{"id":4024,"date":"2016-07-15T12:10:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T17:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kbicblog.com\/blog\/academic-medicine\/?p=4024"},"modified":"2016-10-06T13:47:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T18:47:51","slug":"signs-a-candidate-is-lying-during-a-job-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kbicblog.com\/academic-medicine\/signs-a-candidate-is-lying-during-a-job-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs a Candidate is Lying During a Job Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Signs<\/a>Research\u00a0shows that our ability to detect when someone is lying\u00a0is just as good as an estimate or a guess. Perhaps, this is why lies get past us so often because our guess is that the person is not lying.<\/p>\n

For most people, the act of lying elicits several reactions\u00a0because it takes the brain some time to pause and not tell the truth.<\/p>\n

Some of these reactions include\u00a0an\u00a0increased stress response (think Brian Williams), a stance of defiance and dominance (think Lance Armstrong), and a covering of true emotions, otherwise known as the truth (think Anthony Weiner).<\/p>\n

Wouldn\u2019t it be great to know when you are being lied to? Or better yet, that you could get a heads-up before someone starts lying to you?<\/p>\n

Lying is no more evident in public life as it is in everyday job interviews.\u00a0While we may not be able to immediately detect\u00a0if someone\u00a0is lying, there are signs we can look for.<\/p>\n

The key is to put our eyes and our ears into play to differentiate fiction from reality.<\/p>\n

Baseline<\/h2>\n

When detectives are interrogating a\u00a0suspect, they start with a set of non-threatening\u00a0questions\u00a0and observe the suspect\u2019s\u00a0baseline<\/em>\u00a0behavior when answering.\u00a0Then, they move to a difficult set of questions and observe changes in behavior that are indicative of deception.<\/p>\n

For those in human resources management, this could look something like this:<\/p>\n