Employers can be very sneaky when it comes to your job interview. Here’s just one of the many job interview tricks they may try on you
After an interview, employers will sometimes walk you to your car. It’s meant to seem as a nice gesture, but they’re actually trying to covertly find out more information about you. They’ll be looking to see what kind of car you drive to determine how much they might have to offer you. They’re looking to see if the inside of your car is a mess to determine if you’re slovenly and undisciplined. Obviously, if you’re driving some old beater and you’re applying for a $75,000 per year job, the employer may have some serious reservations about hiring you. If they do, you can count on them low balling you by $10, 000 to $15,0000.
I once had a candidate turned down for a director level position when the hiring manager walked him out to his car. It was a newer high end import sedan. The inside of my candidate’s car was a mess of old newspapers, empty fast food wrappers and hadn’t been washed in what looked like years. The only reason I ever found out the real reason why my candidate had been turned down was because I had already placed several other candidates within the company and had a very open and honest relationship with them.
It would be a stupid thing for you to write a great cover letter and resume, perform well in the interview but lose the job because of your car.
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