It's difficult not to get mentally carried away when you secure a job interview. To envision the potential future, actually getting the job and all the differences it may make to your day-to-day life. The exciting things you could do if given the scope and responsibility, and authority. How it, and the new people you'd work with might change things: attitudes, outlooks, personality, character.
Yet it can all hinge on a single person. The one person who you engage with in a preliminary vetting interview. The person the successful applicant will report to. Your relationship with them is critical. If first impressions are bad - and initial, instinctive ones are often the strongest which we can't help but lead with - then everything changes.
This person who appears distracted, cold, straight, uptight and doesn't even attempt small talk - you think you can work with her day-to-day? Reckon she'll be open to new ideas or just want to fit you as a cog into her wheel?
Oh dear. All premature hopes of change and predictions of brilliant new difference are suddenly slashed and punctured. Hope hisses out and you wither back to square one.
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