25 THINGS TO AVOID IN AN INTERVIEW

• Poor personal appearance
  
  
• Lack of interest and enthusiasm; passive and indifferent
  
  
• Over-emphasis on money
  
  
• Criticism of past employer
  
  
• Poor eye contact with interviewer
  
  
• Late to interview
  
  
• Failure to express appreciation for interviewer’s time
  
  
• Asks no questions about the job
  
  
• Unwillingness to relocate
  
  
• Indefinite answer to question
  
  
• Overbearing, aggressive, conceited with ‘know-it-all’ complex
  
  
• Inability to express self clearly; poor voice, poor diction, poor grammar
  
  
• Lack of planning for career, no purpose or goals
  
  
• Lack of confidence and poise, nervous, ill at ease
  
  
• Failure to participate in activities
  
  
• Expects too much too soon
  
  
• Makes excuses, evasive, hedges on unfavourable factors on record
  
  
• Lack of tact
  
  
• Lack of courtesy, ill-mannered
  
  
• Lack of vitality
  
  
• Lack of maturity
  
  
• Sloppy application form
  
  
• No interest in company or industry
  
  
• Cynical
  
  
• Intolerant, strong prejudices