ACING YOUR INTERNSHIP
BOUNCING BACK FROM REJECTION Nobody likes being turned down from a promising internship. Flip this negative into a positive and make it worth your while.
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that you did everything perfectly right up to the interview.
determining the real reason behind your results, and the only person keeping count of
1.
Dealing with rejection
2.
Ask for feedback
The most important rule about dealing through several rounds of interviews from overthinking about the reason are just not in your favour – for instance, there may have been an overwhelming number of equally excellent candidates applying for the same internship. Stay
coming out short, ask the interviewer for feedback and decide how best to tweak
to gain relevant work experience.
anyway as you never know when you’ll don’t be overly persistent if recruiters take a while to respond or don’t get back to you at all.
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