Here are some quotes from actual employers, describing actual people who did NOT get the job after the interview (as detailed by OfficeTeam):

 

"The candidate sent his sister to interview in his place."

"The person was dancing during the interview. He kept saying things like, 'I love life!' and 'Oh yeah!'"

"The candidate stopped the interview and asked me if I had a cigarette."

"We had one person who walked out of an interview into a glass door - and the glass shattered."

"An interviewee put his bubble gum in his hand, forgot about it, and then shook my hand."

"A job seeker gestured with his hands so much that he sat on them to stop."

"A candidate fell asleep during the interview."

"Someone showed up for an interview in pyjamas and his hair not combed, like he had just rolled out of bed."

"The candidate had a big rip in the back of his pants."

"An applicant was doing really well in the interview until she got to the reason she left her other job.  She told us everyone was out to get her."

"A candidate insulted the interviewer on his tie."

"The candidate got his companies confused and repeatedly mentioned the strengths of a competing firm, thinking that's who he was interviewing with."

 

According to CareerBuilder.com, here are the top 10 interview blunders:

 

     Candidate answered cell phone and asked that the interviewer leave her own office because this was a 'private' conversation.

     Candidate told the interviewer he wouldn't be able to stay with the job long because he thought he might get an inheritance if his uncle died - and his uncle wasn't 'looking too good.'

     Candidate asked the interviewer for a ride home after the interview.

     Candidate smelled his armpits on the way to the interview room.

     Candidate said she could not provide a writing sample because all of her writing had been for the CIA and it was 'classified.'

     Candidate told the interviewer he was fired for beating up his last boss.

     When an applicant was offered food before the interview, he declined saying he didn't want to line his stomach with grease before going out drinking.

     A candidate for an accounting position said she was a 'people person' not a 'numbers person.'

     Candidate flushed the toilet while talking to interviewer during phone interview.

     Candidate took out a hair brush and brushed her hair.