Job Interviews: Nonverbal Behavior

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Okay, some of the things that you want to look for on that video tape of your mock interview, or if you're not going to tape it, have your friend observe your nonverbal behavior. And what I'm talking about when I say nonverbal behavior is your eye contact. It is imperative that you make eye contact with your interviewer. Not that you, don't be all staring off, and at the same time, like don't bore holes through him with such an intense stare that it becomes uncomfortable. But you want to make good eye contact. You want to smile. Not like a Cheshire cat nonstop, but by smiling it shows that you're a friendly person. You want to sit with good posture. You don't want to be all slouched over in the chair, don't put your feet up on the table or anything like that. But you want to sit and have nice posture. Your hand gestures are real important. The first thing that you do, is you don't want to cross your arms, because this is a very defensive gesture. It's important to use hand gestures, now you don't want to be all over the place with your hand gestures, but hand gestures are good. They're important. And what your gestures, your hand gestures, your body positioning, your eye contact, that actually shows your interviewer a lot of things about that you are or that you are not. Alert, assertive, dependable, confident, responsible, and energetic. Your body language can express all those things to the interviewer, so that's one of the things that you want to pay real close attention to as you're practicing for your interview.

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