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What are your Pet Peeves about InterviewERs?
FohBoh gang, I need your help! I'm writing another top 10 list that I'll be sharing during the manager conference I'm speaking at this Tuesday. (yes I'm a little last minute)
What are your pet peeves about interviewERs? Think back to Recruiters or Employers that you have interviewed with, what did they do that turned you off, rubbed you the wrong way or drove you crazy?
What are your pet peeves about interviewERs? Think back to Recruiters or Employers that you have interviewed with, what did they do that turned you off, rubbed you the wrong way or drove you crazy?
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Permalink Reply by Judy "the foodie" Asman on -
Hi, I love this topic.
My pet peeves:
1 ) When interviewers enter a room with an air of "holier than thou," it's a royal waste of time for both parties (who wants to work for someone with a stick up their ass?)
2) Interviewers who haven't prepared in advance before the interview. When they just "wing it" by asking general questions based on glancing at the resume right then and there.
3) When they use cliche expressions to describe the position, it's like, duh, we can read the job description and already have before showing up. Tell us something we don't know, stimulate us please
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Permalink Reply by Keith Bernhardt on -
# 3 Exactly ! it's as if they have swallowed a thessaurus or dictionary.
Too, there's a "dumbing down" in interviewing, apparently.
It's like "poker", the interviewer wants to be the "big ike" and doesn't want you to
have the winning hand.
Another pet peeve.. "We have other candidates" (Well, I don't live under a rock, and since you advertise the job in every website around, I imagine you will have other 'candidates')
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Permalink Reply by Keith Bernhardt on
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I t's arrogant and rude, when the interviewer keeps getting interrupted and allows it to happen !
People enter the door with "I can't figure this out !" (and they have to interview me ??)
or " Bob at the Chicago office is on line 2 and needs to speak to you.
(Why didn't "Bob" call an hour ago before I arrived ) ?
The receptionist (or excuse me Director of First impressions (ahem gag)) neglects to inform
the interviewer that i've arrived.
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Permalink Reply by Keith Bernhardt on
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When the interviewer says they'll contact you and never do (after the interviewer).
When you contact them, to follow up, and they're too "busy" to talk to you.
I guess Bob in Chicago is having another hissy fit !
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Permalink Reply by Keith Bernhardt on
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After you've been in the interview and you think it's going well, the interviewer says "We've had a change of heart and probably won't be 'actively filling' the position."
I've actually heard this, before. You ask "why was it advertised" and the morons can't come up
with an answer.
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Permalink Reply by Amanda Vroom on -
My Pet Peeves:
1. They only give you ten minutes of time...what do they learn in 10 minutes??
2. Benefits...everyone needs to know how their potential benefits stack up....the interviewer should be able to speak to this!
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Permalink Reply by Mark Moeller on -
My 3 biggest pet peeves are:
1. The interviewer being interupted whether by phone or someone walking in.
2. The interviewer not being prepared.
3. The interviewer not being able to answer simple questions like the job description.
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Permalink Reply by Keith Bernhardt on
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Another pet peeve of mine is where whomever writes the job description can't spell, uses bad grammar or punctuation.
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Permalink Reply by Pat Jack on -
Keith,
Check out the craigslist ads in New Orleans. It's the restaurants and the interviewers who often make the mistakes in grammar and spelling.
We servers, bartenders, etc ... love to point this out and it totally kills the response to a craigslist.com ad.
I contend that a restaurant that posts an ad that is not spell and grammar checked is probably going to make a mistake on your payroll check ... or worse.
I join you Keith in this peeve but reserve the peeve to be just another source of humor to buoy the daily trek through the crap they call jobs in New Orleans hospitality.
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Permalink Reply by Keith Bernhardt on
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..That the interviewer implies that you have lied on your resume' !
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Permalink Reply by Pat Jack on
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Recently, my favorite line from an interviewer, a chef/owner :
As I was leaving the interview he attacked my hand at the door with a cheap-shot handshake so I had to choke up into his hand and crack a few of his knuckles and as his eyes widened he did his best to exclaim, (as I continued to dominate the handshake with some very real intent) ...
" I'm not intimidated by experience "
I gave his hand and arm a final, quick snap up and down and wiped the grin off his fat fratboy face. What a jerk. He likes to hire compliant females so he can talk sexually loaded trash around them.
He's a partner in a local hooter's.
A bit of advice to an interviewer, if you don't know how to shake hands then keep your hands out of somebody's who had been in the sand and told you so, especially if you are fat and out of shape and the other guy is big and strong. Don't think that everybody is going to bow down to your ego.
What IS IT with Chef's these days? I mean ... who gets DRUNK at work besides chef's.
Is there ANY other industry in America where it is OK to get DRUNK at work, and where that is actually considered to be cool? Chef ... if ya gotta get drunk at work you got a big, big problem, it's called ALCOHOLISM.
Where did the good old days go, or were there ever any?
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Permalink Reply by pubmaster on -
Hi Amanda
When an interviewer is late or a no show for an interview
Unprofessional conduct during an interview - arguing with a colleague, etc
Being screened or interviewed by someone who has never worked in a restaurant
Being screened and rejected by automatic no-reply e-mail
Being talked down to - I really hate that
I have spent my life reading people and body language - interviewers need to remember that people like me can read them like a book.
Lack of candor about a company. If a company is having difficulty, don't lie about it. There is so much information out there, I will find out. And, I do my homework.
An interviewer who didn't believe my qualifications - I don't lie.
Don't ask me what year I graduated high school.
Oh yeah, when a position is eliminated in the middle, or towards the end of the hiring process.
Interviewers who project their own biases on me. Includes salary expectations.
Interviewers who seem to think that all I know is what I did at my last job.
Interviewers who ask for sensitive proprietary information. I know my numbers. If I blab them around town, I betray a confidence to a prior employer. What will I blab about you?
Anyway, that was just a few off the top of my head
Cheers
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