Posts Tagged ‘Job Interview’
What’s Your Saddest-But-Can-Now-Laugh-At Red-Flag Story?
Miriam Salpeter, my partner for “Land Your Dream Job” and I were talking about some of the “horror” stories from her recruiter friends about major faux pas that candidates have done in interviews (such as calling their previous boss an insane a$$hole). She recently wrote a post on her blog about Red Flags and not ignoring them. It’s tough in this economic climate when all the news is bad, and I’m not looking at your mortgage statement. That said, it has been both of our experiences (which again, aren’t your experiences) that most people who ignore the “red flags” end up regretting it.
Why can’t job interviews be honest dialog?
Wouldn’t it be refreshing?
These days job interviews resemble this weird, parallel, Stepford-wives-ish universe in which everyone is perfectly groomed and smiling. Let’s play a game of interview tennis.

Photo by Brian Liloia
The interviewer serves the ball: “Tell me about yourself.”
The well-prepared candidate slams it the ball just inside the right corner with a well-prepared two minute commercial about all things relevant to the job. The score is love-love





