Job interviews: How not to get the job.

This morning a very attractive young woman came to apply at my restaurant.

Several of the male employees were extremely excited about the prospect of working with this young lady.

I was more interested in what kind of employee she would be as opposed to how attractive she was, but I did notice her incredibly good looks.

Unfortunately, she either didn't really need the job or she was so taken by her own self that she thought that the world revolved around her.

Needless to say, she was not a good fit. I'm going to list below all the things that she did wrong.

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1 - Loitering

She loitered around the front of the restaurant for about a half hour before coming in to apply.

I thought this was very odd. She stood around the front of the restaurant, in the entryway, and continually walked back and forth while she was on her phone. It seemed like she was having a very heated conversation with someone.

During this time several the male employees noticed her and became enamored by her good looks. However, the manager also noticed her and couldn't help but say "What the heck is she doing out there?"

She was being the wrong kind of noticeable.

2 - She was in a rush

You shouldn't be in a rush when you're trying to get a job.

She filled out her application in less than 5 minutes, which is incredibly unusual. It usually takes most people about a half hour. You tend to want to make sure to get every single detail down on these applications.

She didn't seem to care about that, which is fine as long as she filled it out correctly.

However, by the time the manager came to see her she was so frustrated and hurried that she couldn't even stand still. It was clear that she had no time to wait for anyone else.

It only took the manager about five minutes to get to her because we weren't that busy.

She was acting like a spoiled kid with no patience whatsoever.

3 - Arrogance

The moment that this young lady told me she would like to fill out an application I knew that she was going to be incredibly conceited and full of herself.

After watching her walk around outside for about 30 minutes I could tell from her body language that she was very much like one of those girls at the club that is too good to talk to you.

That's not how we act at our jobs. We aren't at the club, we're a restaurant.

4 - Talking back

This was the clincher.

Monday is a pretty slow day so we don't usually have a full staff. In particular, we don't often have most of the managers here. You could say we have a skeleton crew.

There was no one here to do a full interview with the girl. She wanted to get hired right now but we couldn't make that happen.

I don't know what was going on in her life or what she did before this. She told she wanted to be a waitress, and that manager comes in tomorrow. He is the only one that can interview servers.

When I told her that he came in tomorrow, she told me she would take any job.... she just want to be hired right now.

In my opinion, waiting one day is not that bad. I told her as much, in a nice way mind you, and she told me right in front of the assistant general manager the following hilarious statement....

"What you guys can't hire nobody? You ain't got the ability to get jobs for people? What you running here?"

Of course that was all she needed to say to let us know that she was not a good applicant.

The last part is of course, proper English...... but I'm not even going to bold that one. Today's world is so full of different nuances regarding the English language that I hesitate to call anyone out on it.

When it comes time to get a job you need to make sure you are....

1 - On time and dressed for the part.

2 - Prepared to wait.

3 - Have a good attitude.

4 - Say Yes sir or something like that.

Maybe some part of it is a generational thing, but when you come to a job acting like you just don't care about anyone but yourself, then you're not going to get it no matter how good you look.