Interview days with one of my mentor headteachers were always interesting. He had innumerable strategies to hurry things along (“no subsidiary questions for this one”) and keep everyone on the panel in check (“if I click my pen or put it down, we’re moving them along”).
Of course, he made a point of meeting all candidates first thing in the morning, keen to make and gauge that early impression.
He’d be all smiles and casual charm but, beneath this veneer, he’d be assessing the firmness of a handshake, judging the strength of eye-contact – testing the waters.
As he would say: “You can’t get yourself a job in the first 30 seconds, but you can certainly lose it.”
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