You Either Win or You Win Later!

You either get the job you're applying for, or you gain valuable experience to use in future applications elsewhere. Use your experiences to your benefit.

When we are infants and we are learning to walk, we walked by trial and error, not trial and failure. You learned from your last experience of walking, learned from it when you stood up to go again and eventually got it right. You're not going to get it right the first time, or the second, or maybe even the third; but you remember your negatives and bring your positives with you.

If we never learned from our experiences, then we'd all still be walking on all fours. You will get that job you want, but work wisely for it and eventually you will get past the nerve-wracking interview. Unfortunately, we can't be the best at everything we do. Sometimes your interview might be just out of this world, but there could be another candidate who interviewed just a little better or maybe suited the interviewer's requirements on that particular day. It could drive someone mad thinking they weren't the best interviewees on the day, but that's normal. The point here is even if you don't get the job, it doesn't mean you had a 'bad interview' or that you failed.

Once you prepare to the best of your ability, then you could put an unsuccessful interview down to being unsuitable, and although that's still a pain in the neck, you should find some solace in it.

"What did I say?"

"What didn't I say?"

"Did I prepare enough?"

These are just some questions you might ask yourself after you find out you didn't get the job you interviewed for. Go into your next interview armed with your previous experiences and use them to your advantage.