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Common Job Interview Mistakes:
  • Poor or casual personal appearance.
  • Lack of interest and enthusiasm; passive and indifferent.
  • Over emphasis on money; interested only in best dollar offer, benefits, hours and vacation.
  • Condemnation of past employers.
  • Failure to look at the interviewer when conversing.
  • Limp, fishy handshake.
  • Unwillingness to go where sent.
  • Late to interview.
  • Failure to express appreciation for interviewer's time.
  • Asks no questions about job or company.
  • Indefinite response to questions.
  • Overbearing, over aggressive, conceited with superiority or "know it all complex."
  • Inability to express self clearly; poor voice diction, grammar.
  • Lack of planning for career; no purpose and/or goals.
  • Lack of confidence and poise; nervous and ill at ease.
  • Failure to participate in activities.
  • Unwilling to start at the bottom; expects too much too soon.
  • Makes excuses, evasive, hedges on unfavorable factors in record.
  • Lack of tact.
  • Lack of courtesy; ill mannered.
  • Lack of maturity.
  • Lack of vitality.
  • Indecision and hesitation.
  • Sloppy application, not fully completed or putting "see resume."
  • Merely shopping around seeking a counter offer.
  • Wants job for short time.
  • No interest in company or industry.
  • Low moral standards.
  • Cynical.
  • Lazy.
  • Intolerant; strong prejudices.
  • Narrow interests.
  • Inability to take criticism.
  • High pressure type.


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