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	Interview Mistakes

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1-4-2009 9:23 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/969ae601-228f-43e3-a120-8fc5d0aa9cf1/E69C70A4-AC0E-4DA1-BD2F-8BB9882D9245/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://nothired.com/2008/03/26/397/" href="http://nothired.com/2008/03/26/397/" style="font-size: 11px;">nothired.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nothired.com/2008/03/26/397/">According to several sites on the net (<EM>i.e., possibly apocryphal</EM>) 
personnel executives of 100 major American corporations were asked for stories 
of unusual behavior by job applicants:</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nothired.com/2008/03/26/397/">
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Said he was so well qualified [that] if he didn’t get the job, it would 
prove that the company’s management was incompetent. 
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Stretched out on the floor to fill out the job application. 
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Brought her large dog to the interview. 
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Chewed bubble gum and constantly blew bubbles. 
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Candidate kept giggling through serious interview. 
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">She wore a Walkman and said she could listen to the music and me at the same 
time. 
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Balding candidate abruptly excused himself. Returned to office a few minutes 
later wearing a hairpiece. 
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Applicant challenged interviewer to arm wrestle. 
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Asked to see interviewer’s resume to see if the personnel executive was 
qualified to judge the candidate. 
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Announced she hadn’t had lunch and proceeded to eat a hamburger and French 
fries in the interviewer’s office. </LI></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E69C70A4-AC0E-4DA1-BD2F-8BB9882D9245/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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