Step 1: Ask if the person is right handed.
If yes:
Step 2: Ask him the normal interview question.
Step 3: When he answers the question look at his eyes.
Step 4: As he begins to answer the question or in between, if his eye moves to top left or to middle left then in all probability he/she already prepared the answer for that question beforehand. If the eye moved top left he/she has in all probability prepared a written script and if middle left then he/she has either recited the answer over & over again verbally or he/she took somebody's help who told the answer to be told.
When this method will work:
1 If the person is asked standard question like 'tell me about yourself' or 'where do you see yourself in five years?' he/she will reply with answers that he/she has already learnt by heart. If the interviewer sees that the person has learnt these answers before hand then he can twist the question on purpose to cross-check or see how the person deals with ambiguity.
2. If the answers are more than one word or sentence. Results are best if the answer is in the form of a description. Any time the above mentioned eye movements are observed, the interviewer can understand that the person is "creating" something.
When this method may not work:
1. If a person displays the above mentioned eye movements in almost all answers.. in this case this shows that this person is most probably a creative person who has artistic ability to visualize.
2. If the person is left handed. In this case... in the above mentioned steps, substitute 'left' for 'right'.
General Instruction:
1. Left or Right is from the point of view of the person being interviewed.
2. See to it that no visually distracting elements are present in the interviewing room.
This method is based on the principles of NLP and requires a lot of practice before mastery.
Regards,
Mathew.
PS: Thank you HRX & Atom Leaf for your comments/commendations.
From India, New Delhi
Hi Mathew,
Great..it opened my eyes as well!!
Just a query..what happens if the candidate moves his eye to top right or middle right?..
Can you explain/rationalise these eye movements..may be its got to do with connection of eyeball with brain?..
Cheerio
Rajat
From India, Pune
101Great..it opened my eyes as well!!
Just a query..what happens if the candidate moves his eye to top right or middle right?..
Can you explain/rationalise these eye movements..may be its got to do with connection of eyeball with brain?..
Cheerio
Rajat
From India, Pune
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