Casual Dress Friday: the armpit sniff and other interview gaffes
Posted on March 28, 2008
Filed Under Casual Dress Fridays
Good friend of Career Waymark, Cap’n Schwartz sent me a great piece last week. I thought it would make a great topic for today’s post. Below are the highlights, for the full list click here. Enjoy!
- 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.
Have a great weekend!
Until next time…
Steven Wright has a funny bit about going into an interview for a job once…
He said he was reading a book on rocket velocity when the interviewer came in and asked him what he was doing, he replied with “Let me ask you a question… If you were able to drive your car at the speed of light in outer space and you turned on your headlights,… what would happen?”
The interviewer replied with “Gee, I don’t know”, to which Steven then closed the book, stood up and said “Well then I couldnt possibly work for you” and walked out…
=)