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Great
Business
A survey of
personnel executives at 200 of the Fortune 1,000
companies provided the following unbelievable but
true examples of job applicant behavior.
- "The
reason the candidate was taking so long to
respond to a question became apparent when he
began to snore."
- "When I
asked the candidate to give a good example of
the organizational skills she was boasting
about, she said she was proud of her ability
to pack her suitcase 'real neat' for her
vacations."
- "Why did (the
applicant) go to college?" His reply:
"To party and socialize."
- "When I
gave him my business card at the beginning of
the interview, he immediately crumpled it and
tossed it in the wastebasket."
- "I
received a resume and letter that said that
the recent high-school graduate wanted to
earn $25 an hour-'and not a nickel less.'"
- "(The
applicant) had arranged for a pizza to be
delivered to my office during a lunch-hour
interview. I asked him not to eat it until
later."
- "(The
applicant) said she had just graduated cum
laude, but she had no idea what cum laude
meant. However, she was proud of her grade
point average. It was 2.1."
- "(The
applicant) insisted on telling me that he
wasn't afraid of hard work. But insisted on
adding he was afraid of horses and didn't
like jazz, modern art, or seafood."
- "She
actually showed up for an interview during
the summer wearing a bathing suit. She said
she didn't think I'd mind."
- "He sat
down opposite me, made himself comfortable,
and proceeded to put his foot up on my desk."
- "The
interview had gone well, until he told me
that he and his friends wore my company's
clothing whenever they could. I had to tell
him that we manufactured office products, not
sportswear."
- "(The
applicant) applied for a customer service
position, although, as he confided, he really
wasn't a people person."
- "Without
asking if I minded, he casually lit a cigar
and then tossed the match onto my carpet-and
couldn't understand why I was upset."
- "On the
phone, I had asked the candidate to bring his
resume and a couple of references. He arrived
with the resume-and two people."
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