Some People Just Don't Really Want Jobs

I'm reading CNN Money's article of Eight Ways to Sabotage Yourself in a Job Interview, and I have to tell you, I'm simply agog at what some people do while trying to get a job. For example, mistake number eight: Being too dependent:

Would you consider showing up at your interview with your pet in tow? One interviewee brought his dog along to the meeting... and wanted to talk about nothing but his pet.

Arriving at the interview with your parents, children, friend, spouse or pet shows a serious lack of independence and professionalism. Attend the interview alone.

Amen to that. Although I have to admit that there was one time I was up for a freelance writing gig when Athena was still a very young baby, and I was a stay at home dad, and I had no one to watch her. So I brought her with me. It turned out to be a good thing: the people who I was interviewing with were both moms and gave me credit for being a stay-at-home dad in the first place. I got the freelance gig. But it's not something I'd necessarily recommend as a general strategy, and to be sexist about it I doubt the interview would have gone the same way had I been interviewing with men.

Ever do any of these self-sabotaging things on a job interview?

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#3 Comment from ajandersonnotary
10/27/06 12:57 AM | Permalink

"Some people just don't really want jobs?" Isn't that what the President is telling us? Americans don't want to work certain jobs, so we have to get illegal aliens to do it? (For shit wages of course, below minimum wages, no less.) Tell it to the unemployed people out here in California who are no longer being officially counted as "unemployed" (as far as the government is concerned.) I'll bet the unemployment rate out here is more like 15% or greater. You should see the crowds of day laborers down on the street corners every day when I drive to work--it's like an infestation. And it's only gotten worse since Bush has been in office. Giving them amnesty is only going to encourage more of them to come here--just like it did the last time. Finally people in other parts of the country are beginning to wake up to what we've been living with for 40 years or more.

(Pardon me, but I'm a frustrated, LEGAL immigrant, myself.)

AJ in SF
#2 Comment from lurkynat
10/26/06 8:05 PM | Permalink

Wow! John you are sucha great Dad! I bet Krissy is on board about that! :)
You also have uncanny luck my friend! lol(Bea ... can you beleive his Luck?!!! Get Out!...)
hugs,natalie
#1 Comment from cgferrer71
10/25/06 4:48 PM | Permalink

Ive never sabatoged myself at an interview, actualy i aced them all... not to brag. but i have gotten every interview i went to... pretty cool. im just pretty good at reading people...give them what you want, dont be too demanding, and tell them what they want to hear, compliment the pictures in the room, compliment them,
be mature, easy going..and you'll get the job, basically, be qualified, and easy to get along with. thats all they really want right? not your dog there? that is crazy!!!
christine

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