I worked as a recruiter for what felt like 100 years but was actually more than 40 (2.5 recruiter years for each real year). I filled more than 1200 full time plus consulting assignments. I now do executive job search coaching working with people globally helping them find new positions as their coach, not as a recruiter
In all my years doing recruiting, I came into contact or received feedback from clients about many types of bizarre or ridiculous behaviors (or behaviours in you are in the UK) that were self-destructive to people and their candidacies. People who claimed to have been robbed on the way to interviews and then went out and bounced checks. People who arrived at interviews in shorts during winter . . . You know lunatics.
However, what people often do falls into the camp of “garden variety of stupidity. Here are 9 idiotic mistakes job hunters make on interviews:
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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a coach who worked as a recruiter for what seems like one hundred years. His work involves life coaching, as well as executive job search coaching and leadership coaching.
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