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1. Texted mom during the interview.
Oh god, I have a million. Most recent was a guy who
filled out his application via texts from his mother. He
would take a picture of the question on the app and she
would text him back the answer. He took an hour to fill
out a two page basic application.
2. Put “statutory” on the application.
I managed a smoke shop in college, and had a guy come
in to apply for a job shirtless. As he filled out his
application, he proceeded to ask me how to spell
“statutory.”
3. Inappropriate work attire.
I saw a guy during his first week of training wearing
jeans with air brushed on strippers.
He was told to go home.
4. Took a call during the interview.
Mine isn’t that bad, but I was interviewing a woman once
whose phone went off during the middle of the interview.
She grabs for it, so I assume she’ll just silence it and
continue. Instead, she answers it and goes on to talk to her
friend for about 3 minutes about random stuff (aka – not
an emergency) before saying that she has to go because
she’s in an interview.
Needless to say, she didn’t get the job.
5. A flatulent applicant.
Me: What’s one of your weaknesses?
Him: Well. Sometimes after lunch, I can get a little gassy.
6. A proselytizing applicant.
After a nice hour-long interview with one of the best
candidates, he asked if he could speak with us for a
moment about the lord. This guy wanted to recruit us to
be JW.
7. Wrong answer to “give me an example
of a time you went out of your comfort
zone.”
During an interview we asked the candidate for an
example of when they had to do something, which was
out of their comfort zone. She replied with “On a night
out last year I drank way too many shots and had to have
my stomach pumped. That was really uncomfortable.”
8. A skanky applicant.
I was once asked by a very attractive female if there was
anything I (HR) could do to help her get the job. I’m pug
fugly, so she must have been pretty desperate.
9. Wrong answer to “what do you like
about the Internet?”
Coworker of mine was interviewing a junior developer
for a job writing web performance testing code. To gauge
the dude’s interest in the field, my coworker asked what
the guy liked most about the Internet. The guy said
“porn.” Then he realized what he had said, panicked, and
asked my coworker not to tell anyone he had said that.
I mean, it’s the right answer, but not in that context. He
didn’t get the job.
10. A less-than-enthused applicant.
I had a guy show up in a t-shirt and jeans to a developer
interview. He didn’t look as if he had showered, wasn’t
nervous at all, knew barely any coding, and said he
couldn’t start for a month because he and his band were
going on tour. We didn’t hire him.
11. A stoned applicant.
In high school, one of my girlfriends went in for a job at
Ralphs, when asked why she wanted to work there, she
responded (stoned), “I like food.” She was hired and came
to be known as food girl.
12. Lost in translation.
One of my favorite moments came when I was
interviewing someone for whom English was not his
native language, and I think something got lost a bit in the
translation.
I asked a required question of the job: “Are you able to
lift 30 pounds unassisted?”
His reply: “Yes…I am a man.”
It was difficult to keep a straight face after that one.
13. Odd sartorial choice.
I’m not an HR person, but the other day someone came in
to my department for an interview wearing a zoot suit. I
didn’t even know those were still available to buy.
14. Talked poorly of his former boss.
I work at an investment firm where we train new financial
advisors coming in from a different industry. In the first
interview I asked, “Tell me what you’re doing now?” and
he launched into a 10 minute tirade (I had to stop him)
about how his evil boss at taco bell framed him for giving
nacho’s to his friend. Didn’t make the second interview.
15. Wrong answer to “greatest
weakness?”
During a job interview one time I said, “I love children.”
That’s usually a good thing to say, except the question
was “What’s your greatest weakness?”
16. A terrifying interview.
I was a fairly inexperienced manager interviewing a very
normal middle-aged guy for a blue-collar position when
this happened:
Me: I see there is a gap of several years here in your job
experience. Can you tell me what that’s about?
Him: Yes I was serving a 5-year prison sentence
Me: sitting in awkward stunned silence trying figure out
what to say next
Him: I was convicted of raping my daughter
Me: feeling a million times more awkward and wondering
how the heck this guy got past HR
Me: OkIthinkIamdonenow.
LetmetakeyoubacktotheHRmanager.
I don’t know if he felt we would find out anyway so why
not just fess up or if he was kind of crazy.
17. An applicant with little experience.
