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Why
employers do not hire!
Here is a helpful guide on
what employers not look for in a potential employee. The listings
was taken from the book "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" by Thomas
Buffington and Associates.
- Lack of planning for career - No purpose or goal.
- Lack of interest and enthusiasm; passive; indifference.
- Lack of confidence and poise; nervous; ill at ease.
- Never heard of company.
- Poor personal appearance.
- Overbearing, over aggressive, conceited, superiority complex, know
it all.
- Inability to express self clearly; poor voice, diction, grammar.
- Overemphasis on money; interest only in best dollar offer.
- Poor scholastic record; just got by.
- Unwilling to start at the bottom; expect too much too soon.
- Makes excuses, hedges on unfavorable factors in record, evasive.
- lack of tact.
- Lack of maturity.
- Lack of courtesy; ill-mannered.
- Condemnation of past employers.
- Lack of social understanding.
- Marked dislike of schoolwork.
- Lack of vitality.
- Fails to look interviewer in the eye.
- Limp, 'dead fish' handshake.
- Indecision.
- Friction with parents.
- Sloppy application blank.
- Wants job only for short time.
- Lack of knowledge of field of specialization.
- Parents make the decisions.
- No interest in company or industry.
- Emphasis on whom he/she knows.
- Unwillingness to go where sent.
- Cynical.
- Narrow interests.
- Poor handling of personal finance.
- Inability to take criticism.
- Lack of appreciation of the value of experience.
- Radical ideas.
- Late to interview without good reason.
- Ask no questions about the job.
- Indefinite response to questions.
Source for this material was taken from:
Follow Yellow Brick Road, Prepared for the Office of Career Education/U.S.
Office of Education. by Thomas Buffington and Associates. |
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