leadership in high schools

• Definite turn offs/downers: You look like you hit the bars last night.
• Making longer than necessary eye contact with an interviewer on the panel, insinuating a relationship that does not exist professionally.
• Being too friendly and casual.  Translation:  you do not have the substance for the job and are hiding behind your social self. 
• Calling in saying you will be late.
• Coming in with a bottled drink and drinking it the whole time of the interview while complaining that you are nervous.
• Complaining that the questions are too long.  Translation:  You do not know the answers.
• Coming in with an unbuttoned shirt, no socks and clothes that are too tight and say you are leaving to go to the first bar you find after the interview.
• Saying that you know you should have brought a portfolio, but you did not. 
• Shouting at an interviewer because you asked for clarification, you got it, then get angry. 
• Ask questions at the end of the interview that take longer to answer than the interview itself!
• Ask questions that if you had done your homework,you would not need to ask.
• After you accept the job, call back and say you did not know you were interviewing for that particular job.

The above is all based on my real experiences as a school administrator.

No one can make any of this up!  Do other interviewers have pointers that they can share to assist teachers land a full time job? 

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