Impressing an interviewer, especially on technical subjects is largely beyond your control.<p>However, when sizing up a candidate's potential 'cultural fit', hiring managers still tend to hire people they like.<p>Being likeable, that is being friendly-- can go a long way creating a favorable impression. Express a genuine curiosity in the individuals you meet with and what they do, ask intelligent questions, try to find common areas of interest.<p>In sales, they call it rapport building-- it's a practiced skill-- tremendously powerful and underappreciated asset.
I wonder that question too. I think maybe we faced something similar. I want to work abroad. Some corporations in silicon valley like Google. But it's kind of difficult to impress those recruiters through my CV.