One - Never Mentioned - Job Interview KILLER

Good manners; civility; concern of others; they are some of the reasons the job interview problem discussed in this article will seldom see the light of day in any venue.

And hope the observations cited herein — regarding why someone may not get hired in a timely fashion and why those job seekers rarely hear back from an employer after they interview — are never associated with you - even when such job candidates bring excellent skills and job know-how into their job interview.

In fact, this job interview issue is so damaging to a job search that is more similar to throwing solid human excrement into the middle of a birthday party. Is it too powerful a picture to evoke? Therefore... Decide for yourself by reading on.

No, I am not referring of job search difficulties such as presenting an HR rep a terrible CV (which is bad enough on its own), or being late to a job interview, or picking the incorrect attire, or not studying a possible company before to a job interview. No, the issue I speak of here will seldom - if ever —come to the attention of the job applicant who permits this detrimental job interview issue to prevail.

"Did he smell like feces to you?"

Don't laugh. Thousands of interviews have been conducted by this author. Far too many of them held me hostage within a small-to-medium sized office where, when the door was closed for privacy, a stale meaty stink would begin accumulating inside the room, causing just minutes of my life to hurt into horrible quarter-hour intervals.

I don't intend to be harsh - which is exactly why most such job seekers with the difficulty mentioned above would never be told as to why they did not get that all crucial call for a second job interview. After all, who is going to be the person to phone and notify a job prospect that they were removed from consideration of employment owing to an overt human smell? What would the legal implications be for a firm that made such a phone call?

After all, each one of us may find that our deodorant fails and as a result body odor emerges - which is pretty normal. At some time in our life it happens for many of us, we become worried and we sweat, and since job interviews make some of us quite nervous it may lead us to emit greater amounts of perspiration; ergo - heightened body odor.

In my experience, some job applicants, on the other hand, established new marks for interview smells, sometimes without even recognizing it at the time that they were carrying their résumé, their employment references — and a foul fragrance so powerful that it ruined any chance of being recruited.

I provide two real-life instances to demonstrate this issue; situations that may cause you to shudder, yet examples that I have observed and experienced both with my eyes and my nose. Please pardon the vividness of the words to come, they are the only way I know to describe the negative bias this job interview issue generally brings to bear for both the affected job seeker and the innocent employers merely attempting to hire the finest person possible to fill their job vacancy.

Example one — focuses on an educated, professionally dressed lady in a very elegant and appropriate dark-blue business suit (it was winter season); which in later reflection was good for us and for she, considering the consequences seen. She was interviewing for an office manager position at a multiple practice complex of medical experts. As she entered the room and the door was closed behind her there was an instant and strong fragrance of urine, which blended and tangled with a light, lemony perfume she wore, enough to give the lemon scent a distinct twist! An odor that intensified its demand of attention as the opening minutes of the interview began. What was creating the odor? We did not know and were too polite to inquire (please refer to the first line in this article) (please refer to the first sentence in this article). So we swiftly concluded the job interview, only to find afterward that she had left a little wet mark in the chair she occupied; true story.

Example two — another such job related meeting lasted just five minutes or so owing to a little, but brown colored, stain that a job candidate had with him as he rose to present himself there in the small conference room where the interview was to place. A stain that was plainly visible by us as he turned to sit, a brownish colored mark, having developed within the creased region of this job candidate's pants; a spot on the pants where his bottom touched the seat of the chair - a stain throwing up a strong scent of well warmed human excrement. Very fresh feces, I may add. A scent that had already penetrated the room, as he had been requested to await ten minutes or so while I finalized some notes I was writing before to the job interview about to take place.

Some readers may accuse this author of using a few isolated dramatic occurrences in order to get media attention - and they would be correct. Many excellent job candidates lose out on great job offers as a result of this interview issue, so if the problem is widespread, it should be addressed in a public forum rather than being discussed in the job interview itself - which will almost never happen due to good manners, politeness, and consideration of others, as mentioned in the first sentence of this article.

Probably most job seeker readers of this page will believe they will never have to cope with such a nasty problem as those described above. Maybe the defeated job searchers cited in the cases above had health conditions that worsened their bodies and produced the violating situations; it's probably true. Does such information remedy the situation for them or the employers, or others? No.

And too often it is not a health issue at fault; I have attended such interviews where way too much cologne or perfume was applied by the job candidate, enough to literally chase out of the room job interviewers having allergic reactions to the chemicals hanging in the air of the room; again, a true story.

Same for job candidates who arrive carrying a very strong smell of fuel; in more than one case job candidates had just filled their their vehicles with gas and inadvertently spilled gasoline heavy upon their shoes and/or hands and the odor carried into the room, other job candidates sported a healthy farmyard character, even as job interviewers sometimes noted a series of brownish carpet stains from something those candidates had stepped into before arriving for the job interview.

Whether it's a case of unexpected diarrhea, a step into a putrid pile, an over measure of cheap (or expensive) cologne or perfume, weak urethral muscles causing a leak, profuse body odor from sweat - whatever the offending scent, double check yourself for these related job interview issues prior to attending your next job interview. And do not think that you are the one person in the world who such a thing will never happen to, even when you are driving into a gasoline station for a fast fill-up on the way to a job interview.