Keep self-sabotaging job interviews

[LostNomad]

I guess this is more an announcement, than a cry for help. But I renounce! I now have a worse record that the Buffalo Bills in Superbowls with job interviews. I've done maybe 8 interviews over the past 2 years and got one (the job I'm in right now) but I was lied to about my growth in the company, it's over 3 hours from my home city and I now hate it. In fact I've never liked office environments. I blame that due to graduating and being pushed into the wrong career (in finance) and never recovering. I'm now in semi-marketing, which is a super-competitive industry and not many jobs. My dream is to have a business, and I've started it but am not ready to trade anytime soon. I'm just trying to get a job closer to home that will give me some much needed skills before I go it alone. But I think it's time to bin my CV and say that I'm not good enough to work for companies?! I should also say, I went through a period of depression after being sacked from a previous job. It's a dark period of my life that I never want to look back on. From then on I said to myself have to do something I'm passionate about.

 

I guess what I'm trying to ask is, am I self-sabotaging due to not really wanting these interview jobs as a career, despite the paradoxical fact that I do actually want the job?

 

Thanks

[AtitAgain]

What I have found to work for me is that any opportunity that you apply for, view it as your dream job. Your attitude towards a position surely comes across when you are talking about it to the people doing the hiring. If you are not passionate about what you do, they won't be passionate about you.

[DanZee]

You might have a problem with being positive in your interviews. Always try to phrase things positively rather than negatively. Don't fall for the "tell me about your faults" question. Give examples of your successes.

[AtitAgain]

You might have a problem with being positive in your interviews. Always try to phrase things positively rather than negatively. Don't fall for the "tell me about your faults" question. Give examples of your successes.

 

"I would say that my major faults are not replying to my boss' e-mails on time, arriving 15min late daily, checking Facebook during work, ignoring customer phone calls... outside of that I am great!"

 

See POSITIVE!!!

[LostNomad]

OK, so I just received feedback. The reason I never got this job was not completely down to my outlook. It was based on my career experience being in a different and more dynamic market. I.e. I think I appeared too high value. What tripped me up was an understanding of the day to day role, I think they sensed my bedded experience in individually producing work rather than being part of a team that links up to produce work. Other than that the interview went very well, and I had clearly researched the company, but I need to make sure I know the finer details.

 

If I do apply for positions again. I will only do so on a commitment to myself in that I will ''lie to myself'' as this is the dream job. Otherwise I'm just wasting my time. I've seen myself applying for roles just because it is a job, I have no intention of going for it. I have to shift that mindset.

 

Thanks again for everyone's input.

[mustlovedogs]

Why did you get sacked at a prior job?

[LostNomad]

Poor performance ultimately. It was a job that I wasn't passionate about, and in the wrong career. But I was used as a scape goat for a lot of things that went wrong, and I never challenged them when they did get ride of me (without any warning). I was young and naive. This made me stop trusting company motives for a long time.

[mustlovedogs]

Are you being sure to address those issues in interviews?

[LostNomad]

No, because that would come off weird in an interview. I don't directly mention negatives in interviews.

[abitbroken]

Poor performance ultimately. It was a job that I wasn't passionate about, and in the wrong career. But I was used as a scape goat for a lot of things that went wrong, and I never challenged them when they did get ride of me (without any warning). I was young and naive. This made me stop trusting company motives for a long time.

 

there are no nerfarious company motives if you performed poorly, IMHO

[mustlovedogs]

I mean if they asked about it.