You may have heard the horror stories--job hunters who take phone calls or text during an interview, or bring out a sandwich and start chomping, or brush their hair, or worse. You wouldn't do any of those things, would you? Of course not.
But there are tons of other job interview no-no's you may not have thought of. Or that you've forgotten. The job hunting trail is long and arduous, and a little refresher course can't hurt. So for your edification and enjoyment, here are 50 (yes, 50!) of the worst and most common job interview mistakes:
1. Arriving late.
2. Arriving too early.
3. Lighting up a cigarette, or smelling like a cigarette.
4. Bad-mouthing your last boss.
5. Lying about your skills/experience/knowledge.
6. Wearing the wrong (for this workplace!) clothes.
7. Forgetting the name of the person you're interviewing with.
8. Wearing a ton of perfume or aftershave.
9. Wearing sunglasses.
10. Wearing a Bluetooth earpiece.
11. Failing to research the employer in advance.
12. Failing to demonstrate enthusiasm.
13. Inquiring about benefits too soon.
14. Talking about salary requirements too soon.
15. Being unable to explain how your strengths and abilities apply to the job in question.
16. Failing to make a strong case for why you are the best person for this job.
17. Forgetting to bring a copy of your resume and/or portfolio.
18. Failing to remember what you wrote on your own resume.
19. Asking too many questions.
20. Asking no questions at all.
21. Being unprepared to answer the standard questions.
22. Failing to listen carefully to what the interviewer is saying.
23. Talking more than half the time.
24. Interrupting your interviewer.
25. Neglecting to match the communication style of your interviewer.
26. Yawning.
27. Slouching.
28. Bringing along a friend, or your mother.
29. Chewing gum, tobacco, your pen, your hair.
30. Laughing, giggling, whistling, humming, lip-smacking.
31. Saying "you know," "like," "I guess," and "um."
32. Name-dropping or bragging or sounding like a know-it-all.
33. Asking to use the bathroom.
34. Being falsely or exaggeratedly modest.
35. Shaking hands too weakly, or too firmly.
36. Failing to make eye contact (or making continuous eye contact).
37. Taking a seat before your interviewer does.
38. Becoming angry or defensive.
39. Complaining that you were kept waiting.
40. Complaining about anything!
41. Speaking rudely to the receptionist.
42. Letting your nervousness show.
43. Overexplaining why you lost your last job.
44. Being too familiar and jokey.
45. Sounding desperate.
46. Checking the time.
47. Oversharing.
48. Sounding rehearsed.
49. Leaving your cell phone on.
50. Failing to ask for the job.
Friday, March 19, 2010
AJIRA CENTRE SERVICES
Ndugu wanaharakati, wanataaluma na wananchi wote!
Napenda kuwafahamisha kuwa kampuni ya AJIRA CENTRE SERVICES yenye makao yake Jijini Dar es salaam inatoa mafunzo mbalimbali kama ifuatavyo.
Wanatoa mafunzo ya ujasiriamali yenye kutathimini na kuonesha fursa za kiuchumi zinazopatikana katika jamii husika. Mafunzo haya yanaambatana na kushirikishana mafanikio na changamoto amabazo jamii zingine zimepitia na kufanikiwa.
Mafunzo ya jinsi ya kuandaa na kusimamia miradi (Project Planning and Management), andiko la mradi (project proposal), usimamizi na tathimini ya miradi (Project Monitoring and Evaluation), Usuluhishi wa Migogoro katika miradi.
Tathimini ya athari za kimazingira kaitika miradi yote ya maendeleo (Environmental Impact Assessment and Environmental Auditing), Njia bora za utunzaji wa mazingira.
Uanzishaji wa utalii wa asili, vijiji vya ushirika na rafiki wa mazingira, elimu ya makzi na saikolojia ya mahsiano na kakuzi ya watoto.
Utafiti katika masuala ya mazingira, malaria na UKIMWI.
