Job Interview of Pursuit of Happiness

        Gardner met Jay Twistle while he was selling his scanners. Jay impressed by the skills of Gardner because he solved the Rubik’s cube in the taxi. Gardner developed a good relationship with Jay which paved his way as an intern in Dean Witter Reynolds as a stockbroker. The first challenge he faced before the job interview was regarding the parking tickets. He accumulated a lot of parking tickets, and for this, he got arrested by the police. A night before the meeting he had spent the night in jail. Despite spending the night in jail, he manages to reach the Dean Witter Reynolds office. At the meeting he was wearing shabby clothes and his appearance was not impressive at all. However, Gardner becomes able to impress the interviewers which allowed him to get an unpaid internship in the organization (Price 2011).

        He had to compete with other interns to get paid position in the organization. Although job interview allowed him to become an intern in the organization, it does not end the challenges for Gardner. His wife did not like the decision of Gardner working unpaid as an intern in the company. Finally, his wife left Gardner in the time of financial crises. However, Gardner kept up with the internship and did not lose hope. After passing the test, he becomes a stockbroker in the organization.

Selling his Bone Density Scanners

        Investing his whole life-saving in bone density scanners was not the right decision because it leads to severe financial crises. Gardner did not know how he was going to sell them and while he was figuring out the plan for selling them, his wife left him because of substantial financial crises. If this situation is analyzed critically, then it can be said that the decision of investing all the lifesaving in bone density scanner was not a rational decision at all. If Gardner did not send him all saving, then he might not face severe financial crises. If he wants to invest in the bone density scanner than he should have created the selling plan before purchasing the scanners so that after buying them he could sell them in short period (Economist and Kourdi 2015).

        Through analyzing the situation, it can be said that Gardner did not have a definite selling plan. Gardner did not know how to sell the scanners efficiently, and that becomes the reason for his financial crises. His decision of bone of sale density scanners ruined his personal life; however, he managed to keep up with the situation and worked hard as an intern in the new organization. His dedication and committed allowed him to earn a paid position in the organization. Although Gardner has taken different wrong decisions, he realizes his mistake and covered it with hard work and dedication (Hendry 2012).

References of Pursuit of Happiness

Economist, The, and Jeremy Kourdi. 2015. Business Strategy: A guide to effective decision-making. PublicAffairs.

Hendry, Chris. 2012. Human Resource Management. Routledge.

Price, Alan. 2011. Human Resource Management . Cengage Learning.

Spender, J.-C. 2014. Business Strategy: Managing Uncertainty, Opportunity, and Enterprise. OUP Oxford.