I think working remotely for the past few years has made me even more socially awkward before. I have no trouble getting interviews at all. I get at least 10-15 interviews scheduled per week. I was still working when I got my 2 previous jobs over the past 3 years so it didn’t seem difficult then.
I was looking since last fall and things seemed to be going well until I got laid off a couple of months ago. Ever since I got laid off, I still get interviews (at least 10-15 interviews a week) and make it to final interviews then I would get rejected. Or I would have a hiring manager tell me they are interested in taking me to the next step of the interview and I would find an email from them the next day saying that I will not be moving forward.
Now I am extremely worried that I am either blacklisted or that I am being interviewed for diversity purposes only even though they might already have a candidate that they want to hire.
And now I feel even more disheartened because 2 of my previous coworkers got the jobs recently that I made it to the final interviews for a couple of months ago but I got rejected. And they were still working the whole time.
I’ve gone halfway through my unemployment benefits already and I am getting scared that I won’t find a job soon.
I didn’t have this issue before. Could it be because of jobless stigma? Or could it be my ADHD making me not so great at interviewing?