<p>DS had previously done a mock interview at the college career center, but that sure didn’t help.</p>
<p>We offered to pay for a professional career counselor to see if he could identify what was going wrong in the interview.</p>
<p>At the initial meeting, they told him that his answers to interview questions were much too long and detailed. The told him that they need to complete but succinct, almost like political sound bites. The said they could work with him on strategies to solve this problem. </p>
<p>They also told him that during the entire mock interview he never smiled. According to these counselors, the ultimate objective of the interview is to get the person on the other side of the table to like you.</p>
<p>DS’s comment was, “so it’s like high school prom king or joining a fraternity, I thought I had gotten beyond that.”</p>
<p>Nope.</p>