Improve Your Interviewing Skills

The Dallas Morning News in an article on page 1J in its April 4, 2010, issue, “Job Seekers Should Improve Interview Skills” by Amy Winter, Creators Syndicate, listed the following examples of poor interviewing skills:


1. Candidate wore a business suit with flip-flops


2. Candidate asked if the interviewer wanted to meet for a drink after the interview


3. Candidate had applied for an accounting job, yet said he was bad at managing money


4. Candidate ate food in the employee break room after the interview


5. Candidate recited poetry


6. Candidate applying for a customer services job said, ‘I don’t really like working with people’


7. Candidate had to go immediately to get his dog that had gotten loose in the parking lot


8. Candidate looked at the ceiling during the interview


9. Candidate used ‘Dungeons and Dragons’ as an example of teamwork


10. Candidate filed fingernails


I am sure that no readers of this blog have used any of the above actions during a job interview.


Please share any humorous actions that you may have seen exhibited by a job interviewer.


Thanks! Glyn