What NOT to do in that job interview.

In one capacity or another, I have been hiring young lawyers for the last 25 years and I know from personal experience that law schools graduate a lot of folks who, notwithstanding a first-class legal education, lack the social skills and common sense to handle a job interview in anything but a disastrous fashion.

Thanks to Reuters, here are some excellent ways to insure that you not only don't land the job of your dreams, but instead provide conversational fodder for the water cooler crowd:

• Answer your ringing cell phone during the interview and then ask the interviewer to leave their own office because "this is a private call."

• Tell the interviewer you won't be able to stay with the job long because you think you might get an inheritance if your uncle dies -- and your uncle isn't "looking too good."

• Ask the interviewer for a ride home after the interview.

• Sniff your armpits on the way into the interview room.

• Tell the interviewer that you cannot provide a writing sample because all of your writing has been for the CIA and that "it is classified."

• When offered food before the interview, decline saying "I don't want to line my stomach with grease before going drinking."

• Brush your hair during the interview.

Now go get that dream job.