At a job interview, an applicant should prove that they are better than others to get a desired job.
But some people tend to do too much in their attempts to impress the recruiter.
Here are some stories like this from hiring managers.
Dude straight up started lying about the experience.
Had to show him my LinkedIn profile, company Facebook page where I’m still there in the old photos. He’s like, “I was in sales, I thought it was the same thing.” © Fade-Into-You / Reddit
He kept saying, “Yeah, definitely! I could do something like that.” I kept pressing him to see if he’d actually done it or if he just thought he could do it, and he continued to skirt around the question.
I finally plopped some cake layers and some buttercream in front of him and asked him to decorate the cake for us, and he turned around and called out to the decorators in the kitchen, “Could someone tell me what I’m supposed to do?” © lydiebug225 / Reddit
A disappointingly high number talked about using it for classes in college, and writing some side programs in it after they heard about it, and so on.
They must have felt silly later when they googled it and discovered that there is no programming language Balrave, I’d just made it up as a way to tell who was lying to me.
One of the biggest failures was a guy whom I asked if he could lift 50 lb unassisted. He said, “Yes, watch this,” and tried to lift the steel work table that is bolted into the cement floor. “Mr.
Interviewee, it is bolted to the floor.”
He looked puzzled at me and asked me angrily why I would do that to him. That I should trust him. © Nezan / Reddit
One person did that and had listed themselves as having been there for several years.
I looked up the number and called: she’d been there 3 days and then stopped showing up. When I asked the applicant about it, she said I must have talked to the wrong supervisor and gave me a different (private) number to call.
Yeah, you think I don’t know you have a friend posing as your previous supervisor? © 3Colton / Reddit
When she arrived, she was very lethargic, and couldn’t answer basic interview questions.
When asked what she did at Call Center A, she literally just said “call center rep.” When asked to elaborate on her duties, she repeated the same thing.
At an ad agency, creative people get jobs on the strength of their portfolios, which are collections of ads they’ve created.
This guy comes in with an amazing reel of TV commercials.
A little too amazing, actually, especially for somebody I’ve never heard of.
To make it worse, this guy just smells wrong: he’s too young, too cocky, too aggressive.
Just off. I call my boss and tell him my suspicions. He’s stoked, invites me and the guy into his office to view the reel in question.
He hits play, watches one award-winning ad after another.
We exchange glances.
Then the coup de grâce: a commercial starts playing. One that, unbeknownst to me, my boss had written.
This idiot stole every award-winning ad he could think of, and didn’t even bother to find out if any of the authors of the work he was stealing would be at the interview. My boss said in mid-reel, “You didn’t make this!” The guy paused a second, then coughed up the lamest defense in the history of intellectual property theft, “Yeah.
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