Nothing wrong with my interviews mate. In fact I can guarantee I interviewed better than anyone else today, seems like they wanted to give it to someone internal to them (again) and it just means anything I do, including bloody qualifications is meaningless. I mean the staff mentoring qualification I got, senior staff were on thst course, it wasn't for any old person it was for actually high up people to do.
That's why it's crushing. Two interviews barely a week apart and my interviews were fantastic. I genuinely can't interview any better than what I am.
I need the better job for the experience but can't get the experience without the job. I can't sell myself any more than what I am or do more. Never mind a glass ceiling it's starting to feel like a prison now so to speak. Most of the interviews thst come up seem to be ear marked, but I genuinely can't do more than what I am doing either. My qualifications I have got through work as mentioned above are actually high standard, much higher than my job role. I just need that one opportunity and I won't look back after that. I see jobs being handed to people all the time and I can't win, I'm always the next in line now, I can do this shadowing but how long will that take? How arsed are my managers going to be in helping me leave?
But yeah, just crushing that I can't do anything more. Plus it's the waiting game for another job to come along and to even get shortlisted for that or not. Could be months before I get another interview and for all I know it could end up the same way as today if someone just has departmental experience
My experience, fwiw, on the hiring side of the desk ..
If someone's interviewed really well, and has ticked all the other boxes for a job, but that job was destined all along for someone else, then I would
actively ( not reactively ) make sure that the person who interviewed well, knew they'd done well, and, when an appropriate post came vacant, I would contact that person to make sure they applied.
Unless new jobs / promotions are few and far between, then I'd expect such a post to come up within six months, twelve months max. If you've been interviewed twice recently in your current company, and no-one actively contacts you to tell you to apply for post <a>
in a twelve month period then one of the following almost certainly applies :-
a ) Your face doesn't fit and never will
b ) You're overestimating how good you are
Either way, it's probably not the right company for you and you need to move, even if it's only a sideways move. If it's (a), moving is defo the only way forward, if it's (b) and the cycle repeats, then it's probably you.