Mafunzo ya ufugaji kuku, samaki, ng'ombe na Bustani (Tikiti maji)
Kwa wote watakaopenda huduma yetu.
Wasiliana nasi kwa namba. 0754 843 942.
Stay Blessed
Napenda kuwafahamisha kuwa kampuni ya AJIRA CENTRE SERVICES yenye makao yake Jijini Dar es salaam inatoa mafunzo mbalimbali kama ifuatavyo.
Wanatoa mafunzo ya ujasiriamali yenye kutathimini na kuonesha fursa za kiuchumi zinazopatikana katika jamii husika. Mafunzo haya yanaambatana na kushirikishana mafanikio na changamoto amabazo jamii zingine zimepitia na kufanikiwa.
Mafunzo ya jinsi ya kuandaa na kusimamia miradi (Project Planning and Management), andiko la mradi (project proposal), usimamizi na tathimini ya miradi (Project Monitoring and Evaluation), Usuluhishi wa Migogoro katika miradi.
Tathimini ya athari za kimazingira kaitika miradi yote ya maendeleo (Environmental Impact Assessment and Environmental Auditing), Njia bora za utunzaji wa mazingira.
Uanzishaji wa utalii wa asili, vijiji vya ushirika na rafiki wa mazingira, elimu ya makzi na saikolojia ya mahsiano na kakuzi ya watoto.
Utafiti katika masuala ya mazingira, malaria na UKIMWI.
Mafunzo ya ufugaji kuku, samaki, ng'ombe na Bustani (Tikiti maji)
Kwa wote watakaopenda huduma yetu.
Wasiliana nasi kwa namba. 0754 843 942.
Stay Blessed
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
AT THE JOB INTERVIEW
One day a man tried to get a job at a great company. He passed every test with flying colours. At the final interview part, the CEO told him that his constant blinking would bother customers.
"I can fix that with some Aspirin. Just take some and I'll be better in a second"
So, he reaches into his pocket and pulls condom after condom out until he finds the Aspirin. He takes it and his blinking goes away.
The CEO says "We don't approve of womanizing!"
The guy says "Oh! No! Have you ever tried to ask a pharmacist for aspirin while your winking"
"I can fix that with some Aspirin. Just take some and I'll be better in a second"
So, he reaches into his pocket and pulls condom after condom out until he finds the Aspirin. He takes it and his blinking goes away.
The CEO says "We don't approve of womanizing!"
The guy says "Oh! No! Have you ever tried to ask a pharmacist for aspirin while your winking"
Beware of FACEBOOK Hackers
Good morning Tanzania! This is your girl, Angella
It's always wonderful to wake up to a day full of potential, hope and great opportunities. A new day promises a chance to make reality out of the dreams you have beforehand. As we all know challenges are sure to come in forms of opposition, discouragement and even false accusations. It’s true that we all differ in ways to handle these challenges.
We could chose to hide run cry or give-up...those options seem to present themselves first for some reason. I’m here to tell you don't take that road we should opt to confront the problem but with wisdom and poise. Now I am aware that there have been some recent concerns about my face book profile. And I’m here to clarify that I only have 1 face book profile, by the name of Angella Lubala and 1 fan page by the name of Angella Lubala anything else is not mine.
But recently my profile had been intercepted by two individuals by the name of Francis Mongi and Alex Masalu. During that time they had been providing false information to my fans, friends, and family in attempt to ruin my name. These two young men hacked into my yahoo account and because I had the same password for my face book it was then easy for them to tamper with my face book account.
Then they started writing lies on innocent people’s walls while impersonating me. There have been names mentioned of very influential people that I have great respect for who also were unfortunately linked to this imaginative story about me.
I, Angella Lubala assure you that this issue was given priority and all has been accurately handled. This is also the time I would like to bring awareness to all face book participants please let my experience be a free lesson learned for you.
