On the Job: Most important job interview question. Do you fit in?
| March 2, 2008 |  View for printing |
As a professional recruiter, Tony Beshara has personally arranged more than 100,000 face-to-face job interviews, and there's one thing he knows for sure: You can have qualifications a mile long, but if you're not liked by the people doing the interviewing and hiring, you can forget being offered a job.
''Whether you are liked or not accounts for about 40 percent of the hiring decision,'' he says.
What about whether you can do the job or not? ''About 20 percent,'' Beshara says. ''That's just the first hurdle.''
By Anita Bruzzese
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