Candidates get a lot of advice about how to handle interviews. Prepare your answers, research the company, don’t be late, follow up afterwards. What gets talked about far less is how often the employer is the one who gets it wrong.
Recruitment consultant Kat has spent years watching interviews go sideways — and not because of anything the candidate did. The interviewer who clearly hadn’t opened the CV before walking into the room. The question that crossed a legal line, dropped casually into the conversation like it was small talk. The manager checking their messages mid-sentence. The accidental overshare that told the candidate more about the company than any amount of preparation could have.
In this video, Kat and Dan go through five categories of interviewer fail — all drawn from real experience, all more common than they should be. Some of it will make you laugh. Some of it might make you wince. And if you’re someone who hires people, at least one of these will probably land closer to home than you’d like. Worth finding out which one.