One of the most common questions new graduates have is whether they should start applying for jobs right now or wait until their skills are “good enough.” In this Lounge Access conversation, the caller is worried about getting rejected and is tempted to keep polishing skills before ever facing an interviewer. It sounds reasonable on the surface, but it quietly leads to months of delay and frustration.
Shoaib shares a very different and much more practical way to look at it. Honing your skills never really ends, even top leaders feel they have areas to improve. If you wait until you feel perfectly ready, you may never actually apply anywhere. Instead, Shoaib suggests you start applying, treat every interview as a learning opportunity and focus on getting real feedback from real questions rather than guessing in isolation.
He also offers a simple framework to handle rejection in a healthy way. Keep a basic tracker of the companies you apply to, the interviews you attend, the questions you faced and the answers you gave. After every interview, do your own “lessons learned” exercise and improve your answers for the next one. This approach shifts your mindset from “I must clear my very first interview” to “each interview is helping me get better.”
For any fresher stuck in analysis paralysis, this video is a gentle push to start. It normalizes rejection, reminds you that no one announces your failures to the world and shows how early attempts, even unsuccessful ones, can speed up your learning and your path to that first job.
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