So remember how I asked you guys for advice on interviewing someone? (PS thanks for that, I used a lot of the questions you suggested and especially stuck to the "behavioral interviewing" advice!)
Well, I interviewed the candidate. And I'm still trying to figure out what fucking planet she came from.
I think I had mentioned that her resume was a crazy rambling mess. It was in super tiny font, three pages long, and had all kinds of odd things that made no sense. She had clearly copy and pasted some things from job descriptions online because they were in a different font and said things like: "Ability to lift up to 25 lbs" in the section that talked about her duties in past jobs. What made me really angry, though, is that I found things on her resume that were flat-out false and dishonest. (Don't lie on your resumes, people. It's amazing what you can find on Google.) She had a section of accomplishments which included things like "able to use a comptuer" and high school honors (she graduated high school in the 90s. Time to let those go). Then she had a section titled "Awards" which was copy and pasted from "accomplishments." Literally said the exact same thing and did not list one single actual award. There was a long, long, long section of "memberships" which she admitted in the interview that she didn't actually have. She just listed them because she "could" be a member.
In the interview, she hardly stopped talking and I don't even think she took a breath, but the things she was saying were totally scattered and made no sense. I asked why she applied for the job. She said she had no idea. Then she said "money." I asked what she liked about our company. She said she was interested in our robots. Um... we don't make robots, we don't HAVE robots, we have no involvement with robots whatsoever, and I have no idea where she would've gotten that from. She could not even answer direct questions. I asked her to tell me about a time she improved a business process; she dove into a 10-minute story which started with a fly bite and ended with calcium supplements and somewhere in the middle she went on and on about veterinarians. WTF?
I also had a hard time believing most of what she said because of the dishonesty on her resume. And she kind of just seemed insane. We were interviewing her for a job involving statistical analyses and she wouldn't stop talking about teaching (had some experience teaching and is working on getting her teaching license in two different states). This company has nothing to do with teaching. She would never teach here. And yet she brought it up multiple, multiple times throughout the interview. (Her resume also had a ton of stuff about teaching k-12 which I found annoying because it's irrelevant to the position, this company, and our industry for that matter).
The next day I get an EXTREMELY long e-mail from her to thank me for the interview, in which she rambled on and on-- once again-- about TEACHING and what a great contribution it is to the community. Went on to say she's a member in such-and-such societies and detailed their mission statements and what they stand for which was, again, irrelevant to the position. Then she said she was excited about the "two jobs" she interviewed for-- one in statistical analyses and the other in technical writing. Um.. there was only ONE job she was being interviewed for, and I have NO idea where she got the technical writing idea from. The whole thing was just so bizarre. And the robots comment is still baffling me.
Needless to say, I told my boss she's a no-go. Ugh. Back to the drawing board. (Also, who the fuck let her past HR?!)