Daniel Haarburger always asks job candidates a simple, common interview question: What does your day-to-day life look like?
One candidate gave him a textbook example of the “worst response that I’ve ever heard,” Haarburger, the CEO of Denver-based dog toy company Woof, tells CNBC Make It. The answer, he recounts: “Life’s a hot-mess express right now. It’s pretty wild.”
“I was like, well, that’s not how you want to start an interview,” says Haarburger, who’s hired for more than 50 different roles since launching his company in 2019. “So that [interview] didn’t go too well. That was someone blatantly saying, ‘I don’t know what the hell I’m doing.'”
You do need to be honest during job interviews, Haarburger notes. Lying about who you are and what you’re capable of, including on your resume, isn’t just unethical — if discovered, you’d likely be immediately disqualified from the position. Plus, bosses often want to hear about your weaknesses, hiring expert and staffing agency LaSalle Network CEO Tom …