If you’ve got a big job interview coming up, turns out, you can botch the whole thing in your first sentence.
Researchers at Yale University have found that interviewers have already decided whether they’ll hire you within the first seven words you say. In these snap judgements, they’ve decided if you’re from a lower, working class family, and if so, they’re moving on.
“While most hiring managers would deny that a job candidate’s social class matters,” Yale Professor Michael Kraus says, “In reality, the socioeconomic position of an applicant, or their parents is being assessed within the first seconds they speak.”
The research showed that pronunciation was the most important thing interviewers keyed in on to make these snap judgements and not so much the content of the interviewees speech.
Van, who has interviewed a lot of people over the years in his job as a Program Director, totally agreed that he knew in the 1st few words of an interview whether he was interested in the interviewee or not.
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