Reasons for Rejecting Job Applicants (Part Four)

1. Poor personal hygiene.
2. Lack of tact.
3. Lack of maturity.
4. Lack of courtesy - ill mannered.
5. Puts down past employers.
6. Lack of vitality.
7. Critical of former employer.
8. Name Dropper - stressing who they know in the company.
9. No sense of humour
10. No interest in community activities.

Reasons for Rejecting Job Applicants (Part Three)

1. Limp or lifeless handshake.
2. Shows high degree of indecision.
3. Sloppy or incomplete application form.
4. Merely "shopping around" for a job.
5. Wants job for only a short time.
6. Too cynical.
7. Intolerant, strong prejudices.
8. Narrow interests.
9. Failure to ask questions about the job.
10. High-pressure type.

Next week ten more....

Reasons for Rejecting Job Applicants (Part Two)

1. Fails to Look interviewer in the eye.
2. No job experience.
3. lacks knowledge of opportunities in the field in which trained.
4. No interest or knowledge of company or industry.
5. Unwillingness to relocate.
6. Poor handling of personal finances.
7. Inability to take criticism.
8. lack of appreciation of the value of experience.
9. Late for interview without a good reason.
10. Failure to express thanks for interviewer's time.

Ten more next week.......

Reasons for Rejecting Job Applicants (Part One)

About fifty people apply for every job.  Five people are interviewed.  One person is hired.  So forty-nine of fifty job applicants are rejected.

Employers have any number of reasons for rejecting job applicants.  Based on reports form Personnel and Human Resources Offices of 153 companies, in no particular order, here are ten:

1. Poor personal appearance.
2. Overaggressive, conceited, "know it all'.
3. Poor voice, diction,grammar,inability to express oneself.
4. No purpose and goals for vocation - lack of life planning.
5. Lack of interest and enthusiasm - passive, indifferent.
6. Lack of confidence and poise - nervous, ill at ease.
7. Too much emphasis on money - interested only in best salary offered.
8. Poor or borderline academic achievements.
9. Unwilling to start at the bottom - expects too much too soon.
10. Makes excuses, reluctant to talk about unfavourable things in his/her work and academic record.

Next week, ten more......