| It gives you a lot of trouble when you're about six or | | | | hiring procedure for many companies in France, India, |
| seven, as letters stubbornly refuse to form the way | | | | England, Spain and Israel. And no matter how much |
| they're supposed to, but once you've mastered the art | | | | you may want to fight it, it is entirely legal. |
| of writing it's not something that you spend a great | | | | According to Written Inc., companies lose thousands of |
| deal of time thinking about. You certainly don't think that | | | | dollars (or Pounds) in revenue each year due to bad |
| one day your handwriting will play a pivotal role in your | | | | hiring decisions. These costs relate to the direct cost |
| career. But thanks to new developments in handwriting | | | | of employing a "bad apple", as well as indirect costs |
| analysis by Written Inc., handwriting can now be used | | | | such as loss of productivity as other employees are |
| by prospective employers to help them avoid hiring the | | | | distracted by a disruptive and argumentative colleague, |
| wrong people. | | | | and the cost of replacing productive employees who |
| Written Inc.'s technique, called Candidate Insight(TM), | | | | decide to leave as a result of a bad hiring decision. |
| uses a handwriting sample to identify "bad apples" | | | | Business reputations also suffer as clients and |
| among job applicants. The negative personality traits | | | | prospective clients take their business elsewhere |
| that they identify include being unethical, irresponsible, | | | | based on their negative experiences with the "bad |
| deceptive, argumentative, manipulative, and having a | | | | apple". In addition to all of these losses, bad hiring |
| bad attitude, as well as being a poor team player and | | | | decisions also place employers at an increased risk of |
| having poor work habits. The process uses a 3-level | | | | lawsuits, fraudulent activities and workplace violence. |
| approach to quality, which Written Inc. claims has | | | | As advanced as Candidate Insight is, and their 95% |
| resulted in a 95% accuracy rate. | | | | accuracy rating notwithstanding, the system is far from |
| Many businesses and corporations are turning to | | | | perfect. For the best results candidates need to write |
| handwriting experts to help them make important hiring | | | | in cursive with a ball point pen. Accuracy drops when |
| decisions because traditional methods, such as | | | | candidates print using a combination of upper and |
| personality tests, can be manipulated and are too | | | | lower case letters, but a limited result is still possible. |
| subjective. Written Inc. claim that no one can | | | | Candidates who only print in upper case letters, |
| successfully manipulate their handwriting, which means | | | | however, yield virtually no private information and |
| that no matter how much you may want to, you can't | | | | generate no results. So it seems that candidates who |
| hide anything with your penmanship. | | | | print have the advantage over their cursive writing |
| Apparently handwriting analysis is already standard | | | | peers. That is, if they have something to hide. |