Lack of proper job and career planning-purposes and goals ill defined.
- Lack of knowledge of field of specialization not well qualified.
- Inability to express himself/herself clearly and loses temper easily.
- Insufficient evidence of achievement or capacity to excite action in others.
- Not prepared for the interview-no research on the company.
- No real interest in the organization or the industry-merely shopping around.
- Narrow location interest– unwilling to relocate later.
- Little interest and enthusiasm– indifferent.
- Overbearing– overaggressive–conceited
- Interested only in best money offer.
- Asks no or poor questions about the job.
- Unwilling to start at the bottom–expects too much too soon.
- Makes excuses, evasiveness, and hedges on unfavourable factors in record.
- No confidence and pose–fails to look interviewers in eyes
- Poor personal appearance