Okay. Here's a weird one. I had a candidate once who worked for a very well-known website. I recruit said executive to another very-well known website. I present the offer. She accepts. We discuss relo. She talks about what kind of place she is going to buy. My client sends the offer letter. And then . . . nothing. She doesn't call. She doesn't write. She doesn't respond to my voice mail messages that grow increasingly concerned for her well-being. The last message I leave, I tell her that if she's changed her mind, that's understandable. It happens . . . but she needs to let me know so that we can explain her change of heart to my client. I wait, and wait, and still, no response! About a month later, I check her profile on LinkedIn and see that she's joined yet a third big Internet company. I still do not understand her disappearing act. I honestly just don't get it. But needless to say, my client will never, ever, ever, ever, ever consider hiring her in her lifetime. She is so very TJNTIY. So much so I'll say it twice. TJNTIY.

Some people air their former and current employers' dirty laundry on their blogs, and then wonder why they can't get interviews. Nobody wants to be next on these folks' wall-of-shame, and all it takes is a recruiter who knows how to type the candidate's name into Google. TJNTIY.

Anytime candidates bad mouth their company, be a boss or the board, it reflects poorly on them. Its always my goal to present candidates who have been successful in past roles, not those that carry baggage from getting burned. What candidate's might not realize is that when they bad mouth the boss/company it makes me wonder what the other side of the coin is and why they couldn't push through the problem for a good outcome. Great employees overcome adversity. TJNTIY.

Why did you leave your last job?* I really wish some interviewees would think before they responded. Sure, honesty is the best policy - but telling the whole story may not get you hired! Interviewer (ME): "I am on the fence - Give me one reason why I should consider hiring you and one reason why someone else would be a better candidate" Bad Answer: You could only imagine some of the answers I got with this question!! If my interviews were a sitcom .. would anyone watch? When I ask this question - my ratings would go UP! TJNTIY

My pet peev and the thing I now always check first when I am interviewing potential employees is that what their resume says and what they've actually done are similar. Unfortunately the practice is rampant. So don't lie on your resume kids. I also prefer much more than a 2 page summary for candidates. On the other side of the equation I find wearing a suit to an interview is usually a bad idea. Its rare that interviewers are wearing suits themselves and seems only to alienate you at the outset, at least for the roles and workplaces I tend to gravitate toward. TJNTIY.