Posted on 05/22/2011 1:48:29 PM PDT by george76
When interviewing for a job, we all want to put our best foot forward, but sometimes we end up putting it in our mouths instead. Even though you may feel comfortable chatting and making small talk with your interviewer, it’s best to leave some things unsaid.
We checked in with experts to find seven things you should never say during an interview.
1.) Don't Compliment the Interviewer's Appearance in Any Way.
Don’t say: “I love your skirt!”.
2.) Don’t Cry.
Don’t say: “It was the hardest thing I ever went through, and I still break down just thinking about it.”
Crying the first time you meet might lead the interviewer to think you’re unstable.
3.) Don't Talk About Illnesses Unless They’re Relevant.
Don’t say: “My back is killing me, and this time of year is rough on my asthma.”
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7.) Don’t Say You Were Fired.
Don’t say: “At my last job, I got canned.”
“Even if you were fired you just don’t want to use that word,”
(Excerpt) Read more at foxbusiness.com ...
I’m wiccan and can I get all the equinoxes and solstices off?
“8) Here’s my facebook address...”
Srsly not kidding.
What one of my accomplishments? Well, I was never convicted.
Don’t ask the interviewer, “Is it just me, or do you also hear that high pitched squealing?”
“Does this job require a REAL birth certificate?”
Actually, with me as your interviewer, that would add points to your score. (and my answer would be "Defenders of the Faith")
A relative of a friend asked the interviewer at the end of the interview “ so! When are you due? You must be excited! “
- and you know where this is going. She was not pregnant.
What if it's premium home brew and I bring enough to share?
ping
“Having facial piercings won’t help, either.”
I worked at a multinational, big chemical company in a divisional research group. I was a technical manager for a specialty chemical group and had a very nice young lady working as a researcher on our team. She was intelligent, graduate degree, well-spoken, personable, well-respected among her peers and thorough in her job. I was talking to my boss one day (division director) about sending her to customers to present progress on specific projects, and he shook his head and said that upper management had already said they would never put her in front of customers...
She had multiple (5 - 7 per) ear piercings, nose ring, tongue stud, tattoos down both arms to her fingers, around her shoulders and up her neck to the base of her head...but she worked in a nerdy, geeky male-dominated environment where they couldn’t possibly understand that a customer might actually be interested in what she had to say rather than how she looked...Actually, she was a very pretty girl, not to say I found the tats and the piercings to be very attractive, just once you got to know her and work with her, you never really noticed them...
"Wanna get away?"
ROTFLOL!
I need a good laugh.
“What if it’s premium home brew and I bring enough to share?”
When can you start?
I’m going to need a week off next month.
“Does this look infected to you?”
What is your policy about pissing in the parking lot???
When I had one guy with piercings come in, I immediately thought how to make the interview as short as possible and just get it over with. Fortunately, he couldn’t even answer the few technical questions I asked him, so it was a moot point anyway.
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