{"id":183595,"date":"2010-12-19T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/2010\/12\/19\/things-to-avoid-during-job-interview-2\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T23:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:27:08","slug":"things-to-avoid-during-job-interview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/things-to-avoid-during-job-interview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Things to avoid during a Job Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Poor personal appearance<br>* Lack of interest and enthusiasm; passive and indifferent<br>* Over-emphasis on money<br>* Criticism of past employer<br>* Poor <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dutable.com\/tag\/contacts-coloured\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">eye contact<\/a><\/strong> with interviewer<br>* Late to interview<br>* Failure to express appreciation for interviewer\u2019s time<br>* Asks no questions about the job<br>* Unwillingness to relocate<br>* Indefinite answer to question<br>* Overbearing, aggressive, conceited with \u2018know-it-all\u2019 complex<br>* Inability to express self clearly; poor voice, poor diction, poor grammar<br>* Lack of vitality<br>* Lack of maturity<br>* Lack of planning for career, no purpose or goals<br>* Lack of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dutable.com\/tag\/build-real-world-confidence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">confidence and poise<\/a><\/strong>, nervous, ill at ease<br>* Failure to participate in activities<br>* Expects too much too soon<br>* Makes excuses, evasive, hedges on unfavourable factors on record<br>* Lack of tact<br>* Lack of courtesy, ill-mannered<br>* Sloppy application form<br>* No interest in company or industry<br>* Cynical<br>* Intolerant, strong prejudices<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s time* Asks no questions about the job* Unwillingness to relocate* Indefinite answer to question* Overbearing, aggressive, conceited with \u2018know-it-all\u2019 complex* Inability to express&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4652],"tags":[22354,22353,18461],"class_list":["post-183595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-career","tag-career-advice","tag-interview-mistakes","tag-job-interview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183595"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445780,"href":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183595\/revisions\/445780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}