The Job Search

I just came back from my day of interviews and had to find a space to vent..so here goes:

My first interview was for a healthcare company. I arrived on time..there was a written part which took me a little longer than expected because directions were kind of vague. But I managed to finish it and thought I did pretty good. Then there was the 'panel' part. Which, you know, by the sound of it, you would think consisted of these top notch officials looking to see how passionate and qualified you are for the job. But no, it composed of two other interns I would be working with and two other people, one of whom didn't speak at all and the other asked only a few questions. I introduced myself and did everything according to the book: setting up the context, explaining why I'm interested, qualifications, etc. But it was awkward. The so called 'panel' felt very inexperienced in these things. They didn't know what questions to ask, there were silences when I didn't know whether to initiate something or not. This might seem full of me, but I honestly felt older than the other two interns, more mature, and like I've been through more. Maybe I wasn't prepared for the interview because I couldn't really find material on the internet and didn't know what to expect, but I honestly came off feeling good about it. And then I met with another person...older and I'm guessing in charge of the project. She event told me that I did fine on the written part and interviewed well. So how did that make me feel? Good! Until a few hours later when I get the email that though I did well on the test and interviewed 'really well', they couldn't offer me the position.

I am irked. Mostly at nobody's fault, but I have to vent. One for the last lady who had raised my hopes of getting the job. Another for the interns who, looking back, might have felt almost (for lack of a better word) threatened by my answers? I don't know. But I feel like I did a mistake by interviewing so well! Like maybe I shouldn't have been so elaborate on my descriptions to make it seem like I have done so much? Should I have played it down so they would think I'm more capable of a data-inputting job? Maybe they think I'm overqualified? But I have to start somewhere! I'm sorry, I feel really mean saying this, but how could the interns who interviewed me get the job when I couldn't. Of course I'm just bitter about it so I'm not thinking properly but I'm so sick of jobs on the one hand that say Masters degree required and on the other hand reject me like this. I mean, what is a girl supposed to do??? :(