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Originally Posted by 2001ragtop
7) If you go to interviews and you sneeze, or touch your face, or put your finger in your ear, or touch any part of your face, you likely just blew your chance to get hired. If you blow your nose into a handkercheif, you just kissed your job goodbye. And do not smell like any kind of strange foods or smell like B.O. This is basic advice, but unfortunately most people even though they are super intelligent, cannot do these simple things. Don't place a finger into any orifice on your body. It's pretty simple. I have had many engineers approach me and they are picking their nose at the same time or pulling on their nose hairs. I don't know what professional really means anymore. I guess it's okay now to be disgusting. Also, if you aren't wearing a suit/jacket/tie/slacks looking as professionally as you possibly can, you just completely screwed up.
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I totally agree with you - a lot of people aren't completely out of the college mindset before they go into corporate. Luckily, I don't fit this stereotype, or at least I don't think I do. And, I'll never eat curry or garlic while working a corporate job.
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Originally Posted by 2001ragtop
14) I dearly hope you are not being racially profiled. You did not say your race, but it likely is not impossible that this kind of thing happens.
Good luck.
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Man, I don't know, my defense company story definitely sounded that way. I actually had an offer in my hand and then they took it away!! I had already completed my security clearance paperwork BEFORE the interview, which they said would be internally reviewed BEFORE the offer. I'm Indian but I was born in the U.S. (I have NO accent), and have no financial discrepancies either (no loans, no bankruptcy, etc.).
Anyway, thanks for everyone's advice. I've seen a lot of it before, but there are things that are new as well - like finding a headhunter. I was trying not to do that, only for the sake of not venturing into the unknown, but I'll give it a try now. On that topic, I have a question - since you end up giving a cut of your cash in one way or another to the headhunter, how do you know you are not being ripped off? How do you know a headhunter is legitimate and isn't going to try and get you into a consulting position that has a contract attached to it?