We asked a lady who had come to interview for a position
as a teacher’s assistant what her experience was. She
replied “well I used to be a child, so I do know about
them.”
18. A brutally honest applicant.
Me: “How is your relation to alcohol? Do you drink?”
Applicant: “Good! Yeah I drink, but not cause I think it
tastes good, only to get drunk.”
Guy didn’t flinch. He was completely honest. I gave him
the job.
19. Recited lines from a movie.
I was interviewing college freshmen for a programming
position. One of my last questions was “Could you tell me
a time when you were forced to work in a group with
people you didn’t know, and how you got along with
them?” The girl recited the plot of Mean Girls perfectly.
20. An applicant who clearly didn’t even
want to be there.
I have a pile of resumes that I keep because they are
absolutely hilarious. I can’t believe someone would send
something like that to a company and expect to get hired.
I wish I could forward them to the unemployment agency
and say “stop paying this guy, he’s not trying.”
I had one guy show up with a hat on, and big leather
jacket with skulls, and jeans with patches of all the NBA
teams (I work in a pretty formal environment). He sat
slumped in his chair and would barely answer any
questions. The whole time he was acting like I was
wasting his time interviewing him. I cut it short
obviously. Last time I interview someone without a phone
interview first because of a “recommendation.”
21. An applicant with ulterior motives.
I used to work for a salon over by IVC and I hired this
college girl as a receptionist. Things went well for about
three months when one day she never showed up. Turns
out the only reason she applied was because she thought I
was cute and when I didn’t pick up on her advances she
quit. I really am oblivious.
22. A thumb-sucking applicant.
Last year, I went to a job fair at a local college to tell
people about the internship at my office. A young lady
stops at my table, asks what kind of jobs I have available,
and hands me her resume. I look down to skim her
resume. When I look back up, she has her thumb in her
mouth.
I asked her about her major, her previous jobs, her
availability, and she answered all my questions while she
sucked her thumb. Sad thing is, other than that, she was
probably the most qualified person I saw all day.
23. Received a bill from an applicant.
I was interviewing a software engineer. The interview
went ok, nothing wrong but the guy just wasn’t great. He
called multiple times over the next two weeks until we
made our decision, which was someone other than him.
Upon learning this he got pissed and sent us a bill for his
time during the interview.
24. Wrong answer to “give me an
example of a time you had to resolve a
conflict.”
Me: tell me about a time you have had to resolve a
conflict Interviewee: A guy tried to start a fight with me
last Friday, so I knocked his teeth out.
25. An applicant with “rape” on his
resume.
I used to work at a record store. I wasn’t a manager, but I
would sometimes get to see the applications people
dropped off. One of the questions on the applications was
“what kind of music do you like,” or something like that.
This particular applier wrote, “I like rock, metal, and
rape.”
26. Wrong answer to “what kind of
animal would you like to be?”
A co-worker and I were interviewing applicants and my
co-worker asked what kind of animal they’d like to be.
The applicant said a cat, because they’re sneaky and can
get away with stuff.
27. A desperate applicant.
I once interviewed a woman who kept flirting with me,
touching me, telling me how she was willing to anything
for this job, wink wink, etc. She was sort of attractive, but
I sure as hell wasn’t interested. Then came the clincher:
Me: “What made you leave your previous position?”
Her: “My boss fired me because I gave him herpes.”
28. A guy who showed up looking like an
idiot.
Interviewed a guy who showed up in a rock t-shirt and
had goggles on his head. He smelled so bad we had to cut
the interview short.
29. Applicant with a shady past.
We interviewed a woman for an office manager position
who was being real cagey about her past. She mentioned
that she ran a certain website but wouldn’t say the name.
Using some of the tidbits from the interview and the
Google we found out that she was actually a hard-core
porn star (and failed to mention that on her resume).
Whoops.
30. An applicant with an inappropriate
email address.
She never got to an interview, but I worked for a psych
office and we had a job applicant apply from the email
address (similar to) slut_bunny_69@hotmail.com. I told
the office manager I wouldn’t even consider working with
someone who used hotmail. Source: thoughtcatalog.com/charlie-shaw/2014/02/30-hr-managers-reveal-their-worst-experience-while-interviewing-a-job-applicant/

