What made a job candidate go from your best to your worst choice? Hiring a developer,

I asked details about the languages he had on his resume. Oh, I don't actually know any of those.

I put it on there to get an interview. The languages were obscure, and he'd already passed

the interview, and I was just genuinely curious how he had run into them. I walked him out

immediately. He didn't get the them. I walked him out immediately.

He didn't get the job.

I asked the applicant about their strengths and they spoke about how result focused they were.

Going well so far and then they started sharing examples of unethical things they did to get the job done.

Like bribing customers, sharing misleading information, clearly that was the end

of that interview. My friend was doing first-round interviews and screening for a role

when a guy from a dating app who had pumped, dumped, and ghosted just a few weeks earlier,

walked in from reception. Turns out he was using a fake name on his profile. She described it as an Abe Simpson moment where he walked through the door, had a sudden realization, did a 180 straight out the door without saying a single word. Well, at least he recognized her. It would be even worse if he'd completely forgotten who she was. When I was becoming an assistant manager, I had to sit in on an interview. My boss took a look at the guy's resume and went into the usual line of questioning. At one point, he asked why the interviewee had left his previous job. The interviewee said he'd quit. My boss then asked another series of questions which eventually caused this guy to slip up and say that he hadn't quit,

but rather he had been asked to leave. The interviewee got up and left once he realized he'd

been caught in a lie. After he was gone, my boss turned to me and said something like,

you know, I saw the felony and alternative school and really wanted to give him a chance.

He was doing fine until I caught him lying. Asked a warm-up

question to an applicant, and they went about it for 20 minutes without stopping or letting

me interject to ask any of the main questions. At one point, I interrupted them and said something

along the lines of, okay, that's great, let's move on to another topic, just to be told they

weren't done. They hadn't gotten

to the point yet, and then they proceeded to keep talking about the same thing for the remainder

of the interview, without me ever getting to ask any relevant questions. Ah, yes, that valued skill

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