survey : )

[Guest guest]

End of the week humour : )

 

A survey of personnel executives at 200 of the Fortune 1,000

companies provided the following unbelievable but true

examples of job applicant behavior.

 

" The reason the candidate was taking so long to respond to a

question became apparent when he began to snore. "

 

" When I asked the candidate to give a good example of the

organizational skills she was boasting about, she said she was

proud of her ability to pack her suitcase 'real neat' for her vacations. "

 

" Why did (the applicant) go to college? "

His reply: " To party and socialize. "

 

" When I gave him my business card at the beginning of the interview,

he immediately crumpled it and tossed it in the wastebasket. "

 

" I received a resume and letter that said that the recent

high-school graduate wanted to earn $25 an hour-'and not a

nickel less.' "

 

" (The applicant) had arranged for a pizza to be delivered to

my office during a lunch-hour interview. I asked him not to

eat it until later. "

 

" (The applicant) said she had just graduated cum laude, but

she had no idea what cum laude meant. However, she was proud

of her grade point average. It was 2.1. "

 

" (The applicant) insisted on telling me that he wasn't afraid

of hard work. But insisted on adding he was afraid of horses

and didn't like jazz, modern art, or seafood. "

 

" She actually showed up for an interview during the summer

wearing a bathing suit. She said she didn't think I'd mind. "

 

" He sat down opposite me, made himself comfortable, and

proceeded to put his foot up on my desk. "

 

" The interview had gone well, until he told me that he and

his friends wore my company's clothing whenever they could.

I had to tell him that we manufactured office products, not

sportswear. "

 

" (The applicant) applied for a customer service position,

although, as he confided, he really wasn't a people person. "

 

" Without asking if I minded, he casually lit a cigar and then

tossed the match onto my carpet-and couldn't understand why I

was upset. "

 

" On the phone, I had asked the candidate to bring his resume

and a couple of references. He arrived with the resume-and

two people. "

 

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