Interview Advice

Does your school's career planning services offer mock interviews? That's a good place to start if you want critique. I can give you advice, but I'd be shooting in the dark since I simply don't know how you perform. You have to remember there are quite a few things you can't control. It takes one better, qualified candidate to remove you from the drawing list or maybe your personality was simply not a fit despite meeting skill qualifications. I know that feeling of endlessly applying hundreds of applications over 6 months, and mentally strained from thinking about the few interview results. It sucks. I will say that them not following up on your second interview and leaving you in the dark is pretty rude. I guess I'm fortunate on that part that HR/Managers I interviewed with weren't assholes.

I believe online resources can be misleading, but only if you didn't get the complete picture of all the advices available to you. I likely spent days on interviews guides and personal anecdotes here on Reddit on how to answer questions. You'd find some advices are plain wrong, but that really depends on the industry and unfortunately right down to the individual that is interviewing you. So to answer your questions of what to say or what to omit really comes down to the jobs you're applying for. I could only offer the obvious advice of omitting that you're looking to play hopscotch on jobs. No one wants to waste time and money on someone like that if presented straight up to their face.

I would personally suggest going to this website from CSULB for the interview guide: https://careers.csulb.edu/students/jobs_prepare.htm#tabs1-2

The first job I got was nailed because of this (on top of other advices/guides). The key for me was answering the behavioral questions right and crossing my fingers that my personality and career plan fit. To make it short, I simply answered that I wished to grow with them, had all/majority of skills they wanted, and my behavior was very fitting with the culture there (very extroverted). There's likely more to it, but it's all seems like it comes down to luck. Even I can't look at those superstar interviews that say they always get offers with a straight face. Good luck on your job search!

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