lost in translation. No blame d bros.

Tazmode: lost in translation. No blame d bros.

bro, u funny oh

funny interviews.

but am sure these survey was in America or Europe, coz i just dont see any graduate messing up an interview with a chevron or GTbank or Glo in nigeria like that.

all the same good learning points

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1. Texted mom during the interview.
Oh god, I have a million. Most recent was a guy who
filled out his application via texts from his mother. He
would take a picture of the question on the app and she
would text him back the answer. He took an hour to fill
out a two page basic application.
2. Put “statutory” on the application.
I managed a smoke shop in college, and had a guy come
in to apply for a job shirtless. As he filled out his
application, he proceeded to ask me how to spell
“statutory.”
3. Inappropriate work attire.
I saw a guy during his first week of training wearing
jeans with air brushed on strippers.
He was told to go home.
4. Took a call during the interview.
Mine isn’t that bad, but I was interviewing a woman once
whose phone went off during the middle of the interview.
She grabs for it, so I assume she’ll just silence it and
continue. Instead, she answers it and goes on to talk to her
friend for about 3 minutes about random stuff (aka – not
an emergency) before saying that she has to go because
she’s in an interview.
Needless to say, she didn’t get the job.
5. A flatulent applicant.
Me: What’s one of your weaknesses?
Him: Well. Sometimes after lunch, I can get a little gassy.
6. A proselytizing applicant.
After a nice hour-long interview with one of the best
candidates, he asked if he could speak with us for a
moment about the lord. This guy wanted to recruit us to
be JW.
7. Wrong answer to “give me an example
of a time you went out of your comfort
zone.”
During an interview we asked the candidate for an
example of when they had to do something, which was
out of their comfort zone. She replied with “On a night
out last year I drank way too many shots and had to have
my stomach pumped. That was really uncomfortable.”
8. A skanky applicant.
I was once asked by a very attractive female if there was
anything I (HR) could do to help her get the job. I’m pug
fugly, so she must have been pretty desperate.
9. Wrong answer to “what do you like
about the Internet?”
Coworker of mine was interviewing a junior developer
for a job writing web performance testing code. To gauge
the dude’s interest in the field, my coworker asked what
the guy liked most about the Internet. The guy said
“porn.” Then he realized what he had said, panicked, and
asked my coworker not to tell anyone he had said that.
I mean, it’s the right answer, but not in that context. He
didn’t get the job.
10. A less-than-enthused applicant.
I had a guy show up in a t-shirt and jeans to a developer
interview. He didn’t look as if he had showered, wasn’t
nervous at all, knew barely any coding, and said he
couldn’t start for a month because he and his band were
going on tour. We didn’t hire him.
11. A stoned applicant.
In high school, one of my girlfriends went in for a job at
Ralphs, when asked why she wanted to work there, she
responded (stoned), “I like food.” She was hired and came
to be known as food girl.
12. Lost in translation.
One of my favorite moments came when I was
interviewing someone for whom English was not his
native language, and I think something got lost a bit in the
translation.
I asked a required question of the job: “Are you able to
lift 30 pounds unassisted?”
His reply: “Yes…I am a man.”
It was difficult to keep a straight face after that one.
13. Odd sartorial choice.
I’m not an HR person, but the other day someone came in
to my department for an interview wearing a zoot suit. I
didn’t even know those were still available to buy.
14. Talked poorly of his former boss.
I work at an investment firm where we train new financial
advisors coming in from a different industry. In the first
interview I asked, “Tell me what you’re doing now?” and
he launched into a 10 minute tirade (I had to stop him)
about how his evil boss at taco bell framed him for giving
nacho’s to his friend. Didn’t make the second interview.
15. Wrong answer to “greatest
weakness?”
During a job interview one time I said, “I love children.”
That’s usually a good thing to say, except the question
was “What’s your greatest weakness?”
16. A terrifying interview.
I was a fairly inexperienced manager interviewing a very
normal middle-aged guy for a blue-collar position when
this happened:
Me: I see there is a gap of several years here in your job
experience. Can you tell me what that’s about?
Him: Yes I was serving a 5-year prison sentence
Me: sitting in awkward stunned silence trying figure out
what to say next
Him: I was convicted of raping my daughter
Me: feeling a million times more awkward and wondering
how the heck this guy got past HR
Me: OkIthinkIamdonenow.
LetmetakeyoubacktotheHRmanager.
I don’t know if he felt we would find out anyway so why
not just fess up or if he was kind of crazy.
17. An applicant with little experience.
We asked a lady who had come to interview for a position
as a teacher’s assistant what her experience was. She
