{"id":161,"date":"2006-07-10T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-10T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=161"},"modified":"2006-07-10T15:14:51","modified_gmt":"2006-07-10T20:14:51","slug":"the-truth-about-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/07\/the-truth-about-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth About Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting article &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixwise.com\/newsletters\/05\/06\/29\/the_top_seven_signs_that_someone_is_lying_to_you.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The Top Seven Signs That Someone is Lying to You<\/a> &#8211; that provides clues to look for when talking to others face-to-face.<\/p>\n<p>The article is a quick read and well worth your time. An excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>No eye contact.<\/strong><br \/>\nGenerally, if someone is lying they will not look you in the eye, at least during a certain part of the conversation. Normally, people make eye contact for at least half of a conversation, so anything less than this could be suspicious. One caveat: there are some people who will take great pains to make eye contact with you even if they&#8217;re lying, simply to make you think they&#8217;re not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Part of what we do at Select Metrix is sort out truth from embellishment in the sales hiring process. We typically direct the first in-person interview along with our customer in a committee-style interview format. There are two reasons behind this approach; first, to place pressure on the candidate that imitates a sales presentation and second, to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selectmetrix.com\/Newsletters\/2005\/2005_May_3.html\" target=\"_blank\">drill down<\/a> on candidate responses to get to clarity. The 7 tips from this article will be most helpful going forward in that activity. (h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/tools.knowmoremedia.com\/cgi-bin\/mt-tb.cgi\/17150\" target=\"_blank\">Landing the Deal<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting article &#8211; The Top Seven Signs That Someone is Lying to You &#8211; that provides clues to look for when talking to others face-to-face. The article is a quick read and well worth your time. An excerpt: No eye contact. Generally, if someone is lying they will not look you in the eye, at least during a certain part of the conversation. Normally, people make eye contact for at least half of a conversation, so anything less than this could be suspicious. One caveat: there are some people who will take great pains to make eye contact with you even if they&#8217;re lying, simply to make you think they&#8217;re&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/07\/the-truth-about-lies\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-2B","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->