TOP 10 BIGGEST INTERVIEW MISTAKES 面試的十大禁忌3

Here are 10 real-life examples from this year’s survey:

Ø   Candidate answered cell phone and asked the interviewer to leave her own office because it was a “private” conversation.

Ø   Applicant told the interviewer he wouldn’t be able to stay with the job long because he thought he might get an inheritance if his uncle died and his uncle wasn’t “looking too good.”

Ø   The job seeker asked the interviewer for a ride home after the interview.

Ø   The applicant smelled his armpits on the way to the interview room.

Ø   Candidate said she could not provide a writing sample because all of her writing had been for the CIA and it was “classified.”

Ø   Candidate told the interviewer he was fired for beating up his last boss.

Ø   When the applicant was offered food before the interview, he declined saying he didn’t want to line his stomach with grease before going out drinking.

Ø   An applicant said she was a “people person” not a “numbers person” – in her interview for an accounting position.

Ø   During a phone interview the candidate flushed the toilet while talking to the hiring manager.

Ø   The applicant took out a hairbrush and brushed her hair.

【Chat room】

applicant / candidate

【Key word】

inheritance

armpit

classified

decline àrefuse , do not take something

inherit 繼承

inheritance 遺產

At a young age, William got a large inheritance from his grandfather.

With his inheritance, Ray decided to buy a sailboat and travel around the world.

classify 分類、分等級

classified (adj)機密的、保密的

The classified file was destroyed after the case closed.

這個機密檔案在結案後就被銷毀了

This classified document can only be accessed by certain people.

這個機密文件只有特定人看得到

decline 婉拒、拒絕

Sherry politely declined the offer of transferring to her company’s New York office.

Sherry 很有禮貌的婉拒把她轉任到紐約辦公室的提議

Ariel declined David’s proposal and he was really hurt.

Ariel拒絕了David的求婚，David非常的受傷