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Big Blunders Job Hunters Make… hilarious…

June 26, 2010 /

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Daphne Batts sometimes wonders if practical jokers with hidden cameras are spying on her as she interviews people for jobs at Bankrate Inc., an online publisher of financial information in North Palm Beach, Fla.

That’s because job candidates—including experienced professionals—behave so inappropriately that Ms. Batts, vice president of human resources, suspects she’s the target of a prank.

"I find myself peering out my blinds to see if Ashton Kutcher is on my office balcony with a camera crew," she says, referring to the host of the former MTV show "Punk’d," which featured pranks being played on celebrities.

By SARAH E. NEEDLEMAN

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