25 Red Flags In Applicants That Interviewers Missed And Later Regretted

People who speak in superlatives rather than answering questions directly. Turns out the guy while super excited to work for me really didn't understand the role. I ended up firing him the last day of his 90-day probation period despite spending an enormous amount of time with him trying to get him right.

My boss hires and I kinda get to give input during their first trial shift which is almost always 2 hours with me. The number of people that my boss say are 'great' that end up being absolutely trash is staggering. My boss has no clue how to read people and even a complete moron is considered great for her. I suppose that's why we have been trying to fill our main administrative position for 5 months now and have gone through 20+ hires that quit fast or ghost us. One that stands out is an old lady that didnt have any experience in the field. She couldn't operate a computer which is central to.the job!

That one dude had an amazing part of his CV which we got too attracted too and ignored the other jobs which had 3 lines each. He basically never turned up and lied so often about the reasoning why he was never there. Had about 20 different stories, all similar, none coherent. The other dude was fresh out of college, didn't realize which college and it was one of those c***py we'll teach you everything theoretically but nothing practically ones. He had no skills whatsoever and could talk about of his a*s for 20 mins, not being able to make a sentence which sounded even remotely like what he was aiming for. Both got employed at the same time, both left at the same time. Not only was there the money there was the pressure on the team to pick up after them all....the...time.

Too happy and friendly, as strange as that sounds. We all thought she just seemed too jazzed on life but did not want to seem like salty b***hes so we shrugged it off. A week later I fired her for doing absolutely nothing. Literally nothing. She would complete a task and sit there doing nothing. Day three she brought a book to work, I thought it was because she read at lunch. Nope. Read when she was bored after stopping working. She was happy as heck the whole time. Deeply oblivious to that this was not the way of things. I did not have the time or grace to rewire her so back to pizza hut she went.

Applicant wasn't looking for this exact position, but rather was running away from her previous career. Was an interesting person with lot of potential, though. Didn't fit in, was dissatisfied with everything and two years later left.