Top 30 Reasons Applicants Are Rejected
Compiled by Weber & Company
Applicants are frequently rejected because of the following:
- Too interested in starting salary
- Uncertainty of wants in job/career or long-range goals
- Overbearing, overaggressive, conceited, "know-it-all"
- Inability to express self clearly -- poor voice, diction, grammar
- Lack of interest and enthusiasm - passive, indifferent
- Lack of confidence and poise - nervousness, ill-at-ease
- Poor scholastic record - just got by
- Unwillingness to start at the bottom - expects too much too soon
- Makes excuses - evasiveness, hedges on unfavorable factors in records
- Lack of tact
- Condemnation of past employers
- Lack of maturity
- Lack of courtesy - ill-mannered
- Lack of vitality
- Fails to look interviewer in the eye
- Handshake
- Unhappy married life
- Friction with parents
- Merely shopping around
- Little sense of humor
- No interest in company or industry
- Emphasis on whom he/she knows
- Cynical
- Lazy
- Narrow interests
- Inability to take criticism
- Lack of appreciation of the value of experience
- Late to interview
- Failure to express appreciation for interviewer's time
- Fails to ask questions about the job