I’m sorry to hear you didn’t get the job you’d sought. There will be others, try not to be downhearted. You have to pick yourself up and find the next opportunity.

In your situation, all you can do is to continue to defend yourself. Are you in a particularly specialist role in your company, where you’re the only one who can carry out your role? If that’s the case, and you have no support or equivalent colleague to bounce ideas off and seek support, then that’s tricky position to find yourself in.

Jeff.