Great Business

"Great Business"*
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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."
Received on Mon Aug 18 07:02:56 2008