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Common Mistakes made during Interviews
Originally By Elaine Zinngrabe
- Poor personal appearance.
- Lack of interest and enthusiasm: Passive and indifferent.
- Over emphasis on money: interested only in best dollar offer.
- 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.
- 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 goals.
- Lack of confidence and poise: nervous 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.
- Sloppy application blank.
- Merely shopping around.
- 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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