Working life links 02 06 08

Interview ‘no-no’s from Career Builder
CareerBuilder.com has released its yearly survey of the strangest interview mistakes of job candidates. Here are  their  top favorites:
• “Candidate smelled his armpits on the way to the interview room.”
• “Candidate told the interviewer he was fired for beating up his last boss.”
• “Candidate flushed the toilet while talking to interviewer during phone interview.”
Of course, none of you readers would  make these mistakes!
Will post some advice on handling interviews over the next few weeks.
 
26% of hiring managers using Internet search engines and of those 63% dismissed candidates on basis of information they found . 
I did warn readers about this happening in a previous post, which can be found here and the statistics are beginning to show, you can be rejected for a job, because of information found on the internet.  Link to full story external web site

The number of interviewers checking online is going to keep increasing.

CIPD report that women are more likely to be appointed to  board level “glass cliff” positions.
That is women go into jobs with significant problems. This could explain why a previous report found companies who appointed female chief executives did less well.
After all if you bring a company back from bankruptcy it may  still not earn great profits.
Proves all these reports should never be taken at face value, you’ve got to dig underneath.
Link to full story on CIPD web site

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