Just received feedback from the interviews I’ve had recently. I didn’t get the jobs but it was the feedback that interested me.
“You’re too much.”
“Too good.”
“You overpowered the job. We would love to have you around, but this isn’t the job for you. You need to aim one or two levels higher.”
I’ve never had feedback like that before. I went back to my diary and matched the interviews with what pheros I was wearing that day. As I suspected, I was wearing 2 drops of A314 for those interviews.
It really does make you “too cool for skool”. I’ll have to drop it and go as a blank canvas in future. See if that makes a difference.
Wouldn’t surprise me if it’s a bit of both… What boss is going to want to hire someone who has qualifications as good as or better than him/herself…especally not if they also come across as very confident, alpha leader type… That combination is seriously intimidating
No, none of them mentioned qualifications or experience as the problem. They were talking about me as a person being too much for the job and saying I should aim higher, you’re better than this.
I asked for more detail and they said it’s nothing I specifically said or did. They just got the impression they were talking to someone who is used to doing things bigger and better, being granted more autonomy, control etc. Someone who is used to giving orders, not taking them.
If you were especially being congruent with the part, then that must have made things worse for you. Not that it’s bad to be looked at like that, but in your situation it obviously didn’t go well.
I wonder if not trying to act too congruent with the A314 would’ve helped?
Hrmm… I guess I’ve only had one interview since getting Pheros… and one of the job requirements was a significant level of autonomy and decision making…
Although I did wear IS with my A314 for the interview…
I had the best job interview ever this week. Mixing pheros and putting on some A314 on top and after some time. Gonna post about that in The Magic Journal.
