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Clear clues point to job interview tattle-tales.

Australasian Business Intelligence, July, 2003

Jul 18, 2003 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX)

An Australian expert in polygraph testing and recruitment states that about 45 per cent of job candidates lie at an interview. Addressing a conference of the Recruitment & Consulting Services Association in Sydney, Steve Van Aperen said there are many verbal and physical clues that a person is lying. They include changes in pitch, tone, or modulation of the voice, increasing delays in answering questions, and the use of vocal hesitancy to "buy time" before an answer. Physical indicators include shifting position, leg movement, and touching the face. Van Aperen advises interviewers to ask questions relating to past behaviour, and repeat a question if the reply is evasive.

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