CHICAGO (WBBM) – It’s tough enough in this economy to find a job, but, if you bring your parents to the interview, you’re not likely to be hired. That’s just one of the gaffes by applicants, reported in a new survey of more than 2,700 hiring managers.
The survey done by CareerBuilder.com, finds that some applicants make disastrous mistakes when they show up for an interview.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that at Hoffman Estates-based Sears, one woman arrived with her two young children. While she was interviewing, other staffers had to play babysitter.
Two other prospective employees, looking for their first jobs out of college, came with their parents.
The hiring managers surveyed by CareerBuilder also reported a job applicant who began bashing the firm in a conversation with people he assumed were fellow candidates. Unfortunately for him they turned out to be the company’s hiring staff.
Other mistakes: wearing flip flops with a business suit, filing fingernails during the session and asking the interviewer out for a drink afterwards.
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