Final Round Advice

In pretty much all interview processes that I've been in, I do well throughout the interviews but ultimately I don't get the offer. Currently a rising senior and have gone through 10+ processes where I've failed to get an offer. Given the competitive nature of jobs I've interviewed for how do I go about standing out and fixing this woeful final round conversion rate? 

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Ultimately I found through my own experience that my offer rate heavily correlated with how relaxed my demeanor was during the SD. I almost always nailed the technicals, but I found that whenever I treated the interview as an interview I got rejected and whenever I treated the interview almost as a networking call and was loose enough to joke around and have a casual conversation I converted.

 

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