Whining/patheticness/questioning/hope-giving thread.
1. Has anyone else here failed tonnes of interviews due to bad social skills? I failed a spring week interview months ago and 2 internship interviews recently due to this. I have such little experience for competency questions that it's a stretch to get anything worthwhile from my life for some of the answers.
2. I'm a UK penultimate year complete non-target, non-finance-major with no extracurriculars, no positions of responsibility, a few menial part time jobs plus office work at a no name company. My academics and perfectly structured CV/letter are my only strong points. I got the opportunity to waste 2 intern interviews with BBs in S&T and have 2 more coming up (a BB and MM).
Is it fair to say that the competitiveness is overblown? If I get a job with an engineering company (my major) this summer and gain any social skills will I be all set for applying for internships next year?
3. How do you UKers get anything worthwhile on your resume? There seems to be nothing worthwhile to do. I get jelly of seeing all the americans on here with 50 clubs on their CV, all of them handling $10k+ in some random club.
It's too late to get good at a sport and all uni societies are cliquey places which people do to pad their CVs and there's no chance of me getting anything from them in return.
I have lots of money to waste though, feel free to suggest anything.
Homie... your first step is to gain some confidence. People aren't socially skilled because they are in societies or play sports or anything like that.
If you ooze confidence, people will believe you, sometimes even if you sound stupid!. And it sounds like you are actually pretty smart so own that and act confident.
This is a tough one because confidence and social skills come pretty easy to me whereas I've have to work harder to be as technically spot on as my mates (see what I did there).
If you are confident, you will exude confidence. It's hard to fake, so think about what you are confident about. If you want a S&T job, and you think you can be good at it, tell them.
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