As a hiring manager fresh from a round of interviews, I've got a recent perspective on job candidates from the other side of the desk. And it isn't pretty.
Most young candidates seem clueless about how to conduct themselves in meetings about a job.
I'm a marketing manager at a magazine publishing company. Here's what happened when I wanted to hire an assistant. To start, I was astonished by how many candidates didn't prepare for interviews. Only two of the dozen candidates I met with bothered to locate a copy of our magazine in advance. One young man said he'd been trying to break into marketing for two years.