I had the chance to sit in on a job interview as a passionate observer recently. Unaffected by the proceedings, I absorbed the subtle clues of human interaction that reveal so much. It was fascinating.
I knew the jobseeker would not be hired. I also recognised that this was not a bad thing. He wasn't the right man for the job and the company was not the right place for him. That's the whole point of job interviews: to check if something that seems right really is.
And it's perfectly fine to admit that the answer is no.
Often, we label misfits as failures, take rejection hard. But life--and work--is a constant process of trying and adjusting, changing and growing. We can't do everything. So why not be grateful for the better fit that's coming, instead of regretting the wrong thing that passed by? Not landing in the wrong place is as much a success as being in the right one.
Failures are just the dry runs on the way to success. I take them in stride and learn from them, glad for the chance to try something new for a while. Hugs for Haiti!
Es war spannend dabei zu sein, das Gespräch lauschen zu dürfen und anschliessend nach den Kriterien der Jobsuchegurus zu analysieren. Wie suche ich denn nach Arbeit? Meist zufällig, so wie es kommt. Ich habe immer den richtigen Platz gefunden. Zum Schluß wird alles gut.
