This is the quintessential candidate who’s been unemployed for an extended period — the one you spend an exhausting amount of time preparing, giving every tip and trick in the book to help land the job. You introduce him to the decision-makers, and then he flubs the interview and doesn’t get hired. Instead of taking accountability, he blames the interviewers, the hiring company, and the recruiter. For context, this candidate should know that we’ve hired exactly eight males and five females — twelve hires in the last three weeks — since we first met him. The same type of person who gets great service at a restaurant and doesn’t leave a tip or a good review — but always makes time to leave a bad one.