Afraid you won't be able to detect an abuser on your next job interview? In his book Bully in Sight: How to Predict, Resist, Challenge, and Combat Workplace Bullying: Overcoming the Silence and Denial by which Abuse Thrives, Tim Field outlines these bully characteristics:

• Cavalier attitude
• Delegation and dumping
• Differing values
• Divided loyalty
• Duplicity
• Envy
• Evasiveness
• Failure mentality
• Fait accompli
• Favoritism
• Focus on the victim
• Frequent moves
• Humorlessness
• Inability to cope with failure
• Inability to plan ahead
• Inconsistency
• Indecision
• Ingratitude
• Insatiability
• Insensitivity
• Insincerity
• Interference
• Imposition
• Jekyll and Hyde persona
• Know-it-all attitude
• Lack of competence
• Lack of contingency planning
• Lack of foresight
• Misrepresentation
• Mood swings
• Need to assert authority
• Negative language
• Opportunism
• Plagiarism
• Poor judgment
• Poor listening skills
• Resoluteness
• Rigidity
• Self-importance
• Selfishness
• Shifting goalposts
• Short-term thinking
• Short-term memory
• Spinelessness
• Steadfast...