The fear of an interview is scary than the fear of Interview itself.
Is it really the interview we are afraid of?
According to Google Search results, Fear is an unpleasant feeling triggered by the perception of danger, real or imagined. The keyword here is imagined. Imagination of human beings is quite vivid and extraordinary. Many things have been achieved or lost because of this imagination.
We all have fears of our own. Some are afraid of heights, some of spiders, darkness, etc. They are the most common fears of us human beings. But the most common fear that exists among the working class or people having a job is an interview.
In the 5.5 yrs of my experience working as a developer and past 2 years experience of taking interviews I have seen many candidates who are good but couldn't respond when they were asked questions. In the beginning it was quite irritating for me that why they are coming unprepared. Then while this conversation with my manager he said that its not entirely like that. Since me and my manager have a different tuning which is not common in the team manger and the developer paradigm so, he asked me to remember the days of college specially when the results of semester was going to be announced. I was afraid of getting failed and thats what most of us are afraid of getting failed. Then I realised it was never the fear of the exams it was and always will be the fear of failure. Thats is what we are afraid of.
I did quite the thinking that night and later talked to my father about and even the manager as well and everything was coming down to one single point that no matter how good I was or all those candidates we all lost because we loose the confidence that we have in ourselves which makes us afraid of the failure and we loose.
It has happened with me on multiple occasions that even If I knew the answer I couldn't recall it because I had imagined so many things about that special interview or the exam that I lost all confidence and performed badly. Then after I got my first job and started giving interviews again a year after that I realised something else, I was failing the interviews again. This time it wasn’t the confidence, it was the knowledge that I had about the field was limited. The more higher package job I craved, the more the demanding and challenges came with that role so does the questions during the interview.
Now, I am not afraid of the interview because I got to learn something else in the last 2 years that getting rejected in the interview is not a total failure. It actually set a benchmark for me that this is the level I need to get and these things are to be learnt and implement to become better at it and while I was learning and understanding those concepts I was still giving the interview just to be sure there isn’t a great deal left for the role and salary I want. After a month I was ready and not getting rejected in the interviews.
So, its not the interview we are afraid of, it’s more the outcome of that interview and we can control these outcomes. What really matters is our view and the actions that we take for making those outcomes a reality. As long as they are correct there is no challenge or an interview that can be cracked or excelled.
Thanks for reading, have a great time.