If the candidate tells you point blank he'd rather be working for himself than working for you, there are any number of problems at hand. Possibilities: a. He

If the candidate tells you point blank he'd rather be working for himself than working for you, there are any number of problems at hand. Possibilities: a. He doesn't respect you enough to lie about it. b. He doesn't really want the job, or else he would have lied about it. c. He's pathologically honest. d. He thinks pretending to be "the entrepreneurial type" will impress you, so he tells you an entirely different lie. I'm hard-pressed to think of an innocent explanation for telling a potential employer you would rather not be working for'em.