Because hacking into people’s account is a recent havoc anyone can be a victim! Be very discreet about your passwords and make sure that your face book and host email account do not share the same password. I appreciate you all for your encouragement love and support. So my beautiful fans, the wonderful media, my loving family, and my gracious friends know that you are not forgotten...you have all watched me grow into the great expectations you have of me, thank you for believing in me and I promise to keep you proud.
I am currently increasing my education ,abroad, in political science .fortunately I was able to be elected president of African student association at my university I am doing my best to represent my country respectively. I am officially representing Tanzania in the Miss Africa USA 2010 pageant finalists.
My platform is called brighter education and if you would like better information or feel like participant you are greatly welcomed to visit www.missafricausa.com and vote for me or visit my fan page on face book for more details or my website www.angellalubala.com .I love you all my fellow Tanzanians and together is the only way to make a difference.
Harusi ya Obama na Mitchelle
It seems it was very simple lol. Sidhani kama at that time Mitchelle alikuwa anaota atakuwa First lady one day.
Leave smelly perfumes, deodorants, and candles at home!
Hebu soma hii hapa chini, i wish nchi zetu hizi pia zingekuwa na sheria kama hizi. Kuna watu wana allegy kiasi kwamba akihisi harufu ya perfume anaanza ku-sneeze hadi siku yake nzima inaharibika, na kazi haifanyiki tena ofisini.
So, tujitahidi kuchagua deodorant au perfume zenye harufu ya kawaida si kali sana.
Detroit officials are telling workers in city offices to leave smelly perfumes, deodorants, and other strongly scented toiletries and items at home.The signs are going up in response to a federal lawsuit, which also awarded $100,000 to Susan McBride, who sued the city under the Americans with Disabilities Act, claiming a coworker's perfume made it difficult for her to breathe and do her job.
The city fought the 2008 suit, citing a lack of a medical diagnosis and arguing that McBride is not disabled. But the move this week to warn workers to refrain from using strong-smelling products is a clear sign the city is following through with some of the measures the judge ordered last month. The signs will warn workers to avoid "wearing scented products, including ... colognes, aftershave lotions, perfumes, deodorants, body/face lotions ... (and) the use of scented candles, perfume samples from magazines, spray or solid air fresheners."
At some point in our working lives, we all have sat next to someone with a heavy hand on the perfume bottle, hairspray can, or in their choice of deodorants. Dealing with an over-scented coworker can be difficult, but when you've got a medical condition, like asthma, it can literally and negatively affect the air you breath. McBride's attorney, Ann Curry Thompson, says it's not uncommon for stories about a suit like this to be the subject of lots of jokes, but that's part of educating people about the fact that what is merely annoying to one worker can be debilitating to another.
She likens this education effort to the early days of the campaign to prohibit smoking in workplaces. It's not fair to put the chemical-smells issue completely into the hands of employees to deal one-on-one with each other, the Detroit-based workplace attorney told Yahoo! Shine. "It pits employees against one another," she said. "When there is no policy, no alternative than to go directly to the offending employee and ask the employee to stop, it tends to cause conflict."
So while this case does not mean every employee can slap up a sign telling coworkers to use smelly products on their own time, it does provide a precedent for employees to show their own employers about the need for a policy related to chemical smells.
Right now, employees have to individually make the case that they are physically impaired because of another coworkers' product-use, said Robin Bond, a workplace attorney. But the success of this case, brought using the Americans with Disabilities Act, could lead to more cases like it as scent-plagued workers find they may have an effective tool to force employers to deal with differences over overly fragrant coworkers.
Thompson says her research revealed that many employers do have policies regarding chemical scents. But, clearly, many more do not. "I'm persuaded that over time people will understand that scents in the workplace are chemicals just like ammonia or anything else that some people are sensitive to in varying degrees," Thompson said.
Has an over-scented coworker ever driven you to distraction? While there can never be a truly smell-free work environment, do you think there should be chemical-scent policies in the workplace similar to no-smoking policies?
