“Today, recruiters must hire based on the skills and potential that an applicant has to develop more skills, because to a large extent the success or failure of a person in a company has to do with having the skills, both soft and techniques, to carry out this work”, says Gabriela Rodríguez, regional director for Latin America at evalua.com.
But recruiters don’t just pay special attention to the interviewee’s body language. Now that job interviews take place more frequently by video call, Miranda Guzmán, senior advisor of the recruitment company Michael Page, assures that they also value other aspects.
“We consider that they have taken the time to take the interview in a suitable place, with good light, focused and without distractions such as the telephone, although sometimes we believe that it is not possible to perceive it, it is totally perceptible”, he indicates.
Your movements speak: what do recruiters look for during an interview?
The importance of body and non-verbal language does not diminish. In the 1980s, the psychologist Albert Mehrabian concluded that 7% of the impact of a message comes from verbal communication, 38% from the vowel, that is, from the tones and nuances in a dialogue, while the rest corresponded to the signals and gestures, among other elements of the environment.
For the experts consulted, today at least 80% of the communication in a job interview is non-verbal, so that what is not said by the applicants does have an important weight in a personnel selection process. On the one hand, verbal communication emits information, but on the other, body language denotes personal states and attitudes.