Just to add to what was well-written above, by -TWF- and YogaApprentice, as well as a few other threads by others about similar topics -
(hard to tell if the Search function of this forum is used- having customed comments is good, but avoiding having the same info repeated…) first luck
So this isn’t mean to contra- but add a perspective (and thus perhaps a choice-aspect of how to approach this)- I find the question of “What-How” I’m seeking to affect in a situation makes a difference: ie
-am I trying to change my appearance/affect (as a Metaphor, not literal, magnetically change my auric presence and thus influence)…
-am I trying to target a specific individual (known decision-maker) or perhaps a group (company/organization: can only affect the individuals in a group en mass? -thus apparently a different lvl of Target-Mind) These 2 seem to be in WorkingModel of Uncle Chucky- Psionics
-perhaps trying to influence/affect/alter (guide?) the probabliities affecting you (in essence, the upstream conditions, so that as the Patterns integrate and dovetail together, certain configs are more likely and others very unlikely)
[thus this would seem to be less about specific criteria but a selection-filtering… like not “controlling the wind” rather “setting the sails”… perhaps tacking into the headwind]
-and other levels... in essence if the Energy you are Sending into the Situation (ie the affect of your Working, whatever kind of Rite it is) is that being sent in a format that will best connect with the target-model?
If the thought is, I want to make a good impression at the interview (a future event? an impression augmented by field-affect of my acquaintance? or Directly have the Interviewer think "Accept me regardless" ... < < often the person one meets is not the "real decisionmaker" > > Many systems seem to mismatch
A greater relevance, if you just want this particular outcome (you having a position at this place that position you know of) one can seek to bring that to pass, VS bringing to you the Best Possible Job-position-paid (contacts, task-skills) etc.
The choice of A vs B could give a different path.
If you choose the first, how might that change the approach you made prior?
If you choose the second, how might that?
Either way- also EA recent newsletter about Divination (before one Influences with a Working- guidance prior to, and After- how did it alter… fdbk)… but consider, what you have willed is being drawn into Experience, and it has not yet arrived for a combo of two Elements: conflicting/unclear Outcome in Energy sent out previously (partly contradictory and confusing what it means… thus it is stuck), and Resistance to it arriving in your current state (how you relate to the Enviro and Expectations- want not want)…
Just in case either of those seem to elicit something in you, I sense in the comments above (and the "coming from" voice in the original post in this thread that feeling). If you look at your original Approach does it appear at all different now? ("If I only knew then what I knew now.." kind of thing)- if go back to the drawingboard, you might see it differently (but mind often thinks since I've already done XYZ, I need to keep going from there- ties in prior context vs releasing limitations and seeing all avail).