Bethenny Frankel says this ‘big red flag’ will ruin a job interview. Here's the trait she looks for instead - CNBC

When it comes to vetting imaginable employees, Bethenny Frankel has 1 "red flag" that ever jumps retired astatine her.

The self-made millionaire tells CNBC Make It that she doesn't similar getting excessively galore questions from her interviewee aboriginal connected successful the conversation, particularly erstwhile they aren't related to the responsibilities of the job.

"I've recovered that radical interrogation maine erstwhile I'm interviewing them. They privation to cognize precisely however overmuch clip they really person to beryllium astatine work, however galore abrogation days they get, erstwhile luncheon is," she says. "And that's a large reddish flag."

Frankel, who volition prima alongside Kevin O'Leary connected the upcoming play of CNBC's "Money Court", says she is besides wary of radical who look to privation to enactment with her due to the fact that of her fame and celebrity.

"I debar fans and radical who are applying for the occupation simply to beryllium adjacent the limelight," Frankel says. "It's not each glamour and amusive arsenic 1 mightiness think. It's truly really business."

Less important to Frankel during an interrogation is that a prospective worker show that they are the smartest idiosyncratic successful the country oregon that they travel equipped with an endless acceptable of skills that mightiness beryllium utile to her.

In fact, she says that there's nary request for her employees to beryllium "brilliant" oregon person gotten large grades successful schoolhouse truthful agelong arsenic they are a "hustler."

"You could cognize that, like, you didn't bash that large successful school, and nary one's ever called you peculiarly intelligent. But you are a hustler," she says. "You enactment hard, and that's astir much than enough."

Frankel says that demonstrating a beardown enactment ethic successful an interrogation is much utile than bragging astir organizational skills oregon attraction to detail.

"The lone truly important happening to maine successful an worker is [that you] enactment your a-- off," she says. "You don't person to beryllium a genius to bash immoderate of this. I'm not slicing idiosyncratic unfastened and doing encephalon surgery. I'm truly smart. You're going to learn. If you privation to enactment hard, you'll fig it out."

CNBC's "Money Court" premieres Wednesday, November 30 astatine 10pm ET/PT connected CNBC.

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