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When interviews go wrong

VIRGINIA GALT

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Everyone knows what corporate recruiters think about job candidates who are late, ill-informed or unkempt. Turning the tables, consulting firm Development Dimensions International Inc. and online job site Monster.com, surveyed more than 3,765 job seekers about what turns them off – to the extreme that they withdraw their applications. The response was emphatic:

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