
 
buckeejit said:
Feeling really down, with every job rejection comes more and more lost confidence.

God knows how many jobs I've applied for over the past 8 weeks along with attending interviews and assessments. I just feel worthless :(
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I know it feels demoralising to receive what feels like constant rejection, but in my experience it's essential to view each application as separate and distinct. Your failure or success in securing one job has no bearing on the result next application. That is, unless you allow it to affect your state of mind and thus your performance. You cannot directly control the outcome of any of the job applications. You can influence it through your actions during interviews etc, but it is not within your direct control. How you respond to the outcome, however, is entirely within your control. I would urge you to focus your attention on that instead.

Besides, it's not as though all the potential employers get together and share their list of rejected applications, after all.

Unless they do. In which case, you're screwed.
 
Your lucky you got feedback. quite often now people dont which is just wrong. As a Manager I always provide feedback so they can learn from it and be better next time. Tough times now though..good luck for 2013!
 
Yeah, there can be many reasons for not getting a particular job, 99% of which will be totally separate to any applicants.

For instance, internal applicant, Job withdrawn for business reasons, job never really existed etc..

Best to forget and move on.

Just keep plugging away.
 
buckeejit said:
First time I've received feedback which I suppose is a positive.

Thanks guys :)
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Its always good to get feedback, and it rarely happens. They told you what you already felt about how the interview went which shows your instincts were good.
Keep trying there will be light at the end of the tunnel.
 
Keep trying, at least you're getting more and more experience with interviews and that seems to be the clincher in many jobs nowadays.
 
Join the club. I have been out of work for almost 2 months now, too. Not qualify for the job is one thing, but the market has also been extremely quiet over the past few months.

Now days I do nothing but sit in my room, looking at the Sun come up and go down, while I send out job applications and checking my phone/e-mail inbox over and over again.

This whole thing is a soul eating experience I tell ya. You start to wonder what if no one ever want to hire you or you are wasting your life away 1 minute at a time.

Especially with Christmas coming up you know it's going to be quiet for at least another 3 weeks.

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Keep your chin up mate, enjoy Christmas as much as you can and get back to it next year.

I have the luxury of searching for a new job whilst i'm employed and paid very well and knowing if i'm not successful ill still have this job to fall back on.
 
it really is a demoralizing experience. i had a few months last year out of work.

still not out of the woods yet, i've only got a job one day a week, the rest is either sat doing nothing, or helping out my dad with his work.

Ever thought about occupying your spare time with learning something new? just recently i've been spending a lot of time on photoshop, getting to know how to use it. maybe one day it might lead to a job, i dont know, but atleast there's a few more options available through it.

Just keep at it, something will come eventually.
 
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