job i really wanted - i really fluffed up @ interview

Nicki

suzysue wrote:

Sorry to hear you didn't get the job. My advice would be to apply for jobs that you don't want. It may sound silly but if you reach interview stage you get free real interview experience which is far better than any practicing you can come up with. Its amazing how confident you can be at an interview for a job you don't really want!

I attended many interviews before I got my current job and the lessons I learned on what to say and what not to say on my failed interviews made me a proficient interviewee. I was also so used to being interviewed that I'd lost my nervousness of being interviewed. If you do get offered a job you don't want you can always politely decline it.

Hope this helps.

(Mr) suzysue

I really, really don't like this idea! I am a governor of a school and often have to give up whole days to interview candidates for posts, which is time consuming and also hard work. I'd be really fed up if someone we offered a job to declined it, and I later found out that they'd just applied to get interview practice. I might also have already told another candidate that they had not got the job, because I intended to offer it to the person who didn't in fact want it. In a business setting, businesses are spending a lot of time and money interviewing, which may be ill afforded in the case of smaller businesses.

Adopting this approach in my view, not far short to obtaining someone's services by deception, and therefore dishonest. If you do go down this route however, and later find out that you have missed out on a good job, because it was instead offered to someone who didn't in fact want it, and was just using the application process as practice for their dream job, I hope you will then take that news on the chin, as you will no doubt have done the same thing to others before you.