Truth 50Graphology: palm reading or valid tool?

You want to know what the candidate is really thinking and how this candidate will perform in your organization. You can ask great interview questions, but these questions may or may not reveal the truth about that candidate.

What would be ideal, you think, is if you could get inside the head of your candidate and figure out what’s really going on. Then, you think, you can make a better, more informed decision. Maybe you could just hire a palm reader to figure out the whole truth. Or maybe you could use graphology—the practice of analyzing handwriting.

That’s exactly what 85 percent of European companies do in their selection process. And it’s not just considered hocus-pocus anymore in the United ...

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