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A great deal of nonsense is spoken about interviews. But one, somewhat disarming, “factoid” has proven to be half-true. The surprise is not so much that people make up their mind about candidates in the first ten seconds, but rather that they can be quite accurate in that time.
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© 2009 Adrian Furnham
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Furnham, A. (2009). First impressions. In: People Management in Turbulent Times. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230239616_19
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