What kind of education does it take to be a professional matchmaker?
Well, I actually helped establish something called the Matchmaking Institute where we train and certify matchmakers around the world. I created that because I think that people have really strong skills that can lead into matchmaking. Strong skills which could be either in human resources or in business or in social work or in teaching. There are aspects of what we are already doing in our everyday life that could lend itself to areas of matchmaking. What we do at the Matchmaking Institute is really sort of work on the areas of strength and the areas of weaknesses to really put people into a career of matchmaking. I think you really have to have the excitement and the joy of the romantic field, of providing relationship advice and helping people find love and being patient with them and being excited about figuring out who would make a good match for who. So there's no traditional training in the past that says OK, you have to be a social worker to be successful as a matchmaker, but I think it really helps to have a sense of the industry and that's what the Matchmaking Institute brings to this.
