Article by Jonathon Molesky (Florida, USA)
As an executive search consultant for over 20 years, and as a professional who offers my clients one of the very best guarantees in my industry, I must produce results. The worst outcome for a recruiter is an unknown or unforeseen problem to arise regarding candidates placed at a client. So, a better way had to be found to give an edge in all areas of personality understanding and evaluation.
As we all know, humans are complex and unpredictable creatures. In my quest to break the genetic code of hiring, I explored many different tools to help my understanding of people in order to create a 3 dimensional view of their motivations, fears and beliefs. My goal was to identify what drives an individual in their decisions outside of what they tell me in a well rehearsed interview. Armed with this knowledge, I know what further to ask the candidate as well as references with the goal of being able to avoid any land mines (dishonesty traits, depression, etc…).
The early part of my search brought me to the directly examine many of the psychology tests currently available such as Myers Briggs and MNPI, these are well studied psychology tests that take multiple choice answers in from the candidate and spew data out. This in itself is reasonably acceptable and helpful because it places humans in well known categories and does serve as a strong indicator of overall personality. One of the key weaknesses with these tests is they rely on honesty. With the candidate knowing what position they are interviewing for, this seemed too easy for someone to fill in boxes they felt matched the position better. So, the search continued.
It turns out that handwriting analysis is a much more complete way of examining what is truly happening in a person’s mind. The reason is what you are getting on that handwritten piece of paper is a picture of their mind at that moment which is as unique as their fingerprint. It really is ‘mind writing’ since a pen and your hand are merely tools for translating what one’s mind dictates. Also, handwriting has a unique capability to help determine dishonesty traits such as pathological lying, evasiveness, hypocrisy, insincerity and a loss of morals. These traits will show up in people who have these strong, sociopathic and degenerative personalities.
Fortunately, in the high end recruiting world, rarely do we find these pen strokes since it is extremely hard to ascend to an Executive Vice President or a CEO by having terrible traits.
However, in dealing with the public or someone who is under suspicion, this is a tremendous advantage. There are some writing characteristics that have been proven to show up on 80+% of inmates in our prison system. That in itself doesn’t mean they committed a specific crime or are up to no good. But think about it! Are those odds you’ll take in your business? I am sure the Goldman Sachs would take 80% all day long.
Where this can be used to increase profits for your company:
-Avoid hiring your own employees who are interested in out-smarting you!
-Avoid doing business with the wrong person or company
-Add as an extra stream of income in divorce or cheating cases. Provide your client with an in depth analysis of ‘the other person.’
-Help to solve inside jobs by having all of those possibly involved write what happened in detail at the time of the crime. The culprit may be able to lie. However, their sub-conscious mind has much more trouble. There is no need in strapping guilty and non-guilty employees up to a polygraph. Simply hand them a pen and a blank piece of paper and ask them to write down what happened.
In conclusion, an important distinction must be made. Handwriting analysis is not a predictor of the future. Handwriting analysis, which began in the 1600s before modern day psychology was invented, is based upon scientific study and has no connection with other ‘un-scientific ways’ of predicting the future (tarot card reading, psychics…etc). Where this does is to give you an edge is it shows you what stone to turn over or where someone’s pressure points or weakness are located. Can you think of where this might be helpful? It is truly amazing at the accuracy you will find using this tool
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P.S. One question I get is…”Well, what if someone knows handwriting analysis and changes their handwriting just for the test.” My answer is, “I hope so.” The reason is twofold. First, people who are truly rotten to the core know this about themselves and don’t have much interest in self exploration or enlightenment. So, learning handwriting will expose who they are to themselves! Not a very appetizing idea. Second, if a person takes the countless hours to learn this and then change their handwriting for the better, this shows a person who is committed to lifelong learning and improvement. We call this Graphotherapy. If you consciously change your handwriting to improve yourself, it actually stimulates that part of the brain where that trait originates. If done consistently, the person’s personality will change…just like changing a habit through repetition in just a month or two. In an extraordinarily rare case where a criminal mind tries to fake it one time, since there is no consistent practice, mistakes and lack of fluidity will tip off a trained handwriting expert and thus expose them for what and who they really are! Isn’t it time to put the odds firmly in your favor?
Article by Jonathon Molesky (Florida, USA)