I got a couple stories....
We were interviewing for a sales manager. This was a pro job, would pay well with perks, but lots of responsibility.
We interviewed this one guy... He started out OK, but he was a devotee of Zig Ziegler and Tony Robbins. Started telling us about going to all the seminars and such and apparently had been on a first name basis with Ziegler. This wasn't impressing us and he pushed on...
So, I'm not a Tony Robbins fan (Look him up if you have to). Robbins has this "technique" of starting to swear, dropping "F bombs" and the like, to get people's attention. Well, this guy pulled this trick out... and started cussing up a storm. First I thought it just slipped out, but he really started pouring it on.
Now, I'm no prude... LOL... and quite frankly, having spent a lot of time working in machine shops, I can weave a pretty good tapestry of foul language when appropriate. A job interview is not the place though... Then, given our customer base was a lot of QC people that are quite often kind of on the prudish side, the kinda people that you tend to watch your language around.. Not that they never heard it, just that they appreciated not hearing it too. Of course, we had just the opposite too... Like the guy that got caught with the hooker, but I digress.
So... Having a guy swearing his face off in a freaking job interview just told us he wasn't the one to hire.
Another woman showed up for the same job... Very nice, very sweet lady. English was her second language, but that was OK. Her entire sales experience was that she had made menus for her sister's restaurant in Puerto Rico.... WTF? We had a HR person from an agency that we had contracted with and she sat in on the interview... and the only reason the interview lasted as long as it did was because we were nice guys and didn't want to just kick her out... The HR person actually said "Should we make an offer?" after she left.
I burst out laughing... I actually suggested we can one of our other employees and hire her to work in the front office. That idea actually got thought about, but we decided that she was overqualified but she'd probably be great in the right job... It wasn't as a sales manager though.
I got a couple from the other side of the table I'll tell in the next post.