nt 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.

And it 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 thi

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.

And it 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

iew “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.

And it 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 thi

rom 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.

And it 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 thi

onesty.

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.

And it 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 thi

nt 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.

And it 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”, or 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.

Handwriting analysis is a recognized