Perhaps you could simply call them again and clarify your mix-up? They might be nice and will interview you a second time when you are in the right mindset?
Is the job from the calling company really that different from the one you thought it was about?

I presume interview was done via the phone?

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Like Zogg said, can't you just get back to them and explain that you mixed the jobs up?
And maybe (hopefully) you didn't quite tank the interview.
Shouldn't it be part of the interviewer's job to tell you what vacancy the interview is for?

Ouch, that sucks :(

Well, I suppose you might try to call them, admit your mistake, and see if they offer you a second interview! The worst that could happen is that they say no.

Missclicked and lost what I wrote. Fuck.

Anyway, i would totally ruin a phone interview too. As a person who had his own shitty interviews, I feel you.
I don't know how they can miss a personal interview, so much information missing on the phone. For me, it makes no sense.

You can always try and re-apply saying that you mixed the position, but again, they may think that you should asked that on the phone, being calmer, etc. They have complete control of the situation :(

That's really tough, GiaP11. That would be a really disappointing facepalm moment. That said, this kind of thing can happen when you're applying and interviewing at a bunch of companies-- for a bunch of different roles. Try not to be too hard on yourself, and maybe learn from it to keep a notepad or file or something with all pending companies including the person you talked to (if any), position, link to job ad, etc. so it doesn't happen again.

Depending on the position and how interested you were in it-- and how suited for it you felt you were-- it might be worth calling them back and explaining. Be humble and apologetic, but briefly state your qualifications so you can quickly get that on record. Come clean and say you mistakenly thought it was for a different type of position, hence your answers. Ask if they could interview you by phone again, or you'd be happy to come in person if they prefer (they probably won't, but you're showing flexibility).

Don't expect anything from the call-back, but at least you did something-- tried to correct your mistake. I've conducted phone and in-person interviews before, and If I liked your résumé, and/or didn't have any good candidates at the moment, I would probably give you another chance. They might have been confused by your first interview and this will explain it.

Good luck-- you have nothing to lose by calling them back. Whether or not anything works out, at least you can put this mistake behind you knowing you did something-- you tried. And please let us know how it turns out. =)

Edit: if the job didn't look that great or it was a longshot in the first place, you could reasonably save yourself the embarrassment and just write it off and laugh at yourself for it. It'll be a great story at parties, or at your future employer (once you get the job)! =)

That's really unfortunate. I too had a phone interview go really poorly too, thought in a completely different way.

I had an interview scheduled for a company that I was really excited to work at, with a sizable bump in salary. The day of the interview I had to be on the road, driving to a city 3 hours away, but I timed it such that I would arrive early and could take the call from my car. Then the call never came.

Apparently, the interviewer who scheduled the call sent me an Exchange meeting invite in the email stating the date and time, which I didn't realize as I use Gmail. And because I never accepted the meeting invite, they assumed that I wasn't going to be around and didn't call. I emailed them back and apologized for the mixup, and asked to schedule another call, but never heard from them again.

But hey, things worked out - maybe not in the way I had hoped or expected, but they worked out in the end. I'm sure they'll work out for you too. :)

Yeah, you should call them back and when you've got them on the phone, just be like, "Hold on, I've got another call. It's really important." Then wait like a second and go, "Look, I know why you're calling and with all due respect Mr. President, we've been through this before. I know I may be the only one who can broker world peace, but right now I need to focus on me and pursue my life-long goal of working with [company name] and if this North Korea thing really does come to a head, then just give me a call back. OK buddy? We still on for drinks Friday? ...Hello?" Then, you apologize for "accidentally" not switching lines, but they won't care, cause they'll think you're talking to the president of the USA or maybe the UN or something and be so impressed by your high-powered friends and aplomb that they'll give you the job on the spot. That's how I moved from stockroom all the way to retail associate. 😎

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Dang. That's hard. Last year I was unemployed from July to December, and interviewing was always tough. There were even some interviews that I thought I nailed that I just never heard back from.

