Tesar-Reynes

Every single book on interviewing talks about the need for a good handshake. Unfortunately not everyone seems to read these books.  When I meet a person for the first time, be they male or female, a fishy handshake bums me. As a recruiter, this handshake may cost them a point or two on a ten point scale!

Why?  Because a little voice inside me says that something is wrong with this person.

I’m not exactly sure whether I’m conditioned by what my dad told me about the importance of a good handshake or it’s something more primordial.  There appears to be a little voice inside me that says a good handshake equals self-confidence, a willingness to meet other people and a sense of inner strength.

I don’t know if all of the above is …

Eye contact, like the handshake, is absolutely essential to all physical communications, particularly interviews. In my rating system, you can lose just as many points by not looking at me as by having a fishy handshake.

When someone looks at me when I talk to them I feel that they are processing what I am saying. They’re trying to be committed to understanding what I’m talking about. I can also extrapolate that this person will treat other people in a like manner. Also, when someone silently looks me in the eye while I am talking, they are not talking back or interrupting. I feel that most of the processing is going to listening, and not a rebuttal or trying to act smart.

I lose interest when someone is talking to me, and …