Chapter 16 What if you miss out on the job?

However brilliant you are at interview, you won’t always get the job. No one is right for every post, and inevitably there will be rejections. While you should be aware of any flaws in your performance, and make a note of them so you can work on them for next time, you shouldn’t blame yourself if you don’t get the job. If you’ve done all your preparation and followed all the advice in this book, you’ve done everything you could.

Well, that’s fine if you’ve got lots of other promising interviews coming up, and maybe you had reservations anyway about the job you didn’t get. But what if this was one of those jobs you were itching to get, and you ...

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