TEN Worst Things To Say In A Job Interview: HILARIOUS!
March 20, 2012
Interviews Can Make Knees Knock. Just Don't Say TOO Much.
You will not be whole unless you read this entire thing. Just make sure YOU don’t make any of these mistakes, and share these hilarious errors in judgment over dinner conversation!
1-“Sorry I’m late, my husband and I were fighting. It happens all the time.”
One individual arrived 20 minutes late for her interview,” says Lisa Chenofsky Singer, an executive and career management coach based in New Jersey. While the pair walked to grab the candidate a cup of water, Chenofsky Singer asked how the commute had been. “She in turn told me that her commute was horrid, and she and her husband had fought on who was responsible for dropping their child off at day care,” she explains. “I followed up with ‘Is this a typical morning?’ She replied that this is why she lost her last job, and continued on to tell me that the company had no respect for families.”
2-“I’m in anger management because I hit a former co-worker.”
“I’ve had candidates share with me their anger management problems, views on gender, age, and other things that can be damaging in an interview,” says Shilonda Downing, owner of Virtual Work Team, which helps business owners find remote workers. “One candidate recently mentioned that he was going through anger management for hitting a co-worker in corporate America, and that is why he would like to work from home going forward.”
3-“Well you’re cute, too.”
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“There was a man who asked the junior recruiter interviewing him out on a date during the interview,” says Winnie Anderson, a former recruiter for the casino gaming industry. “She excused herself somehow and came into my office to tell me about it. She was really flustered.” Anderson asked the applicant into her office, as the fellow’s original interviewer was too uncomfortable to continue herself. “I then proceeded to thank him for coming in, and explained we wouldn’t be able to consider him for a position because he had asked Jane out and that was inappropriate conduct in an interview,” she says. “He then said, ‘Well you’re cute, too.’ I said he could go now.”
4- “My old boss was a monster, and it’s really scarred me emotionally.”
“I have a client I was working with who exited from a very difficult situation at work, where she had worked for someone who was really a monster,” Cohen says. “The feelings were so very raw about working for this individual, and she truly felt that she had been treated unfairly when she was dismissed.” Whether or not that was the case, Cohen says, she shouldn’t have been focusing on something the interviewer doesn’t need to hear about.
Disagreements between managers and their lieutenants are common, but knowing that an employee was scarred by a bad relationship with their supervisor doesn’t reflect positively on the job applicant. “When interviewers meet candidates, they’re not psychotherapists. They don’t want to know the deep dark secrets you might be hiding, they just want to know that you can do the job, that you’re basically sane and that you’ll fit in,” Cohen says.
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Read on…this is just a sample. There is much more written about each comment. What is amazing is how we don’t always recognize HOW our remarks are PERCEIVED in a job interview! Get informed!
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