How do you know when you "click" with someone?

We've all been there: The awkward date in which both parties try to gauge each other's interest level.

Here's what I've learned from experience, and which I will now teach you:

If you have to work too hard to determine whether your date is interested in you, he or she likely isn't.

The same applies to job interviews. I don't know about you, but I'm usually able to determine whether I have a good shot at landing the job even before I get a call or email from Human Resources.

How? From judging how well the interviewer and I "clicked."

In order to assess whether the date was successful (and if another date is on the horizon), you must answer the following:

How much did my date and I seem to have in common?
Was my date smiling and making contact throughout the evening?
Did my date seem to share at least some of my views?
Did he or she seem eager to leave, or did time just seem to fly for you both?
Was there any mention of doing it again soon?
Did both of us seem to get along well, or was there bickering of some sort?
Was the evening, for the most part, pleasant?

Now, arriving at favorable answers to the above questions does not necessarily indicate that the two of you are destined for marital bliss. And if your responses are not mostly positive, it doesn't portend doom-and-gloom either.

Remember, people probably need to go on at least a couple of dates to be able to decide whether there's potential. Things can take a turn for the worse on Date #2; conversely, you may see a different and better side to your date than you did the first time around.

Let the questions above serve as a general post-date guide to determining how things are shaping up at that given point in time.

Do you agree with the questions listed above? Would you add any to the list?

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