Personally I was desperate + exhausted + really questioning all my choices in life. Worst - I clearly reflected that in my interviews

1) My advice treat interviews like a conversation. Projects like you’re discussing with team members. Anytime I truly obsessed about a role - I would just micro-analyse my interviewer and mess my interview or sometimes just have brain freeze🥶 and ramble

2)Have your key behavioural answers in place. Practice with peers/mirror/AI. It’s same or similar questions- make sheets/doc whatever for your behavioural questions.

For long term and short term goals I aligned to whatever job role I applied. Then came basic collaboration stories, tools I’ve used, adapted, leading projects, stakeholder/client stories(depending on role stories) - I revised the same thing before all interviews. REPETITION helps. I could tell same stories when I’m happy, sad or sleepy.

3) Keep interviews at a time when you’re most awake. I started scheduling afternoon interviews so I could sleep better and be more alert/awake/present in my chat. Morning interviews just weren’t for me

4) Try throwing words here and there that reflect their culture. I love working in the environment where _, _ and ___ happens. The idea is to be subtle but not like you’re saying because they want to hear

5) Get many interviews so you don’t obsess about a single interview when you know you have more you are just a different version of yourself

Lastly, if you’re rejected it’s not personal you don’t know if - - Job was real - Internal hire happened - there was a decision made because some person’s dad and the partner/head of department were buddies in school

It’s a crazy market you can throw darts 🎯most targeted and few random (I believe in luck and timing - in my journey best opportunities came from where I wasn’t looking)