“Cut off your dreads,” Oswaldo told him. “Get a suit that fits right, that’s not all baggy and hip-hop. Make eye contact. Don’t mumble, don’t swear, don’t talk around the topic. Act interested.” “What does that mean?” “When you’re not one hundred percent into something, you have a tendency to act above it all. Don’t do that. Interviewers can tell, and it pisses them off.”
