How Not to Get a Job: Take that Call

In an article titled "Can This Interview Be Saved?", Vault.com author Hans H. Chen provides an example of how not to get a job:

"I heard a story about a woman interviewing for a job, and she was doing well," said Barbara Pachter, an author and president of Pachter and Associates, a New Jersey business etiquette firm. "And then her cell phone began ringing. She answered the cell phone, had a conversation, and then started to scream at her kids, because it was her kids who called. She went on and on, and then turned to her interviewer and said, 'Oh, my kids will never call me from work.' She didn't get the job. And there's nothing she could have done to recover from that faux pas."