Read this to find out which advice you can really trust!

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When you read advice about interviews, you’ll always read that it’s important to “have a firm handshake,” “be professionally presented,” “make eye contact,” “sit up straight” and “smile.”

If you’re like me you’ll read this advice, roll your eyes and go really? That’s it? That’s the nugget I am going to get from reading this article?

So I thought it would be more useful to look at whether research actually supports this advice and if it does, how can you apply this to your next interview.

Read on.


Be sincere.
Research from Princeton University shows that we make judgements about someone’s thailand phone number library attractiveness and trustworthiness within one tenth of a second.

Now I know a lot of people will give up and say what’s the point – the interviewer writes you off without even thinking about you. And that may well be the case if the interviewer does not trust you or think that they could work with you. But to me this reinforces two things that are really important.

Firstly that split second judgment the interviewer is making about your trustworthiness shows just how important it is to be sincere about the roles that you apply for. Your sincerity will come across in your demeanour, the way you relate to the interviewer, your desire to answer the questions and in your body language.

Secondly this research also highlights how important it is to look your best and to look the part. This helps the interviewer place you in the role and focus more on what you are saying rather than having to process two judgments – “can I really see you doing this job?” and “do you sound competent?”