So, tujitahidi kuchagua deodorant au perfume zenye harufu ya kawaida si kali sana.
Detroit officials are telling workers in city offices to leave smelly perfumes, deodorants, and other strongly scented toiletries and items at home.The signs are going up in response to a federal lawsuit, which also awarded $100,000 to Susan McBride, who sued the city under the Americans with Disabilities Act, claiming a coworker's perfume made it difficult for her to breathe and do her job.
The city fought the 2008 suit, citing a lack of a medical diagnosis and arguing that McBride is not disabled. But the move this week to warn workers to refrain from using strong-smelling products is a clear sign the city is following through with some of the measures the judge ordered last month. The signs will warn workers to avoid "wearing scented products, including ... colognes, aftershave lotions, perfumes, deodorants, body/face lotions ... (and) the use of scented candles, perfume samples from magazines, spray or solid air fresheners."
At some point in our working lives, we all have sat next to someone with a heavy hand on the perfume bottle, hairspray can, or in their choice of deodorants. Dealing with an over-scented coworker can be difficult, but when you've got a medical condition, like asthma, it can literally and negatively affect the air you breath. McBride's attorney, Ann Curry Thompson, says it's not uncommon for stories about a suit like this to be the subject of lots of jokes, but that's part of educating people about the fact that what is merely annoying to one worker can be debilitating to another.
She likens this education effort to the early days of the campaign to prohibit smoking in workplaces. It's not fair to put the chemical-smells issue completely into the hands of employees to deal one-on-one with each other, the Detroit-based workplace attorney told Yahoo! Shine. "It pits employees against one another," she said. "When there is no policy, no alternative than to go directly to the offending employee and ask the employee to stop, it tends to cause conflict."
So while this case does not mean every employee can slap up a sign telling coworkers to use smelly products on their own time, it does provide a precedent for employees to show their own employers about the need for a policy related to chemical smells.
Right now, employees have to individually make the case that they are physically impaired because of another coworkers' product-use, said Robin Bond, a workplace attorney. But the success of this case, brought using the Americans with Disabilities Act, could lead to more cases like it as scent-plagued workers find they may have an effective tool to force employers to deal with differences over overly fragrant coworkers.
Thompson says her research revealed that many employers do have policies regarding chemical scents. But, clearly, many more do not. "I'm persuaded that over time people will understand that scents in the workplace are chemicals just like ammonia or anything else that some people are sensitive to in varying degrees," Thompson said.
Has an over-scented coworker ever driven you to distraction? While there can never be a truly smell-free work environment, do you think there should be chemical-scent policies in the workplace similar to no-smoking policies?
Monday, March 15, 2010
HARUSI TRADE FAIR
For Your Information,
We have a new project coming up which we think would be of interest to you and your business.
This is the 'Harusi Trade fair', the first time ever a Trade fair for suppliers and vendors for all wedding requirements. We are Organising Tanzania's First and Premiere Wedding Fair to be Held on 9-10 April at Diamond Jubilee Hall
This is aimed at Bringing all wedding Related Suppliers together Under One roof to Give the Discerning Prospective Bride and Groom and their families a wide Varied Choice for their "Once in the Life time Indulgence"
Weddings are a huge affair in Tanzania and we have almost 100 weddings a month taking place around the country. This fair is the perfect opportunity to introduce suppliers to consumers and vice versa.
Your organization plays a key role in this Wedding Industry and therefore we would like you to be part of this project whereby you will be able to introduce your products and services to potential clients.
Please find attached details about this project as to how you can be part of this Exciting event.
Please NOTE we have Limited Space and Currently Offering an introductory 10% discount for Upfront 100% booking payments.
I look forward to hearing from you and hope you will join us in this unique project
Looking forward to hear from you soon.
Kind regards
Yours Truly
Mustafa Hassanali
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