I am a bit careful about how I look for opportunities these days -- which trees I shake. If any of the several networks of folks who've gone up against me in the past decided to be marginally less evil for a brief moment, I could find myself entering a world with an ordained outcome -- "things bad begun..."
So I emphasize the formal aspects of the qualification and experience--so many degrees, so many courses, so many years of experience of practice at a certain level. But, as I've increasingly discovered, the present order of things relies much less on the way things are than what happens when you talk to people.
(As strange as that might sound, if you paraphrsed it out, you might reach the essence of the problem.)
Skipped the AM run to nurse a bit of a twinge through the weekend. Onward.