Tuesday, March 18, 2008

I beat up my last boss

I spotted this article in my news feed reader, listing the top 10 job interview gaffes.

Reading these makes me think I did pretty good in my job interviews.

  • Candidate answered cell phone and asked the interviewer to leave her own office because it was a "private" conversation.

  • Candidate told the interviewer he wouldn't be able to stay with the job long because he thought he might get an inheritance if his uncle died - and his uncle wasn't "looking too good".

  • Candidate asked the interviewer for a ride home after the interview.

  • Candidate smelled his armpits on the way to the interview room.

  • Candidate said she could not provide a writing sample because all of her writing had been for the CIA and it was "classified".

  • Candidate told the interviewer he was fired for beating up his last boss.

  • When an applicant was offered food before the interview, he declined saying he didn't want to line his stomach with grease before going out drinking.

  • A candidate for an accounting position said she was a "people person" not a "numbers person".

  • Candidate took out a hair brush and brushed her hair.
Though there is one that made myself and Worker Bee absolutely splutter. The stupidity - it just blew us away.
  • Candidate flushed the toilet while talking to interviewer during phone interview.
I mean, what?! SERIOUSLY?

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