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Here Are All The Mistakes Young British People Are Making In Job Interviews Right Now

Nov 4, 2014, 19:17 IST

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At Business Insider's London office we recently sifted through more than 100 job applications - and conducted 50 or more personal interviews - with people who want to write for our new UK site, launching later this year.

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We were impressed with the calibre of the candidates. Everyone we saw was smart and accomplished, and they seemed to "get" our all-digital, fast-paced, anti-boring way of handling business news.

But ... the British are human, too. They make mistakes.

We don't hold minor mistakes against people - in fact we hired some of the people who committed these flubs - but every faux pas we describe here comes from real-life job interviews.

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