Mehrabian’s Communication Theory

Landing your dream job requires successfully communicating your value and fit. In other words, your messaging should inspire 100% positive feelings and attitudes from your prospective employers. In Professor Albert Mehrabian’s Communication Theory:

• 7% of messaging pertaining to feelings and attitudes is in the words that are spoken.
• 38% of messaging pertaining to feelings and attitudes is in the manner in which the words are spoken.
• 55% of messaging pertaining to feelings and attitudes is in the facial expression.

Loosely applying these numbers to your job search, landing a phone screen may get you to 45% in a best-case scenario. An in-person interview can get you to 100%, but your chances of landing that interview are only around 2-3%.

What to do?

Regardless of the job title, some kind of screening interview is virtually guaranteed before a hiring decision. In fact, many video interviews happen asynchronously.

asynchronous – adjective (of two or more objects or events) not existing or happening at the same time.

The new normal: an interview doesn’t have to be “live” or “in-person” to be informative or useful. At Connexion Pointe® we don’t believe job seekers have to wait until they’re asked common screening questions to answer them effectively. We recommend using our technology, wherein job seekers can select appropriate questions, record their responses on video, and share that interview via a link in their resume. The employer can spend the same 15-20 minutes they’d spend on a phone screen but get most of the information they’d glean from a 1-hour interview in person. Most of all job seekers have the opportunity to hit your 100% messaging goal 100% of the time.

Without lifting a finger.

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