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This post from Steven Rothberg over at CollegeRecruiter.com<\/a> had me laughing.\u00a0 Isn’t it amazing how out-of-touch some candidates can be during a phone screen or interview?<\/p>\n

You have to read the other 7 mistakes in the list.\u00a0 Unbelievable…and entertaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post from Steven Rothberg over at CollegeRecruiter.com had me laughing.\u00a0 Isn’t it amazing how out-of-touch some candidates can be during a phone screen or interview? From Steven’s post: Candidate asked the interviewer for a ride home after the interview. Candidate smelled his armpits on the way to the interview room. Candidate said she could not provide a writing sample because all of her writing had been for the CIA and it was “classified.” You have to read the other 7 mistakes in the list.\u00a0 Unbelievable…and entertaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,10],"tags":[1755,456,458,457],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdotes","category-interview","tag-interview","tag-interview-anecdotes","tag-interview-error","tag-interview-mistake"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-nS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":384,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/10\/the-spiderman-interview\/","url_meta":{"origin":1480,"position":0},"title":"The Spiderman Interview","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"October 20, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Ragan Jones writing about bizarre candidate interviews. 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