During an interview, what can give you equal footing with other candidates that have more experience and/or skills? Can demonstrating good customer service, communication, teamwork, life long learning, patience, enthusiasm, and good attitude and other skills and traits help you compete against better qualified candidates. I realize the best advice is to get the skills you need for the job, but in the current market there are lots of over qualified candidates going for lesser jobs…meaning that you may be competing with system admins for tier I help desk jobs. Any advice?