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What's the word that CEOs don't like the most?

(NBC)It's a four letter word that's not a curse word, but it may as well be for many employers conducting job interviews. WCUA-TV's Deannna Durante reports .

The tie, the resume, the handshake, you've got the basics down, but that isn't all you need to know.

"Interviews are like a huge part of getting a job now."

And it's the interview that can make or break your chances no matter what you wanna do.

"Do you like the doctors, like... like a red-head, do you know?"
"More of like a tack, am I a tack in there?"
"It's like...you know, like a hotel, like in the, you go there..."
"It's a whole bunch of different feels like, um..."

Did you hear it? Maybe you're so used to it, you missed it.

Job interviewers say it's the four-letter-word that can keep you from getting that job. Listen again.

"It's like...like..."
"Like..."
"Like, you know, like..."
"Like..."

And chances are, your kids say it, a lot.

"Umm...I'm a minister like..."
"Like shirt malls."
"Like give it back..."
"It's OK, like..."
"GPA...marketing..."

Luis Lamoure is the director of Career Services at LaSalle University. He says students may not know it, but that crutch word "like" can sink their shot at landing a job.

It's the repetitive and destructive use of it, um, if it happens every once in a while, but if every other word is "like", um, you know, it, it does sound, um, makes them sound a bit, maybe immature.

"I mean like..."
"Like in the..."
"Which fetters us like..."

It's a catch-22, for some students, they know they've said it, but...

"Yeah, I knew that...I ve noticed that."
"You've noticed that , but you can't make it stop?"

"This isn't a job interview."
"So it's ok, coz' it's just a TV interview."
"Yeah, I know how to turn on, turn on my arm, so it switches."

"It's something I've always done, so, I definitely need to work on that."
"You wanted to say..."