Is honesty and integrity important to
you in a new hire?
If so, how do you identify this
in your job applicants?
Zeroing in on seeming weaknesses in the
resume, then asking pointed questions about them at the interview?
That might work, but only if your
potential employee doesn’t understand the interview “game.” With more and more
job seekers either taking courses in both resume writing and interview skills,
this strategy is becoming less and less likely to work. The whole focus of
interview courses is how to overcome shortcomings at your interview.
Perhaps you expect to hear the answer to
the honesty question from your applicant’s references?
You probably won’t. References are
becoming more and more useless and employers become very wary as to what they
say about previous employees. Unless your applicant was fired for a strongly
proven dishonest act, it is highly unlikely the previous boss will give any
indication of dishonesty.
There are various expensive and
complicated personality profiles that claim to give this and other information
as part of a complete package. They take time, they cost a great deal of money,
and they are seldom very specific on the topic of honesty.
But there is a way you can tell if
you job applicant is inclined to be dishonest. You can tell it immediately
– within seconds; you can do it yourself, and for free.
This way is by looking at their
handwriting.
Based on a
Government issued list of the top ten things employers look for in a new hire,
this article shows you how to identify
these in writing.
Iit is easy to
get a writing sample from an interviewee – just hand them a pen and paper and
ask them to write down why they want this job, or what are the main skills and
attributes they bring to the job. If you there is some area you
particularly want to know more about, or if their resume is telling the truth
about, ask them to write something about that.
After all, you are the interviewer and
the interviewee presumably wants to impress you and get the job, so will
probably be very willing to do whatever you ask in the hopes that the position
will be his/hers.
The writing will tell if this person
is a habitual liar, if they occasionally “bend the truth”, if they are
manipulative – of the truth and other things or people.
It takes about 10 minutes to learn how
to identify honesty from writing, and after than you can tell it almost
instantly by scanning a piece of writing.
At a more advanced level, it can also
tell you where, if they are writing about it, they are lying. So if, for
example, there was a situation in which you thought an employee was being
deceitful, by asking them to write out the story as they see it, then looking at
their writing, you could then tell if they were lying, and at what point in
their story the lies appear.
It is perfectly ethical to “read”
handwriting of job applicants.
Honesty and
Integrity are not only important in the workplace. They are important in every
area of life. In the book "The Relationship Checker" an entire chapter is
devoted to this topic.
Click on this link to read this free chapter,
then scroll down the page to "Free Chapter" to learn more about
Honesty
and Integrity from Handwriting.
Handwriting analysis is a recognized
branch of psychology, a part of body language, and just as you are free to
make whatever assumptions you like from the body language of another person, you
are also free to make whatever assumptions you like based on “written body
language.”
And just as someone who has studied body
language can tell more than someone who has not, someone who has learnt a little
or a lot about handwriting analysis can tell more about someone from that than
can someone who has never studied the science.
So if you learn how to identify
honesty and integrity or anything else from handwriting, it is totally ethical
to use it in any situation you wish.
And the beauty of it is that it works
so well. I encourage you to
learn more
about the science of handwriting analysis and use
it in your place of work.
