Job interviews can be a truly nerve-wracking, and at times mildly terrifying, experience.
No matter how hard you try to play it cool, the pressure to impress your prospective future boss can you make you do â or worse, say â some pretty awkward things.
Plus, sometimes things happen during a job interview that are completely out of your control, like accidentally rocking up wearing the same outfit as the interviewer, or being on the receiving end of a very sweaty handshake.
Alas, job interview blunders are much more common than you might think.
Everyone has experienced at least one awful job interview in their lifetime, so we asked the Mamamia staff members to share their worst job interview stories.
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"I went to shake the woman's hand at the end, but accidentally scratched/cut her with my nail and she started bleeding," explained Polly. "Another time, I had a job interview at a tiny little media company. Their office consisted of a single room so I literally sat and waited on a couch opposite while the guy finished up interviewing another girl. When it was my turn, he said, âTo be honest, I think youâre going to find it really hard to top that.'"
"I had a guy ask me to define the word 'pragmatic' and to this day I find that word very hard to define. I just⊠couldn't. I knew what it meant and could use it in a sentence. But I'm not a f**king dictionary. I don't know how to define it," Jessie explained.
"The job interview went south quickly when the male manager asked me about my marital status etc and my plans for the weekend and asked if I was a party girl⊠then when he called to say I didn't get the job, he asked me out," said Deborah.