Like others I have applied for every position I felt that both my experience and education would make for a good fit. Over the last year I have had 3 phone interviews and 4 face to face structured interviews. To date only one position responded to me formally with a rejection letter. The others, I had to keep looking at the job postings to see if it ever was filled, which they were. For the in-person interviews, all were Structured interviews, which initially, I was not ready for. I seem to have always gotten stuck on the Q: "...disagreement with your boss...". Since that has never occurred to my recollection, I felt that I had to make up a situation. Bottom line I never made it past those interviews..YET!. So now I'm studing all the questions I can find and rehursing each answer in front of others. In each interview the people were very friendly, polite and generally gave me the feeling that they wanted me to succeed. But there was no side bar chit chat, just to the point Q&A.