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I would recommend you practice mindfulness and self-awareness. To the average person with no exposure to these concepts, it sounds like hippy crap, but if you really make the effort to learn and practice basic mindfulness concepts, you will see exactly what went wrong with your entire situation (start to finish). ​ You begin by stating that your initial interview (which I presume to be over the phone) was fluent. This already tells me that you associate fluency with a successful interview and your mind has been programmed to this correlation. You seem to feel accomplished from having a fluent initial interview, but the second interview in which you stutter, you phrase as a bombshell and utter disaster. You already have a very unhealthy outlook on stuttering for yourself. This is not me judging you, this is me pretending I'm in your shoes and being mindful of your perception and reactions given your experiences. Given your correlation to fluency=success, I can tell you must have really shown poor body language and nervousness in your second interview despite you thinking that your stutter was the pitfall there. You need to realize YOU CAN STUTTER WITHOUT APPEARING TO BE NERVOUS/DEFEATED. I can guarantee this is the reasoning behind your slump and outlook. Trust me bud, I've gone through the same thing and now I am excelling in the job hunt. ​ Look into this, it doesn't really hurt. You can kill yourself over setting up the perfect scenario where you are fluent, but what happens when you land the job and your boss sees you stutter? Let go off this facade and release this unnecessary tension and stress. Just stutter, but do it confidently. As someone below has stated: 1. Maintain strong and confident eye contact 2. Dress and groom yourself well 3. Confident posture and friendly/welcoming body language 4. When/if you stutter do not look at the floor or away. Simply smile, take a deep breath and no matter how long it takes just be light on your tongue and keep trying to get it out 5. Always disclose at the start of your interview (This is my personal rule and I have found the most success with it). ​ Good luck. Keep your head up and conceptualize your success and make it happen.