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They may sound like jokes but these are two of the top
10 gaffes to
feature in an annual survey of the most outrageous interview mistakes
by candidates compiled by online job site CareerBuilder.com.
The list, based on a survey of 3,061 U.S. hiring
managers and human
resources professionals by research company Harris Interactive, found
the top 10 most outrageous mistakes were:
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- - 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 flushed the toilet while talking to
interviewer during phone interview.
- - Candidate took out a hair brush and brushed her
hair.
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I was
interviewing out of my Buffalo, NY hotel room, and the applicant
was a very attractive, long legged, mini-skirted young lady. She
took her seat very much in the fashion of Sharon Stone's famous
recline. Alarm bells sounding, I excused myself, went out to the
hall and paid a room maid $10 to stand by my opened room door for the
duration of the interview - which did not last very long. I mean, you
gotta wonder.
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