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Fiona - What fun! You cannot imagine what delightful joy you have introduced
me to with this new, kind-of, lighthearted, approach to a study that I have
thought about so differently for so long. I know much of this summer's
reading re: Handwriting. Analysis. will be a lot "zippier" than it has in the
past, you have made it seem as though I am starting on an entirely different
subject! Fun!! Sincere thanks, Barbara
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"If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance." Why Employers Should Use Handwriting Analysis The obvious answer is BECAUSE IT WORKS! But let’s look in more detail about how it works, and in what ways it can help the employer. First the employer hires staff. How does he decide on their suitability? In a small company he will just advertise, read resumes and interview candidates who wrote good resumes. How effective is this method? Not very! A good resume writer can make anyone look good! (I know this: it’s part of my work to teach people how to write just such resumes!) Someone with good communication skills can ace any interview. Someone with poor communication skills can fail an interview even for a position for which he is perfect. (I know this too – I also teach interview skills.) Not to mention honesty – how can you tell either from a resume or an interview if the candidate really IS “honest, reliable, hard worker, quick learner” or any of the other “hot” personal skills appearing in resumes nowadays? Answer: You can’t! Some people are great liars; others just don’t know themselves very well. Enter Handwriting Analysis. With a brief look at the candidate’s writing the handwriting analyst can tell all these things, and more. With an in depth study of it, she can identify the entire personality, strengths and weaknesses. A gift for any employer! If the writing can be analyzed before the interview, interview questions can be directed accordingly, but even after first interview, it can help enormously in deciding who to eventually hire. And hiring is only the start. So now the company has its staff and is working hard to make a profit. Perhaps the salesman is not working out as hoped, perhaps there is a conflict appearing between two of the staff members, or someone is just not happy in their job. Having their handwriting analyzed can identify any of these problems (and more) and clarify the best direction for resolution. Someone leaves or retires. Who to promote? Yes, you’ve guessed it – analyze the handwriting of the possible promotees and eliminate the age old problem of “promoting people to the level of their incompetence” meaning that someone who is good in one job will not necessarily be good in another. Find out before you promote! Expansion comes along. Who can take care of this new direction the company is taking? Writing will tell. Perhaps you’re thinking this is all very well for me to write since I am a handwriting analyst, but is there anyone out there who really USES this stuff in business? Absolutely, positively, yes there is. In Europe, approximately 90% of companies use handwriting analysis as part of the hiring process, and for other personality issues within the company. In Israel the percentage is even higher – about 98%. If fact, an Israeli told me that in her country, if one wants to have one’s handwriting analyzed for general interest there can be a year’s wait for an available analyst! In North America 10% of Fortune 500 companies use it, and that is a statistic that is continually growing. But what about all the other methods of evaluation, other assessment tools? Yes, there is a huge variety of assessment tools available to business, but the advantage of handwriting analysis is that it does not depend on the individuals self opinion. For example, if someone takes a personality, or work aptitude profile that involves answering a list of questions, how they see themselves has a huge impact on the result. Most of these tests are designed so they are hard to manipulate, but self image, how one genuinely sees oneself affects the outcome enormously. Handwriting analysis is not affected by self image. Self image does show, and shows very clearly, but so does potential, so the person with low esteem but high potential will show as just that. And the opposite is also true – confidence hiding low potential can be discovered very easily. Another benefit is that even a trained handwriting analyst cannot manipulate or change their writing for even a couple of paragraphs and still write fluently. It just can't be done. Any writer naturally slips back into their natural style very quickly. Handwriting analysis can be used in conjunction with other profiles. Being Myers Briggs qualified, this is my preferred combination, but it can be effectively used with many other profiles. Myers Briggs gives a general picture, depending on which report is selected, it can be very general or more specific, but it is never as specific and detailed as a handwriting analysis report. I use the two together regularly. Myers Briggs gives a great overview, and there is so much printed material on the sixteen “types” that result, that it is very easy to then find out a great deal of detail about the person. Then I apply handwriting analysis to give me the finer tuning, the individual detail that Myers Briggs cannot. Together they make a powerful team, useful in any area of interpersonal communication, hiring, career redirection, promotion, people problems and many more. So, in conclusion, why should employers use handwriting analysis? Because it can save them time, money and a great deal of frustration and many headaches.
And as a footnote: Because most of or you will like to learn more about identifying traits from handwriting, here is how you identify the ones mentioned above - honest, reliable, hard worker, quick learner, and self confidence. Potential I won’t discuss, since it varies so much depending on what it is potential for. Honesty shows in circle letters (a, o, g, d) with no loops or hooks within the circles. Any loops or hooks will have their own meaning, but will diminish honesty. Reliable shows in rhythm of the writing. Make a dot below each place where the writing returns to the baseline. The more regular the spacing between the line of dots, the more rhythm is present, the more reliable and stable the writer. Also look here for writing with neither a far left (withdrawn) slant or a far right (overly emotional) slant. Hard worker will show in someone with energy, loops in the stem of the lower case p; in loyalty shown in round dots above the lower case i (not a drawn dot, just a dotted round dot), reliability will also be present as described above. A strong starter will write with t-bars heavier than the rest of the writing and for follow through, a good finisher, look for long, strong lower extenders (the strokes below the baseline on g, j, y). Keen comprehension, or the quick learner will retrace the tops of n and m, making them needle sharp. But any well formed m and n shows some form of effective thinking. Ill formed m and n shows a lack of real thought and effort (or perhaps ability) to learn. And lastly, self confidence: here there are several things to look for. Firstly the size of the personal pronoun “I”. It should be at least as large as the rest of the capitals, and look like it’s a good size compared to the rest of the writing. And the signature ideally should be slightly larger than the rest of the writing. A small signature is someone who is trying to appear modest, and overly large signature is someone who is trying to put over an larger than life image. Then look at the t-bars. Low t-bars show low goals. High t-bars show high goals. T-bars floating in space above the t-stem are dreams, and will probably stay that way! So look for t-bars between the middle and top of the t-stem. Obviously these are just a few of the things the employer has to consider, but it’s a good starting point. If you are an employer
or hiring manager, do you use handwriting analysis as a tool?
© Fiona
MacKay Young 2004
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