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How Not To Conduct a Job Interview

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Recruiters have one of the highest rates of job burnout. If only they had released some steam now and then.

To complete this How-To you will need:

Job applicants
Interview area with no privacy
A total disregard for the interviewee's feelings
No plan of attack whatsoever
No knowledge of the applicant coming in the door

Step 1: Keep them waiting

Keep the applicant waiting in the reception area for no good reason so he'll have added time to get nervous.

Step 2: Act surly

When you finally fetch him, come across as someone who hates his own job. Break the ice with, "Now who are you again?"

Tip: If you notice signs of nervousness—the applicant is sweating profusely, turning beet red, or stammering—be sure to point this out.

Step 3: Do all the talking

Begin by saying, "Let me tell you a little bit about myself" and launch into a monologue. Ask whether he thinks you'd look better as a redhead. Whatever he says, let your tone suggest he gave the wrong answer.

Step 4: Go off topic

Repeatedly go off topic, lose your place, and do everything to convince the candidate that you are in desperate need of medication. Just to keep things interesting, repeatedly call him by the wrong name.

Tip: If corrected, glare at him and say, "Isn't that what I just called you?"

Step 5: Take phone calls

Feel free to take personal phone calls. By pantomime, let the candidate know that the person on the other end is crazy, then spend five minutes cooing, "No, I love you more" in a baby voice

Step 6: Say there's no job

At this point, confess that there is no job per se, but you wanted to test the waters as it were by seeing how the

Step 7: Don't show him out

Let him find his own way out of the office, even if said office is such a maze that he'll no doubt get hopelessly lost. If you run into him later, shout and threaten to call security.

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  • Dont be a dick dude.

  • i want the person to walk in to see me quickly pull up my pants and close pornographic websites just to see what they think

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  • The boss is such a tard!!

  • "You want this job? Then bark like a dog!"

  • if i were the person being interviewed i would just kick his ass on my way out

  • i would just walk right out of that interview lol

  • I only watched 18 seconds of this and I still feel like I got robbed of my time -_-

  • holy crap your right

  • well the back of him anyway.:p

  • The guy being interviewed totally looks like doctor who:)))

  • /watch?v=zP0sqRMzkwo

  • @TubePunch30 it is read the title

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