Jobs and Rejection

Lamps

I’m currently in a job I despise and it’s wrecking my head. I’m not the right person for the job and after 6 months I’m dying to get out of it. But every job/interview I’m going for is coming back with rejection letters, I feel so useless and rejected. I think I do quite a good interview and up until this point had gotten every job I had gone on an interview for. But I’ve done 3 interviews now and I’ve been rejected on them all and I’m getting really down and depressed from it, I’m just sick of it all and want to pack it all in.

I’m 26 now and am working the area I did my degree in, there’s a specific council job that my degree is aimed at and I did 9months college placement in it. I loved it. But there’s no way I can get into that job as the competition is really crazy. So I’ve had to settle for other types of jobs related to my degree and have hated them all.

But I really haven’t a clue what I would do if I was to leave this field. I don’t know what job I’d like. If I don’t stick at something related to the council job I’m never going to get it. But I couldn’t stand another 3 or 4 years of trying to get the government job and working crap jobs related to my degree.

I feel like a fresh start with something that I enjoy and bit more challenging, but don’t know where to even start in the look for this career. I also feel I’ll be wasting 4 years I spent doing my degree (which is still sought after in the private sector).

This can all be so frustrating at times.

Pighead

3 rejections isn't too many in the grand scheme of things. Keep plugging away and you'll fins success soon enough.

By the way you're 24 not 26.

AlphaMale 3OO

Rejection is part and parcel of looking for a new job. It can be for ridiculous reasons but it may take 6 months or a year to ge into your ideal role. The key is not to panic. I have been in your situation, getting really pissd off at one letter coming after another and realised it was for 2 reasons:

a. I was applying for jobs I didnt really want and it was showing in the interview no matter how hard I tried to hide it. If you really want a job and are passionate about it, it will show.

b. I was trying to be someone I'm not in interviews and trying to be overly confident and assertive and being somebody I wish I was but that which I am not. I was doing this to the point of being defiant, like giving answers to questions that were so honest and up front they made me look bad. I was trying to be Roy Keane and this does not work in job interviews.

Anyway, I started being myself and assessing coldly what I was doing wrong. It has worked very well indeed so keep trying and dont get pissed off.

PS I also took the liberty of telling some company's post interview that their company was not for me! This wont achieve much but I did at least find it quite therapeutic!

grainne_t

I'd say to be persistent. It does take time but you should keep believing that the right job will come along. When/if you do get rejected, tell yourself that the job/company wasn't for you anyway.

I was in a similar situation...Had about 5 interviews in the space of 8 months. I kept getting rejections after second interviews. Everyone was telling me to try to get a job doing something else & work my way up in a company, but I'm glad to say that I didn't. I knew what job I wanted & was persistent & I've just been offered my ideal job.

I guess those things in life that are worth having never come easy! Goddammit!

the_syco

Whilst working in a cinema, I had well over 30 interviews for various places, with some only giving a PFO letter, others nothing. Got the current job, and it's cool now.

Lamps wrote:

But there’s no way I can get into that job as the competition is really crazy.

F**king bullsh|t. Only those who want it should get it. You are not one of them, it would seem? You do not want the job? As if you did, you would've applied.