Instant Interviews: 101 Ways to Get the Best Job of Your Life

Chapter 80. Bonding Instantly with Immigrant Offerors

Instant interviewing is immigrant interviewing.

We instant all over. We deal with what is.

You'll meet offerors from another country every day. Many are very successful. Many more want born-here U.S. citizens at the front of the business. If you're one, you qualify.

Successful immigrants know what you know—people like people who are like them. One either whines or one works. That's the way the workingworld works in any language.

There's another reason even more compelling—and troubling. Immigrants are not usually treated very well. Those who succeed in spite of language, racial, or custom barriers are extraordinary. They overreact to kindness.

So bond with them like this.

Welcome an Instant Clue

If you see a foreign language newspaper or a religious symbol, check yourself. What was your instant reaction?

It was probably something like, "This place isn't for me," or "Why do they have to impose their beliefs on everyone else?"

Not so fast.

Hear yourself. You're instigating internal instant intimidation. Externally, there's just no issue here.

Think more than positively—think possibility, as my friend mega-author Wayne Dyer would say.

If you do, you'll be thinking probably before you finish the Magic Four Goodbye (Do 1).

How about if you hear a foreign language?

You might think a thought like, "They shouldn't let employees talk so nobody else understands," or "They're taking over!"

That's the wrong thought.

A great way to forcibly wrench your thinking ...