Getting ghosted sucks, but it stings even worse when you've invested in multiple rounds of interviews. How do you keep your hopes up after experiencing that?

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I absolutely HATE being ghosted. It takes less than a minute to send a generic we went with someone else email. You don't even have to call me or personalize it. The worst for me was going through 8 interviews and knowing it was me or one other, and they still didn't have the courtesy to tell me or respond to my follow-up emails. I almost gave up after that one. There's not much I could do, but keep on going and know one day the right place would come along. And it did ☺️

I keep a worksheet of my job apps so in the moments when I’m down, I just take a look at the sheet and think to myself, “Some of this is just a numbers game. Keep your head up!”

It also helps to get feedback from the companies that I was more invested in. Recently, I was turned down from what I thought was a sure shot position, but turns out the company had changed its direction and wanted to go for people with a different skill set — so there wasn’t anything I could have done in my end.

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