{"id":255,"date":"2006-08-24T16:39:26","date_gmt":"2006-08-24T21:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=255"},"modified":"2006-08-24T16:40:15","modified_gmt":"2006-08-24T21:40:15","slug":"interview-blunders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/08\/interview-blunders\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview Blunders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.careerjournal.com\/jobhunting\/interviewing\/20060823-needleman.html?mod=RSS_Career_Journal&#038;cjrss=frontpage\" target=\"_blank\">CareerJournal.com references a survey<\/a> from Korn\/Ferry that identifies the most common interview blunders:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Talking too much<\/li>\n<li>Lack of knowledge about company or position<\/li>\n<li>Over-inflated ego<\/li>\n<li>Appearing overly confident<\/li>\n<li>Inquiring about compensation too early in the process<\/li>\n<li>Unkempt appearance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When selecting salespeople, an overly strong ego combined with a Dominant selling style is a recipe for disaster. These salespeople, at their worst, turn into a walking flamethrower. Their approach will aggravate most who come in contact with them &#8211; coworkers, customers and prospects.<\/p>\n<p>In case you were wondering (I was):<br \/>\n<strong>unkempt<\/strong> = 1: not combed 2: deficient in order or neatness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CareerJournal.com references a survey from Korn\/Ferry that identifies the most common interview blunders: Talking too much Lack of knowledge about company or position Over-inflated ego Appearing overly confident Inquiring about compensation too early in the process Unkempt appearance When selecting salespeople, an overly strong ego combined with a Dominant selling style is a recipe for disaster. These salespeople, at their worst, turn into a walking flamethrower. Their approach will aggravate most who come in contact with them &#8211; coworkers, customers and prospects. In case you were wondering (I was): unkempt = 1: not combed 2: deficient in order or neatness<\/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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-47","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->