{"id":1612,"date":"2008-06-12T07:58:25","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T12:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/06\/more-job-interview-bombs\/"},"modified":"2008-06-11T14:59:08","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T19:59:08","slug":"more-job-interview-bombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/06\/more-job-interview-bombs\/","title":{"rendered":"More Job Interview Bombs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2008\/06\/10\/news\/economy\/dumb.interviewees.fortune\/index.htm?section=money_news_economy\">CNNMoney.com offers up the latest story<\/a> about this Springtime topic (must be all of the college grads hitting the interview circuit that gets these stories started).\u00a0 There are some beauties in here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;One job applicant came in for his interview with a cockatoo on his shoulder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had one person who walked out of an interview straight into a glass door. The glass shattered.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The candidate got his companies confused and repeatedly mentioned the strengths of a competing firm, thinking that was who he was interviewing with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A candidate fell asleep during the interview.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fell asleep?\u00a0 I&#8217;m guessing the only way that happens is if the interviewer is doing all the talking.\u00a0 Not a good approach, if that was the case&#8230;still humorous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNNMoney.com offers up the latest story about this Springtime topic (must be all of the college grads hitting the interview circuit that gets these stories started).\u00a0 There are some beauties in here: &#8220;One job applicant came in for his interview with a cockatoo on his shoulder.&#8221; &#8220;We had one person who walked out of an interview straight into a glass door. The glass shattered.&#8221; &#8220;The candidate got his companies confused and repeatedly mentioned the strengths of a competing firm, thinking that was who he was interviewing with.&#8221; &#8220;A candidate fell asleep during the interview.&#8221; Fell asleep?\u00a0 I&#8217;m guessing the only way that happens is if the interviewer is doing all&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/06\/more-job-interview-bombs\/\">Read More<\/a><\/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":[738,758,759],"class_list":["post-1612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdotes","category-interview","tag-interview-blunders","tag-job-interview-errors","tag-job-interview-gaffes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-q0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1480,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/03\/stupid-candidate-tricks\/","url_meta":{"origin":1612,"position":0},"title":"Stupid Candidate Tricks","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"March 24, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"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? 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