Finding a great employment opening that’s a perfect fit for your career aspirations:
Submitting an awesome application package on time:
Staying in a work situation that you’re way, way too overqualified for because you need the money:
Waiting for potential employers to contact you:
Getting a phone/screening interview:
Not hearing back after the phone/screening interview:
Filling out more job applications than you usually do:
Getting an in-person interview…and then getting nervous right before the interview:
Something goes wrong during the candidacy process, but you have no idea what that is:
The company tells you that they’ve decided to go with another candidate:
Getting “helpful” job-hunting advice from a relative or friend after the rejection–when you didn’t actually ask for advice:
Having to start the whole process over again while working at the job you are overqualified for: