Question to people who have gone from some form of unemployment to being employed between late 2022 (iirc, when the trend of massive layoffs started) to now: What is harder, interviewing for a design job or doing your day-to-day design work? Honestly curious lol
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Interviewing is the hardest. You can feel your absolute best, feel natural, nail all the points, vibe… and for some reason judgement is passed that is not in your favor. That’s hard…
What’s worse is when you are passed on and they hire a less qualified person and it doesn’t work out, you learn that person leaves two months in and the role is back up…being passed up isn’t always because someone better took the spot. It’s that poor judgement was passed… 🤦♂️
Tbh I don't look into who was hired instead of me because that would surely drive me insane.. But I do feel a tinge of insanity when I see a role I got rejected from still advertised (bc no one was hired lol)
Applying for a job through a referral and having it not work out for any reason is rough in itself.. Especially earlier in my career when I would have a friend escort me through an office just to be rejected lol