Imagine you are conducting an interview, and in the middle of it, a coworker pulls you out of the room to handle business matters. Upon returning, you finish the interview, walk the candidate to the door, get back to your office, and then reach into your purse to grab some cash for the vending machine. That’s when you notice your wallet is gone.
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But where did it go? It was only you and the potential candidate who were in the room, and the wallet couldn’t have grown legs and walked away … So that only leaves one alternative. The candidate stole your wallet! Which literally happened in Japan not too long ago!
A Yokohama man was arrested shortly after the interview, because, you know, it wasn’t too hard to track him down! All his contact information was in his résumé! The man said, “I wanted to work for that company, but since I haven’t got a job I needed money.” How much money was in the wallet, you ask? It contained ¥50,000, or $7,248.22 USD! HRSBT is not condoning theft, but had the thief just taken a few bucks from the wallet—and not the whole thing—he probably would have gotten the job, and he probably wouldn’t have been caught!
This isn’t the first time HRSBT has reported on job candidates doing unusual or dumb things during an interview. A while back, a potential candidate admitted to taking a framed family photo off the interviewer’s desk and sticking it in her purse. Also, another candidate showed up to the job interview with a pet bird in her shirt pocket.
Even more idiotic, HRSBT reported on a job candidate who showed up drunk to an interview—which in its own right is pretty bad—but the interview was for a job as a taxi driver! To make matters worse, the candidate hit two employee cars on his way into the interview! If desperate times are indeed, desperate, candidates should get creative when applying for jobs. Take Lukas Yla, for example: When he applied for a marketing position, he taped his résumé to the inside of a donut box! Creativity counts for something, and hopefully it doesn’t land you in jail!