US/LM 3

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This week, I had to recruit one person, but there were 20 candidates. During all of the interviews, I became extremely observant of the body language of the applicants, I could even sense their fear, their lack of confidence. It was as if I could touch their fear, it was not abstract but nearly material. I could do the difference between the normal stress during an interview and core fear of the individual. It is difficult to explain that. My boss who was with me was surprised that I was eliminating 2 candidates that he really liked. For these 2 I was sensing a deeply rooted fear even though they had the qualifications and good speaking skills (important for selling products...). So my boss told me to keep them on a short list with 2 other names, and he will do an investigation. He came back 2 hours later and told me to delete their names from the short list. In fact he talked with their former employers who told him that these 2 guys were problematic as they lack honesty, they were arrogant with the clients etc.
Since I started this sub I started to remark easily these fears, lack of confidence in people, even in casual conversations. I just hope that this sub does not make people arrogant :-)