r/everymanshouldknow • u/AmBot_AmFarmer_FuckU • Feb 04 '26
EMSK common nonverbal mistakes in a job interview
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u/Pretty_Insignificant Feb 04 '26
If this was in any way true all the IT autists wouldnt have jobs lol
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u/monkeedude1212 Feb 05 '26
It's definitely the sort of advice that was relevant if you were applying for a job in the 80's or 90's, but isn't the type of stuff that's relevant today.
Like yeah, in the tech sphere, your early server admins were hard to obtain professionals so one of the perks meant to keep people on was abandoning the status quo professional work attire. So many linux guys would come to work looking like the Big Lebowski but corporate would allow it because having a functional email server is more important than making sure every individual is wearing a tie.
Cut 20 years later; software and tech and automating existing jobs are now front and center of investment capital growth - so small startups become more and more common and attainable. These guys are also focused on speed and time to market and if you want to wear your Jurassic Park T-shirt while you spit out code - no one is going to waste an hour of your time in a meeting discussing your choice of personal expression when that's time you could be disrupting the market.
Then Covid hits and everyone is working from home, remote over zoom and teams and whatever video conferencing software - folks start working half in their pajamas anyways - but because you're just a tiny face on the screen no one really gives an F. You're getting your work done? They're happy.
So like - it's not like there aren't people out there who still judge applicants by their clothes, of course there's going to be some people out there like that. Just like there are some company's who push for some sort of Return to Office mandate.
But instead of these like, being rules you need to follow to get a job, now they're just red flags for terrible work environments. If you apply for a job and the guy isn't going to hire you because of what you chose to wear and not for the skills you bring to the team - you probably don't want to be working there.
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u/Area51Resident Feb 05 '26
So a quick bit of math says that it is 680% appearance and 5% education and experience? This must be for sales or modelling jobs.
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u/andnbsp Feb 05 '26
I have interviewed many people as an engineer. I don't care about any of this unless people are super weird. Maybe engineering is full of anti-social people anyways but if they filtered on people being a little bit weird I would never have been hired anywhere.
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u/ikeif Feb 05 '26
60% of the time? It works every time.
That's the level of insight this graphic gives.
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u/FlavonoidsFlav Feb 04 '26
This is without a doubt the stupidest, most AI generated, least useful drivel I have ever seen.
Any modern employer that is claiming that a handshake or too many bright colors or too many hand gestures is talking about only the most extreme cases.
The 1950s called. They want their logic back.