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5 lessons job interviews have taught me

Ahhh,  just one more day to the weekends. It has been slightly more than 6 weeks since I entered the corporate world and I must say it has been one hell of a ride (in a good way). As I continued searching for a permanent job in the last 6 weeks, I have attended countless job interviews and needless to say, they have amounted to nothing. I'm not particularly discouraged because I believe everything happens for a reason but I suppose my mom is feeling more jittery than I am. I had the  most unpleasant job interview yesterday and it really left a mark. In fact, it left me wondering whether I deserved such unjustified treatment from whom seemed like a self-entitled high-handed hiring manager. They say you get better with each job interview and I cannot agree more. So after months of job-hunting, I decided to pen down a couple of lessons learned. 1   Be you No one should go into a job interview pretending to be someone else. Of course, we wished we were the perfect ...