Career Management and Job Search for Top Talent Blog

If you answered: "when I first meet the person." You need to read on.

Many years ago we completed a search for a CFO of a major healthcare company in Orange County. The CFO later retained us to conduct a VP Finance search for him. In the middle of the search he called and said "So, I was in my office and just happen to look out my window. To my amazement I see this guy with a surf board hanging out the back of his car and a big dog in the back seat. If that wasn't weird enough, he got out of the car and started changing from a bathing suit to a business suit right in the parking lot. I started laughing and thought nothing more of it, until a few minutes later my assistant tells me she is going down to bring up my next interview. Guess who walks in my door."
The CFO felt this person showed such poor judgment that he wouldn't hire him regardless of his qualifications.
The interview begins as soon as you enter the parking lot.

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