Maintaining your unemployment streak

One of my favorite professors shared with my class examples of how NOT to present yourself for an interview. Enjoy :)

• "She wore a Walkman and said she could listen to me and the
music at the same time."

• "Balding candidate abruptly excused himself. Returned to office
a few minutes later, wearing a hairpiece."

• "Candidate asked me if I would put on a suit jacket to insure that
the offer I had made was formal."

• "Applicant challenged interviewer to arm wrestle."

• "... said he was so well qualified that if he didn't get the job, it
would prove the company's management was incompetent."

• "... stretched out on the floor to fill out the job application."

• "... asked to see interviewer's resume to see if the personnel
executive was qualified to judge him."

• "... announced she hadn't had lunch and proceeded to eat
a hamburger and french fries in the interviewer's office."

• "Man wore jogging suit to interview for position as financial
vice president."

• "Stated that, if he were hired, he would demonstrate his loyalty
by having the corporate logo tattooed on his forearm."

• "Interrupted to phone his therapist for advice on answering
specific interview questions."

• "... wouldn't get out of the chair until I would hire him. I had
to call the police."

• "When I asked him about his hobbies, he stood up and started
tap dancing around my office."

• "... had a little pinball game and challenged me to play with him."

• "... bounced up and down on my carpet and told me I must be
highly thought of by the company because I was given such a
thick carpet."

• "... pulled out a Polaroid camera and snapped a flash picture of
me. Said he collected photos of everyone who interviewed him."

• "Said he wasn't interested because the position paid too much."

• "During the interview, an alarm clock went off from the candidate's
brief case. He took it out, shut it off, apologized and said he had
to
leave for another interview."

• "A telephone call came in for the job applicant. It was from his
wife.
His side of the conversation went like this: "Which company? When
do I start? What's the salary?" I said, "I assume you're not
interested
in conducting the interview any further." He promptly responded,
"I am as long as you'll pay me more." "I didn't hire him, but later
found
out there was no other job offer. It was a scam to get a higher
offer."

• "An applicant came in wearing only one shoe. She explained that
the other shoe was stolen off her foot in the bus."

• "His attaché [case] opened when he picked it up and the contents
spilled, revealing ladies' undergarments and assorted makeup and
perfume."

• "He came to the interview on a moped and left it in the reception
area. He didn't want it to get stolen, and stated that he would
require indoor parking for the moped."

• "He took off his right shoe and sock, removed a medicated foot
powder and dusted it on the foot and in the shoe. While he was
putting back the shoe and sock, he mentioned that he had to use
the powder four times a day, and this was the time."

• "Candidate said he really didn't want a job, but the unemployment
office needed proof that he was looking for one."

• "He whistled when the interviewer was talking."

• "... asked who the lovely babe was, pointing to the picture on my
desk. When I said it was my wife, he asked if she was home now
and wanted my phone number. I called security."

• "Pointing to a black case he carried into my office, he said that if
he
was not hired, the bomb would go off. Disbelieving, I began to state

why he would never be hired and that I was going to call the police.

He then reached down to the case, flipped a switch and ran. No
one was injured, but I did need to get a new desk."

• "... asked if I wanted some cocaine before starting the interview."