Body language plays a major role in the interview. These tips reveal how you can keep eye contact with your conversation partner.
- When interviewing you should pay attention to body language.
- Eye contact is important.
- Experts give tips on what is appropriate in the interview .
Do not look at the floor in the interview
In an interview * , it is not just the content that counts - body language also has more influence on the person we are talking to than we might initially assume. If the eyes meet too often, this could create an uncomfortable mood. On the other hand, looking at the floor too often could convey disinterest or shyness .
One thing is certain: eye contact plays an important role in non-verbal communication during the job interview, as emphasized, for example, by the career portal Trainee.de. "If you keep making eye contact during the conversation and keep it up for a while, this signals to your conversation partner that you are interested and open and that they are definitely listening to him or her," the tip says there. Everyone should make sure "that you don't keep your eyes fixed downwards, because in this way your interviewee will use your body language to conclude that you are unsettled".
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Keep eye contact for 3.3 seconds
How long should you look at your counterpart? "It is like eye contact as with all things: the dose makes the poison", the experts describe it on karrierebibel.de and report on an experiment with more than 400 probands in which Alan Johnston from University College London recorded the optimal duration of eye contact the trail wanted to come. The result: After an average of 3.2 seconds of constant eye contact, the test subjects experienced discomfort. Anyone who looked them in the eye for a longer period of time tended to be classified as rather threatening - with each additional second the sympathy values decreased accordingly.
A British study by Nicola Binetti showed a similar result - 500 visitors from a London museum (from 56 different nations and ages 11 to 79) took part in the experiment. Here too it came out that eye contact should not last longer than 3.3 seconds, reports karrierebibel.de. Until then, people found it pleasant. Researchers at the University of Freiburg have also found that eye contact that is too intense triggers psychological resistance. The experts' conclusion is: no eye contact in one piece for longer than 3.3 seconds .
Tips for the interview
Obviously you won't count the seconds in the interview . On karrierebibel.de the experts give some help.
- Whoever talks blinks more often than one who is silent. If the reverse is the case, one can assume that the listener is bored.
- In fact, frequent eye-pecking is a gesture of submission.
- The rigid, intense look, on the other hand, is seen as a sign of strength and charisma.
- However, visually fixing one's counterpart can also be intimidating. The scrutiny looks unsettling.
Conclusion: Attention is important in the interview. But you shouldn't overdo it with eye contact. Staring at someone is a no-go.
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