How to Screw Up Interviews

#1 Do practise short-term memory loss and keep your candidate waiting while you enjoy a long, leisurely lunch and then proceed to taaaarik those cigarettes.

#2 Do have 3 persons on the panel – a young chap who doesn’t seem to have a vested interest in the interview, a real wheeling-and-dealing CEO and the obligatory female person.

#3 Do not introduce yourself from the onset but only when candidate asked for your name card at the end of the interview.

#4 Do look lost and awkward in between questioning while rummaging through your heads what next to ask.

#5 Do remember to not peruse the resume PRIOR to the interview. All reiterations of the resume and clarifications can be made face-to-face with candidate, prolonging the already torturous interview.

#6 Do ask seemingly intelligent questions such as “What is your perspective on marketing?”.

#7 And upon candidate’s pursue of the context behind the seemingly intelligent question, repeat the question louder as if the volume of your voice would make up for the lack of depth of question.

A lesson well learnt for $6.70 of cab fare and 45 minutes of my life. Cao ah-beng.

~SeamonkeY~