Be qualified and act as though you are ready to work for that particular company. If you are not presently qualified, show that you are training or ready to be trained. Learn about where you are applying. Is it family owned? Is it a new company? Do not approach an interview with the attitude that ‘they’ owe you a job because you happen to want one that day. Do not talk negatively about a former employer.
Be as truthful as possible, but be clear and brief.
Act as though you are able to listen to others and learn without taking every correction as a personal slight. Act, dress and sound as though you want to be there, not as though you are job hunting to keep your unemployment bennies coming in.
I.e. on your own power buck everything you took in with your mother’s milk.
Then we wonder why we hear complaints of “white privilege.” Until white folks who understand that just because a black guy talks a little dish he won’t also be able to be coached into their best ally take the fore, the beat will go on.
Ah the double negatives.
AA was supposed to be an intelligent outreach. But nobody had any real insight about how to do it. It was like mixing oil and water without benefit of emulsifier.
“... that doesn’t mean he won’t ...”
The gospel of old used to serve as that kind of mixing agent. Now we hear a lot of braying about how the country is “Christian” — with little if any earnest embrace of actual Jesus. God has a right to be disappointed.