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QUESTIONS FOR HEADHUNTERS, RECRUITERS, AND AGENCIES

TEN MEMORABLY BAD QUESTIONS
The following examples of really dumb questions that candidates
have actually asked were compiled by Bill Lins, CEO and cofounder
of Jobs 4 Grads Now (www.jobs4gradsnow.com), an education,
coaching, and career guidance service. Asking these questions is
more or less guaranteed to cost you the job.

1. If you were a fruit, what fruit would you be?
2. What do you want me to do if it’s raining and I cannot walk to
work? Can you pick me up?
3. What does a Chamber of Commerce do? (When the candidate
was interviewing for a job at a chamber.)
4. Can we wrap this up fairly quickly? I have someplace I have to
go.
5. What is your company’s policy on Monday absences?
6. If this doesn’t work out can I call you to go out sometime?
7. If I get an offer, how long do I have before I have to take the drug
test?
8. When you do background checks on candidates, do things like
public drunkenness arrests come up?
9. Can I get a tour of the breast pumping room? I heard you have
a great one here and while I don’t plan on having children for at

least ten or twelve years, I will definitely breast-feed and would
want to use that room.
10. So, how much do they pay you for doing these interviews?

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