help! do i suck at interviewing?
Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2013 8:43 pm
here's the deal:
3L, top 20 law school, median maybe below, no urm, pre-law consulting job, reasonably attractive/sociable. but i keep striking out with interviews and have yet to find a job.
at a certain point i realize it's a numbers game; if you don't have the gpa for the big firms you interview at smaller firms or PI/govt that have fewer spots so you're odds are lower. but, what gets me is that i often strike out after the first or callback interview. this happened to me 3 times 2L year, i got called back waitlisted and no-offered at a firm, telephone call back with govt and then no offer after initial interview with small firm. i got my 2L summer gig from a telephone callback. i've rationalized those because the people they chose were actually classmates who were urm or just a better fit than me. but it's been really tough 3L year; so far i've struck out at a firm callback, a clerk interview and a first round interview that i thought i had a really good shot at. when you're one out of a handful of people and you think an interview goes well and you get a reject or hear nothing it makes you wonder if it's you.
the thing is, i did a 1l mock interview with a firm hiring partner and they said i was great. my cso seems to think i'm great. i never felt like i really bombed the interviews (except i felt a lack of connection with 2 of the ones 2l yr).
am i just sucking at this and clueless? does anyone else have this problem? how did you get real feedback and fix it?
i have 3 interviews (2 first round and 2nd) for my dream jobs next week so i wanna be sure i present as well as i can.
please help!
3L, top 20 law school, median maybe below, no urm, pre-law consulting job, reasonably attractive/sociable. but i keep striking out with interviews and have yet to find a job.
at a certain point i realize it's a numbers game; if you don't have the gpa for the big firms you interview at smaller firms or PI/govt that have fewer spots so you're odds are lower. but, what gets me is that i often strike out after the first or callback interview. this happened to me 3 times 2L year, i got called back waitlisted and no-offered at a firm, telephone call back with govt and then no offer after initial interview with small firm. i got my 2L summer gig from a telephone callback. i've rationalized those because the people they chose were actually classmates who were urm or just a better fit than me. but it's been really tough 3L year; so far i've struck out at a firm callback, a clerk interview and a first round interview that i thought i had a really good shot at. when you're one out of a handful of people and you think an interview goes well and you get a reject or hear nothing it makes you wonder if it's you.
the thing is, i did a 1l mock interview with a firm hiring partner and they said i was great. my cso seems to think i'm great. i never felt like i really bombed the interviews (except i felt a lack of connection with 2 of the ones 2l yr).
am i just sucking at this and clueless? does anyone else have this problem? how did you get real feedback and fix it?
i have 3 interviews (2 first round and 2nd) for my dream jobs next week so i wanna be sure i present as well as i can.
please help!