What Your Body Language Tells About You During Job Interviews

But holding eye contact for too long is also not a good idea.

While it’s important to maintain eye contact during conversations of each kind, there is no such thing as holding eye contact for too long. While you want to engage in the conversation and express a sense of confidence and trust, holding eye contact for too long will have the opposite effect.

In fact, maintaining eye contact for long periods without breaking will be interpreted as aggressive, not to mention that it is also creepy. Travis Bradberry recommends breaking eye contact every 10 seconds or so during an interview, but it also important how you do it.

If you choose to break contact by looking down, it signals submission, but if you look sideways, it makes you appear confident.

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