Interview feedback made me feel down

sniggings

it's one persons view, who is to say he/she is an expert to be giving feedback advice! if he interviewed 10 people, does that mean 9 of them were totally unsuitable for the job? I doubt it or they wouldn't have been shortlisted, it just means one of them was more suited or more likely just got on better with the interviewer.

Truth is he preferred someone else for the job and didn't have any other reason to give you. He probably gave the same feedback to the other applicants if they too asked for feedback.

I'm not sure why people hold feedback from some unknown person in such high regard, you either don't have the right qualifications etc or you don't get on with the interviewer as well as someone else.

Chances are, if 3 people interviewed and all 3 were exactly the same in all respects, each of them would fail an interview 2 out of 3 times, so more often than not. 4 or 5 candidates and your chances are slim.

By getting the interview, which is hard in itself, probably means there wasn't much between you all, so then it's just a numbers game.

thundercut

Thanks for all your kind words. I am going to chalk this up to experience. And sniggings post really helped - I don't know why when we are rejected, in this case for a job, that we do hold so much weight on the feedback an otherwise unknown individual provides, particularly when this is just one persons subjective opinion, and you're not likely to ever see them again.

KiKi

What's engaging to me may not be engaging to you.

I don't agree that it's "corporate speak" at all, but I agree it's not helpful as you could define it so many ways.

OP - how long have you held your current contract? By the time it finishes at the end of March, how long will you have been continuously employed by them?

thundercut

KiKi wrote: »

What's engaging to me may not be engaging to you.

I don't agree that it's "corporate speak" at all, but I agree it's not helpful as you could define it so many ways.

OP - how long have you held your current contract? By the time it finishes at the end of March, how long will you have been continuously employed by them?

I will have been at my current place for 8 months in March. Prior to that I was with my previous employer for 3 years, and before that 8 years.