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A funny interview story:
About three decades ago, I had give two weeks notice at my job as Assistant Manager at the 'Golden Arches' and heard about a job as a Route Supervisor for a dairy. I had managed to get my hands on an application form, added a (short) resume and planned to drop it off Thursday AM before I went into work. (I still had four days to finish out)

That morning, bad news: flat tire and one more on the 'spare'. Since the car needed winter tires anyway and there was a tire store a couple of miles away, I took the two flats, strapped them to a backpack frame and walked to the store, waited for them to change one, humped it home and drove to the store for the second.
By now, as you might guess, I'm dirty (brake dust) and sweaty and thinking about the other things I have to do today, so I drove to the dairy to drop off the application & resume. To my horror, the guy at the loading dock said "The Boss wants to see you."
Nothing for it but to go in looking like crap. Once the guy got over the shock of my appearance, we ended up talking for about an hour about the hands-on parts of the job. He was looking for a fellow with management experience who wasn't afraid to get his hands dirty. (Boy oh boy had he found one!) When I walked out, I knew I had the job. I worked there for close to 25 years.

Your attitude is SO important. Good advice above. Find out about the company you want to work for and be prepared to talk about how you see your strengths going to work for them.
When I iterviewed someone, that's what I needed to know.

Good luck
Les