There are many reasons you don't
even make it to the interview stage.
Not exact matches
After years of perennial complaints from the press about the
stage - managed nature of party conferences,
even the Liberal Democrats have taken bold steps
to make interviews with the press
even more predictable.
But
even before you do so,
make the effort
to ask questions during the
interview stage.
Even then,
making it
to the
interview stage doesn't guarantee that the candidate will be offered the position.
Reject everyone you're not hiring,
even if they never
made it
to the
interview stage.
You might not think so, but once you reach the
interview stage, you will need
to make an
even bigger effort
to ace this
stage than you have in the past, when your focus was just the resume and the cover letter.
This way,
even if you don't get a particular job you can still feel a sense of accomplishment in
making it
to the
interview stage, or
making a new contact, for example.