10 Sticky Job Interview Situations and How to Handle Them

Job interviewing can be an unnerving experience, but if you know how to handle some of the stickiest situations encountered in interviewing, you can be that much more confident. Here are 10 of the stickiest. 1. The Bad Interviewer . Not every professional who conducts job interviews with candidates knows how to conduct an interview effectively. In fact some are downright lousy at it. A bad interviewer might be unfocused, disinterested, unprepared. He or she might dominate the interview by doing all the talking or might ask inappropriate and illegal questions. The unfocused, unprepared interviewer probably hasn't read your resume and maybe can't even find a copy . This hapless soul doesn't even know what to ask you. Be sure to offer this disorganized interviewer a copy of your resume while asking, "May I take you through some highlights of my career?" While the bigmouth interviewer is holding forth, make as many mental notes as you can (or jot them dow...