The first question listed in the assignment struck us as interesting, so we are addressing it first. The question asks, “How can you tell if someone is lying in an interview. As first thought, it seems like a very gray area question where there is no real concrete answer, but upon research we discovered that it is very answerable. While, you may not know if someone is lying every time, there are some very key things to look for while conducting an interview to tests the story’s truthfulness. The first part technique is paying attention to someone’s eyes. A person’s eye language can tell you a lot about how sincere someone is being. One way to tell what one’s normal eye language would be is to establish a “baseline.” What this …show more content…
When I am having a conversation with someone I like to look them in the eyes and voice is also something that I pay attention to as well. I always feel as if someone genuinely cares about what you are saying if they look you in the eyes while you are having a conversation. Our last question to address “How can an interviewer take notes and still carefully observe an interviewee?” One article mentioned that if you are going to take notes you need to make sure to not take away from the interview itself. So, when you are taking notes it would be a good idea to have the questions typed up so you don’t get the answers mixed up. This would mean that you need to come up with or already know the questions you are going to ask, have them typed and printed so that you can easily write down your answers without having to fully stop the interview. Another good idea when taking notes would be that you make the questions either yes or no or short answer questions. Doing this helps keep things from becoming complicated and keeps the confusion to a minimum. I think that if you are going to ask a question that has multiple parts to it you need to split it up so that it can either be answered with a short answer or a yes or no as I mentioned earlier. If you are going to ask a question that is a little more complex than that you might want to record that part of the …show more content…
These statistics aren’t very reassuring. Especially since the odds of detecting a lie is not considered to be much more than just tossing a coin in the air. If you tell someone their odds are just 50/50 then they are very likely to take time when making their decision whether it be minor or more