December 7, 2011
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According to research from Airdri, as many as one in five candidates could be missing out on jobs because of bad handshakes. Airdri worked with language expert Judi James to discover this. According to the press release, Judi James is “renowned”, probably meaning that she occasionally goes on telly to talk about what it means when a Big Brother contestant shouts and cries.
Guru doesn’t know why manufacturers of hand driers have taken it upon themselves to conduct this research, but it is further evidence that success in job interviews mostly comes down to how good looking and confident you are. Guru is impossibly handsome and, if anything (but not), overconfident, but it does make him pity other less attractive people.
With this in mind, Guru suggests that all interviews be conducted in a manner most familiar from the comic farce Cyrano De Bergerac, with answers to interview questions being relayed (possibly from behind a bush), by an attractive and flamboyant intermediate. Only at the job offer stage will the interviewee be revealed, thus ensuring that ugly, fat, limp-handed candidates get a fair ride.
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