Emily Levine has been interviewing job candidates for years. Levine joined recruiting firm Career Group Companies in 2010 and is now executive vice president of the company. She’s recruited for real estate, consulting, finance — even some celebrity A-listers looking for personal assistants.
Throughout her more than a decade in the field, she’s seen some wild job interview behavior. And some of the most bizarre instances happened just in the last year while interviewing younger jobseekers, Levine says. A lot of “Gen Z candidates aren’t aware, I’d say, of interview etiquette.”
A few recent examples of what not to do — and what Levine recommends instead.
One of Levine’s colleagues was recently interviewing someone for a personal assistant role. Through her wall, she could hear her colleague asking, “Hi, do you normally take your interviews from bed?”
When she sprinted over to listen to the call, she learned that the candidate had been explaining that …