My horror story was one where I was nearly half an hour late because the street numbers were wonky. I was looking for a building at 2901. I was going along the road and saw I was nearly there. The building was 2889. But then the next building was 2912. What I didn't know at the time was that building 2912 was technically facing the other direction, on a parallel street. It had an entrance facing the street I was on, but that was the back door, not the front. So I was going around in circles, trying to find a building between these two, or a door on one of the buildings that had its own street number. What I should have done was call someone, but I didn't think to save the interviewer's phone number, and I wasn't sure which of the no-name recent calls was his. Anyway, 2901 on the street I was actually trying to find was about a quarter mile down the road from 2901. They still interviewed me when I got there, but I'm pretty sure they weren't impressed with me.

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It's a good thing you're prepared though! Also, you hit the interview stage which is really really good! You could still be considered in any case, even if you're answers were soft, your CV might help you make up for it
Maybe you can keep short notes next time? Just like on your computer or your phone? Like

Company A
Job 2
Position
Etc

Just so you can be sure the next time

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Like some others, I also think that calling and explaining yourself would be good. But I can't really tell how that's going to go down.

What I can say is:

How the company reacts would depend the people handling your recruitment. If they're good people, I think they'd appreciate your honesty.

If they're good people they'd feel that something is wrong. They won't know what to chalk it up to, so it will likely lower your chance. Being up front would help in this case.

It's normal for someone looking for a job to apply to several companies. It shouldn't put any company off knowing that you applied elsewhere.

That's the company you feel is the best match for you. If you make it clear, it might make a different to them.

That said, there's of course the chance that being honest in this case won't help, but I think there's a better chance that it will.

UPDATE: I was asked to take a test (2nd screening stage or sth), so at least I passed the phone interview!!! Yay!!!

I guess I'm a harsher critic of myself than my interviewer, I knew I should wait and see what impression I made overall! :-))

I really hope I get this job, I get a feeling I would fit very well with the colleagues.

Maybe they will just think "Hey, this chick has really low expectations. Let's exploit that and hire her while paying her next to nothing." And all will be good!

You sound very clued in, so you might not need this, but I've found lots of good resume/CV, interviewing, and general job info at Ask a Manager. It's fairly US centric, so might not be 100% helpful, but she takes all sorts of questions and the commentariat is super sharp. And there's also all the stories about the crazies like the CEO that tried to force his employees to donate a kidney to his brother...

Ergh, that sucks.
I once managed to get a job the other way around, where my initial application was rejected (but like so many companies they just decided to say nothing), but when calling them back to find out, I left a great impression over the phone due to having a bad cold and managing to strike up a good rapport. The job was call center based, heh. It's funny how things work out sometimes (I only lasted a few weeks at the job due to personal issues anyway :P)

Another time I flunked an interview due to a technical issue on their system. Was aiming for a data entry position, and they used an odd program to monitor accuracy and speed during the a brief test period, that gave you a full-screen popup on any incorrect input, but that also closed again on any key. To begin with, we all had strong words-per-minute, so a single error usually involved pressing another few keys while our hands quickly auto-finished words or number strings we were reading off sheets. If you're like me and correct things in clusters during a glance back, that was bad enough. The real kicker was that the terminal I was given had an old keyboard with physically sticky keysprings, so sometime depressing a key would result in several registered presses. The spacebar in particular was awful, and resulted in a constant strobing of the warning message as I racked up multiple tens of errors on any given stick of the spacebar. Nobody was around to even mention this to, as they expected their program to do everything, and we were cautioned not to interrupt other staff in their data entry work given it was a pressured environment. After 10 minutes of the 30 minute test session was up, and finding there was nobody looking like a reception staff, I asked someone who wasn't typing (was tapping papers to shuffle them into a neater pile) at the moment where I could find someone to talk to about it... and got an openly annoyed glare and a (paraphrased) "I don't know. Look, I'm busy. Try through there" and an unconcerned gesture towards the empty waiting area, that was through an open door and plainly empty.

Job hunting is a real weird game of rituals and collectively dumb dancing. It sucks you may have missed this one chance but maybe it just wasn't meant to be. You'll nail it eventually, so hang in there!

I'm often on the same quest and mood. Good luck for us

that why i take a govement job test, and that it, when you pass.... you pass.. no interview or anything,
It sound a bit cliche, but good luck next time Gia