How to successfully pass any job interview

The writer

I would like to tell you a little bit about myself before we venture into the knowledge you will learn about how to be successful in interviewing.

Over the years, particularly since I started looking for work, I have been thinking about creating an inspirational figure so that I can allow myself to be able to walk two different paths that separate my professional and private life. I live near Chicago.

My dream was to study Psychology at Harvard but my family didn't have the financial possibilities and I couldn't get a scholarship since I was never top of the class but had a library of dreams that I wanted to achieve. And so, after school, I looked for a job to support myself while pursuing my passions. One of the first interviews I had was as a call center for a phone company but my aspirations were other.

As the years went by I was finally able to enroll in college (but not Harvard) and began to study people. I bought a lot of books and read a lot about how to develop important skills to use while in public contact, how to handle a conversation, how to understand people and help them bring out the best in them. So I decided to start spending my time getting to know people. Shortly before he got sick and died, my uncle ran a bar on Clinton Street in downtown Chicago. Since I was not working I thought it might be a great opportunity to spend part of my days in the bar observing people coming in and out and getting to know them. It seemed like an interesting topic to discuss at my thesis.

Within a month I knew about 10 people but only with 4 of them was I able to become fully acquainted, perhaps because they were regular customers of my uncle. The others were often just passing through; today you saw them, tomorrow you wouldn't. And of these 10 people 5 were business people. The kinds of conversations I engaged in with those people helped me improve on how to converse with people, how to know how to be persuasive, and how to give them reasonable and focused advice. Within 6 months, at my uncle's bar, I knew, without exaggeration, about 100 people. My skills in establishing conversations and knowing how to manage the time I devoted to each of them allowed me to get to know many more people while devoting less time to them. Yet with all of them I used the same method: smile, friendliness and self-interest. Yes, when you smile you use the key to open the person's front door. After the smile I would act as a friend and when I studied their behavioral and character traits I would look for directions for effective conversation. And this I found easier and