Sophie van der Zee, Assistant Professor at Erasmus School of Economics, recently appeared in an article from Intermediair to give her expertise on why people lie or bluff during a job interview. People often pretend to be better than they actually are during a job interview, but why?
Occasional bluffing during a job interview, such as rounding up your last salary, has recently become increasingly common: US research shows that eight in ten job applicants bluff at some point during an interview. Lying can mean making something up completely, but more often people are merely exaggerating things, Van der Zee says. In addition, next to dating, a job interview is the most common situation in which people bluff, often because someone is trying to impress the person who they are talking to.
Still, it remains difficult to determine when someone is lying or bluffing. 'There are certain behaviours liars exhibit more, such as looking up and fidgeting with their fingers. However, not everyone who fidgets with their fingers is lying,’ Van der Zee argues.
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You can read the full article from Intermediair, 23 September 2024, here.