How talking about an inheritance may hurt your prospects of landing a new job

Rosemary Haefner in Top 10 interview mistakes, CNN.com, May 12, 2008, reports on a variety of mistakes job applicants make during their interviews.

The following is one of the mistakes from her list:

Applicant 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.”