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According to communication experts, non-verbal behaviors are believed, and our words are not, when the two communicate different messages. This is especially true in emotional communications (and aren't all important communications emotional?). When someone is visibly sad and they say, "I'm not sad," do you believe their words?
Through coaching thousands in job search I can tell you that both verbal and non-verbal areas need work, but it is the non-verbal area that is destroying the chances of most job seekers. Most of them are nervous before an interview and their non-verbal behaviors express their emotional state. It is what non-verbal behaviors do.Their words are confident, but this is not what they communicate.
Non-verbal behaviors are largely a subconscious expression of our emotional state. So how do we control something that is subconscious? "The Path to Job Search Success" gives you seven techniques and one of them worked for Tess.
Tess had a degree in English from Wellesley College, and an MBA from the University of Chicago. She was articulate and smart, and she had failed in 59 straight job interviews over a period of 19 months! She was and is human, so her expression was one of fear, nervousness and exhaustion. But once she regained control of these non-verbal behaviors she got an offer on her 60th attempt, and it was for $20,000 more on the salary line than her last job.
Effective communication is a life skill that affects virtually everything. This book goes into the neuroscience behind effective communication--both verbal and non-verbal--and then adapts it to the world of job search. However, it could be used in any situation. And my successful clients are using these techniques long after they've re-entered the work force.
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