Listener Q&A: First Interview is Great - 2nd & 3rd Interview Go Downhill. My Strategy to Fix It.
Hired: Talent VP on Job Interviews, Negotiation & Offers
Hired Podcast
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Quick favor, if you're listening on Apple Podcasts, we're only a couple hundred reviews away from 1,000, which is an enormous milestone for the show. |
| 0:10.6 | If you've gotten value from these episodes and you have the Apple Podcast app, it takes 10 seconds, just tap the five stars and hit submit. |
| 0:19.8 | Or I'd love to hear your experience and how this |
| 0:23.7 | has helped you in the review. These stories mean everything to me. Let's hit that 1000 mark together |
| 0:30.3 | and thank you so much in advance. Welcome to the job interview experience. We have a listener question here that I'm going to play in just a couple |
| 0:41.6 | seconds about the interview arc, which I think a lot of you are experiencing. It's starting off |
| 0:47.8 | with the first interview, feeling confident, optimistic, that interview going well, and then |
| 0:52.6 | fading out on the second and third round interviews. |
| 0:56.5 | And the feeling is that they don't go well. |
| 1:00.0 | In this episode, I'm going to tell you the three steps from the recruiter side of the table, what they look for in each interview, what's on their mind during each interview. |
| 1:09.3 | Then I'm going to give you a strategy on how to build and create a different interview and experience for the company, |
| 1:16.0 | for the recruiter, whoever it is, a different experience during each interview that build upon |
| 1:22.5 | themselves. Create some differentiation for different people that you speak with, or if it's the same person |
| 1:29.0 | you talk to each time, you're bringing in fresh new energy for each interview. |
| 1:34.5 | Really quick, please go to Spotify and leave a rating. It takes about two seconds if you're |
| 1:39.7 | using Spotify. You just have to click the button, one through five stars. I really prefer if you do five stars or go to Apple. |
| 1:47.0 | I haven't gotten a written Apple review in a long time. It does make me kind of sad. If you go there |
| 1:53.0 | and please leave a five star review and tell me what you think, I really appreciate it. Now I'm |
| 1:58.6 | going to play the listener's question that they sent in through the voicemail bag. |
| 2:02.2 | Hi, I have really enjoyed this podcast and learned a lot, |
| 2:06.1 | so thank you for making this great advice available. |
| 2:09.3 | My question today is about what I'm going to call the interview arc. |
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