VIDEO: JOB INTERVIEWS THAT WILL MAKE YOU FEEL PROUD ABOUT YOUR WORST INTERVIEW

Job interviews are a necessary evil in the world of work. It gives people a chance to promote themselves and assess whether they would be a good fit for the company based on their values. We occasionally slip up and have a really bad interview, whether it be the strange questions thrown at us or our inability to think straight on that particular day. These people definitely win the prize for the worst interview!

“Halfway through, I managed to get my thumb ring stuck in my necklace and had to sit through the rest of the interview with my hand stuck to my neck. It wasn’t too bad until one of the interviewers tried to shake my hand at the end.”

“Ten years ago, I was interviewing a potential employee. His CV was perfect, education spot-on. Where he failed was attaching a full-frontal naked picture on the CV. I still hired him, but it took all my will power to only ever look him straight in the face.”

“My interview was going too well. Far too well. I had sat there for 55 minutes with them firing questions at me‚ and me firing answers right back. Their nods confirmed it: I was doing really well. I was pretty certain I had the job. They wrapped it up and stood to shake my hand. As I went to stand up myself, I realised that ‚ for 55 minutes solid ‚ I had sat with my legs crossed, unmoved. Needless to say, I didn’t even make it into a standing position. I crashed head-first into a filing cabinet, my legs still locked in a crossed position.
I didn’t get the job.”

“Interviewer: SQL
Me: Structured Query Language? SQL Server? Something else?
Interviewer: No idea. Ethernet!
Me: I know what it is. Anything specific?
Interviewer: Are you certified?
Me: To do what?
Interviewer: I have no idea. HR puts all this crap on my sheet and I am not an engineer. Can you do network stuff?
Me: Sure! Love it!
Interviewer: Great. Start Monday. God, I hate HR.”

“I left really early for an interview and got dressed in half-light. When I entered the room, I sat down and crossed my legs, only to find that I had one black and one blue stocking. I was mortified ‚ thought I’d styled it out. After the interview, I went into bathroom and had a large black handprint on my face, courtesy of good old-fashioned Guardian newsprint.”

Just to make you feel a little less terrified for your future interview, here is some interview advice you should definitely NEVER follow!