Man Arrives At A Job Interview And Immediately Fails The Initial Trick Test
No matter how many job interviews you’ve had in your life, it doesn’t make them any less nerve-wracking. Every job search starts from a blank page where the first impression (and the last) can make it or break it. No wonder a whopping 93% of job seekers have experienced great anxiety related to job interviews, according to a recent JDP survey.
But according to one Reddit user who posted on r/LifeProTips, no one should forget that an “interview starts immediately” once you set your foot in the door.
In a viral post that amassed 45.1k upvotes and 2.4k comments, the redditor recounted how a candidate “blew his interview in the first 5 minutes after he entered the building.” And the story is absolutely illuminating. Let’s read the full incident down below, which should give you a lot to think about before you take a shot at your next job interview.
A person shared an incident of a candidate blowing his job interview in the first 5 minutes after he entered the building
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Image credits: Petras Gagilas (not the actual photo)
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Image credits: sawta2112
And this is what people had to say about the incident
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