Here Are All The Mistakes Young British People Are Making In Job Interviews Right Now

At Business Insider's London office we recently sifted through more than 100 job applications - and conducted 50 or more personal interviews - with people who want to write for our new UK site, launching later this year.

We were impressed with the calibre of the candidates. Everyone we saw was smart and accomplished, and they seemed to "get" our all-digital, fast-paced, anti-boring way of handling business news.

But ... the British are human, too. They make mistakes.

We don't hold minor mistakes against people - in fact we hired some of the people who committed these flubs - but every faux pas we describe here comes from real-life job interviews.