Weak handshake

[EternalOptimist]

Oh jeez.
I had this big opportunity to break into IB. I researched my interviewer, a doctor of economics from Switzerland.
Practiced my handshake and my interview technique. How I would handle him, the job was mine.


This 25 year old blonde comes in, with her boobies half hanging out.

Those puppies kept staring at my eyes for the whole interview.

<cough> still waiting for my big break into IB

[Mich the Tester]

Is that a euphemism ?

No, that's a brass instrument somewhere between a trumpet and a tuba.

ps I know it isn't

[Boudica]

Is that a euphemism ?

ewwwwww

[SupremeSpod]

Is that the one where you stick your fingers up each others' sleeves?

doesn't it feel a bit creepy?

Nope, remember I said "the pass-grip"...

[Pondlife]

I tend to find a kiss on each cheek makes me stand out from the other guys.

[SupremeSpod]

I tend to find a kiss on each cheek makes me stand out from the other guys.

Which cheeks?

That just marks you down as a potential brown-noser.

[Saddo]

I tend to find a kiss on each cheek makes me stand out from the other guys.

Yeah, but that only works if you can persuade the interviewer to bend over in front of you.

[Drewster]

Urrghh, I don´t like weak handshakes. Urrgh. Yuck.

Eeeeewwwuuuuck!!! Amazingly its the type of handshake you fear you will get from a strange assortment of different characters.
MF or Gimpy as a couple of extreme examples!

Still, might turn out to be a nice bloke.

Unlikely.... see above!

[Jeebo72]

WHS.

Also, sitting to the side of the interviewer at about a 90 degree angle can help in gaining agreement; sitting opposite each other is a confrontational position. Some interviewers make it impossible to do this, but where possible I take the seat which puts me in the 'agreement position'.

It's quite a well known diplomatic technique that I learnt when I did a contract at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs; succesful one-to-one negotiators sit around a low coffee table in informal seats, and at an oblique angle to the side of the other party. You can try this for yourself at home with your partner; sit opposite each other at dinner and then make some statement about how the garden should be arranged, knowing that it's not what your partner wants; he/she will disagree quite strongly. Suggest your idea while sitting in the living room at an angle and he/she will point out weaknesses or ask questions, which is more likely to get you both closer to what you want.

I tried this, made a few suggestions to the wife, and it does indeed work. She's leaving tomorrow. Job done.

[MarillionFan]

Eeeeewwwuuuuck!!! Amazingly its the type of handshake you fear you will get from a strange assortment of different characters.
MF or Gimpy as a couple of extreme examples!



Unlikely.... see above!

I don't have a weak handshake.

I prefer to stamp out who's boss in the interview from the off. I go in and great them like Vinny Jones greeting Paul Gascoigne.