The body language that's making you unemployable
How to repel interviewers with non-verbal cues. Why have you been to multiple job interviews and had no job offers? Why do your interviewers look at you as if you're Nigel Farage? hare on twitter Why do they stare out the window while you explain your motivation for working there? If you’re interviewing for a job in an investment bank, your lack of success may be because banks are conducting purely ‘ informational interviews’ - namely interviews with the sole intention of extracting market intelligence from unsuspecting candidates. Then again, it may also be because your body language during job interviews is a big turn-off. Why is body language so important to interview success? A seminal study on ‘non-verbal cues in the employment interview’ published in the Journal of Applied Psychology 30 years ago, found that interviewers see motivation, social skills and ‘hireability’ as highly correlated. Motivatio...