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Make the cut?

If you follow the game of pro golf for example, you’ll never have a problem with “make the cut”, or for that matter, “miss the cut”.

You may have a problem with it in the beginning, of course, which is as it should be but not for long. That is because in every report on every golf tournament, “making or miss the cut” is seen. In every tournament, some players make the cut while others don’t.

The game of golf, by the way, is played in four rounds, the first two being preliminaries, meaning only players with the best scores advancing to the second half, the third and fourth rounds.

A total of 120 players may have entered a tournament, for instance. But only 30 players are going to play in the second half, i.e. only the top thirty scores after the first two rounds “make the cut”. The rest, who are described as either “missed the cut”, or “failed to make the cut,” pack and go home.

For example, Tiger Woods, the best golf player in this young century and one of the best – if not the best – of all time, failed to make the cut at the Quail Hollow Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina, in April, 2010.

That was big news because he shot a 79 in the second round, “his worst score on American soil as a pro and the second-highest of his career”, as AP reported. “His 36-hole score of 153 was the highest in his 14 years on the PGA tour.”

I use Tiger’s example to illustrate that even the best sometimes fail. All you need to do is ask the employer why they did not want you and move on. That particular employer may have the guts or they may not have the guts to tell you exactly what failed you. Either way, move on. Improve yourself and do a better job at the next interview. If you keep working on your game, so to speak, you’ll make it one way or the other. And you won’t mind having failed to make the cut on that particular occasion.