I applied for a sales rep position for the same company where my sister was working from home. I have experience as a technical support specialist for Xfinity and a customer support representative for a care service, but I barely have any sales experience. My sister, while good with computers, wasn’t performing as well as I did as a tech support, so when she referred me to her current job, I thought I would be good at it, and my sister also had faith in me that I could do better at her job since I was tech savvy, but my interviewer said otherwise, which I should have guessed.

The entire time I was working as a tech support and customer service rep, I was only able to sell 1 product to a customer, since sales wasn’t my main role. So while I wasn’t good at selling, I technically did have experience in that role, only selling 1 single product, albeit very badly at it.

I answered all of the interviewer’s questions with flying colors, until the mock call exposed my inexperience. He asked me to sell a phone, so I tried to pull from my experience, but I was trying to sell a mobile service, not a phone. We had to do three takes. I failed every single one of them. After that, the interviewer ended the recording and told me I wasn’t adaptable enough and that I’m not cut out for this role.

I’m pretty bummed out, since this was the first time I experienced an interview that ended horribly. I had another interview for an IT helpdesk technician role before this one, so I hope I get the position, since it aligns with my experience, but I’m still worried, since I feel like I was selling myself too much for that role. That horrible interview made me self-conscious on how I present myself to a recruiter, and now I don’t know if I’ll ever land a job after that.