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March 15, 2008 by Asia | 1 Comment

These are the top ten worst interview gaffes from Reuters.com

• 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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