A survey of personnel executives at 200 of the Fortune 1,000 companies provided the following unbelievable but true examples of job applicant behavior.

• "The reason the candidate was taking so long to respond to a question became apparent when he began to snore."

• "When I asked the candidate to give a good example of the organizational skills she was boasting about, she said she was proud of her ability to pack her suitcase 'real neat' for her vacations."

• "Why did (the applicant) go to college?" His reply: "To party and socialize."

• "When I gave him my business card at the beginning of the interview, he immediately crumpled it and tossed it in the wastebasket."

• "I received a resume and letter that said that the recent high-school graduate wanted to earn $25 an hour-'and not a nickel less.'"

• "(The applicant) had arranged for a pizza to be delivered to my office during a lunch-hour interview. I asked him not to eat it until later."

• "(The applicant) said she had just graduated cum laude, but she had no idea what cum laude meant. However, she was proud of her grade point average. It was 2.1."

• "(The applicant) insisted on telling me that he wasn't afraid of hard work. But insisted on adding he was afraid of horses and didn't like jazz, modern art, or seafood."

• "She actually showed up for an interview during the summer wearing a bathing suit. She said she didn't think I'd mind."

• "He sat down opposite me, made himself comfortable, and proceeded to put his foot up on my desk."

• "The interview had gone well, until he told me that he and his friends wore my company's clothing whenever they could. I had to tell him that we manufactured office products, not sportswear."

• "(The applicant) applied for a customer service position, although, as he confided, he really wasn't a people person."

• "Without asking if I minded, he casually lit a cigar and then tossed the match onto my carpet-and couldn't understand why I was upset."

• "On the phone, I had asked the candidate to bring his resume and a couple of references. He arrived with the resume-and two people."