I am still at my desk because I have a client that insists on seeing five people on Monday morning.  The prez called me at 4:30 CST and are very specific about what they want – female, attractive, four to five years experience, marketing degree from certain school (the guy pimps his alma mater), under [...]

So today, glorious fucking Wednesday, I find a new FAIL in my little slice of recruiting heaven.  One of my candidates needed to fax in a background check to be in the November orientation class and my client has been waiting since noon CST Monday for this sheet of paper.

“Oh, I sent it already.”

“They must [...]

1. Dealing with hardcore resume liars. (I notice you have experience with an operating system. I ask you about installing a very simple application. You hem and haw and say, “well, maybe I didn’t know it all that well.” Oh, and that’s what EXPERT means on your resume?)

2. People who don’t put the months on [...]

- We cut a manager loose for whacking off  to porn on the office computer at the restaurant he was running.  Now, having sex with yourself is more common than having sex with somebody else in the workplace -  this way some hornball doesn’t need to talk anybody else into it – but can you [...]

I am a former Director of HR for a company of around 10,000 employees. I had jobFAILs and FAILs in general crashing around me everyday. Some sample jobFAILs to start out- you tell us what your jobFAILs are.

-Calling “anonymously” to rat out your ex-boyfriend for selling drugs at work. When I figure out who you [...]