Dear Sir,
I am a recent graduate and have been looking for a job.
The biggest problem is online interview. I live in a small house with a big family.
Inside the house, there is no private place for an interview.
When I go outside, I sweat a lot.
Also, online interviews make me more nervous than real interviews.
How can I solve my problem?
Vinay Karmakar

I'm 42 year old BCom graduate from Hindi medium. I applied for a new job after 15 years for better salary and prospects. I have face-to-face interview with the boss but I am feeling scared and nervous. My English is weak, not so good. I want to prepare. How to do so? Help pls

I’m a 22-year-old girl from Pune, and I’ve been struggling with job interviews. Every time I walk into an interview room, mera confidence bilkul hil jata hai. I either fumble with my answers or I completely blank out. I know I have the skills for the jobs I’m applying for, but itna stress ho jata hai ki sab kuch bhool jaati hoon. How can I deal with the performance anxiety and stress of not cracking an interview?

I have been jobless since 2 years. During COVID, I was undergoing tremendous amount of stress due to the lockdowns & WFH. It had telling effect on me & I realized am going through depression when I joined a job which required me to work from office. I quit job a month after I joined the company where the toxic work culture had a big toll on me to the extent of instilling a fear of formal office environs in me, which continues to this day. I have become a recluse. Now I feel I should have sought professional intervention much earlier, rather than just 6 months back. I lost all confidence of turning up for interviews, leave alone joining some job. I fear & hate admitting that infront of my wife who is very temperamental & nags me consistently about job search, as much as she tries to figure out things in my life. Every day I apply to jobs but every time I fail an interview I console myself thinking that I am saved of botheration of the rigors of a job which I can't face. I don't admit to my wife so as not to infuriate her & don't trust her that she will empathise with my situation in life. Hence try to keep up with good facade. But the results never improve- I failed every interview (calls though are hard to come by) which I fully know that its because I could not give my 100 % energy. Now the reluctance is due to many factors- IT is very fast changing field; I have reached a senior level where there are many expectations on that role which I never got to nurture/grow on myself. So every interview gives me shivers: 1) About my performance 2) (provided am selected somehow) About whether I would be able to fulfill my role to my satisfaction (previous professional experience haunts me to this date). As a result of all this I very often mentally exhaust myself (worrying/ wishful)thinking of things rather than bringing myself to earn money for the family. I feel I am just doing things to fill up my day, languishing by doing things that do not bring any value- rather than positively, pro-actively doing something of my career. Due to the gap of 2 years I do not get favorable response from companies I apply to. That is a very big gap to fill & I can't talk my way into saying things like I was in depression or that I did nothing for those 2 years. That further increases my anxiety, I have grown aversion to this entire goings on. I feel direction-less & drained out all the time. Please help.