replied “well I used to be a child, so I do know about
them.”
18. A brutally honest applicant.
Me: “How is your relation to alcohol? Do you drink?”
Applicant: “Good! Yeah I drink, but not cause I think it
tastes good, only to get drunk.”
Guy didn’t flinch. He was completely honest. I gave him
the job.
19. Recited lines from a movie.
I was interviewing college freshmen for a programming
position. One of my last questions was “Could you tell me
a time when you were forced to work in a group with
people you didn’t know, and how you got along with
them?” The girl recited the plot of Mean Girls perfectly.
20. An applicant who clearly didn’t even
want to be there.
I have a pile of resumes that I keep because they are
absolutely hilarious. I can’t believe someone would send
something like that to a company and expect to get hired.
I wish I could forward them to the unemployment agency
and say “stop paying this guy, he’s not trying.”
I had one guy show up with a hat on, and big leather
jacket with skulls, and jeans with patches of all the NBA
teams (I work in a pretty formal environment). He sat
slumped in his chair and would barely answer any
questions. The whole time he was acting like I was
wasting his time interviewing him. I cut it short
obviously. Last time I interview someone without a phone
interview first because of a “recommendation.”
21. An applicant with ulterior motives.
I used to work for a salon over by IVC and I hired this
college girl as a receptionist. Things went well for about
three months when one day she never showed up. Turns
out the only reason she applied was because she thought I
was cute and when I didn’t pick up on her advances she
quit. I really am oblivious.
22. A thumb-sucking applicant.
Last year, I went to a job fair at a local college to tell
people about the internship at my office. A young lady
stops at my table, asks what kind of jobs I have available,
and hands me her resume. I look down to skim her
resume. When I look back up, she has her thumb in her
mouth.
I asked her about her major, her previous jobs, her
availability, and she answered all my questions while she
sucked her thumb. Sad thing is, other than that, she was
probably the most qualified person I saw all day.
23. Received a bill from an applicant.
I was interviewing a software engineer. The interview
went ok, nothing wrong but the guy just wasn’t great. He
called multiple times over the next two weeks until we
made our decision, which was someone other than him.
Upon learning this he got pissed and sent us a bill for his
time during the interview.
24. Wrong answer to “give me an
example of a time you had to resolve a
conflict.”
Me: tell me about a time you have had to resolve a
conflict Interviewee: A guy tried to start a fight with me
last Friday, so I knocked his teeth out.
25. An applicant with “rape” on his
resume.
I used to work at a record store. I wasn’t a manager, but I
would sometimes get to see the applications people
dropped off. One of the questions on the applications was
“what kind of music do you like,” or something like that.
This particular applier wrote, “I like rock, metal, and
rape.”
26. Wrong answer to “what kind of
animal would you like to be?”
A co-worker and I were interviewing applicants and my
co-worker asked what kind of animal they’d like to be.
The applicant said a cat, because they’re sneaky and can
get away with stuff.
27. A desperate applicant.
I once interviewed a woman who kept flirting with me,
touching me, telling me how she was willing to anything
for this job, wink wink, etc. She was sort of attractive, but
I sure as hell wasn’t interested. Then came the clincher:
Me: “What made you leave your previous position?”
Her: “My boss fired me because I gave him herpes.”
28. A guy who showed up looking like an
idiot.
Interviewed a guy who showed up in a rock t-shirt and
had goggles on his head. He smelled so bad we had to cut
the interview short.
29. Applicant with a shady past.
We interviewed a woman for an office manager position
who was being real cagey about her past. She mentioned
that she ran a certain website but wouldn’t say the name.
Using some of the tidbits from the interview and the
Google we found out that she was actually a hard-core
porn star (and failed to mention that on her resume).
Whoops.
30. An applicant with an inappropriate
email address.
She never got to an interview, but I worked for a psych
office and we had a job applicant apply from the email
address (similar to) slut_bunny_69@hotmail.com. I told
the office manager I wouldn’t even consider working with
someone who used hotmail. Source: thoughtcatalog.com/charlie-shaw/2014/02/30-hr-managers-reveal-their-worst-experience-while-interviewing-a-job-applicant/

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Interesting stuff there.

You can't blame dem, they sit at home and get paid, they don't have to worry about food, parents,gf or siblings.

daywalker12911: You can't blame dem, they sit at home and get paid, they don't have to worry about food, parents,gf or siblings.

LOL, but funny enough we still have the same tin happening in our nation.

No 4, took a call at an interview is so funny. ..The woman had guts shaa

Very funny