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Job Interviews & NLP

By Brick | July 22, 2008

This is a short and rather entertaining video from O’Reilly’s Ignite event. VJ describes how Neuro-Linguistic Programming ("NLP") techniques can be used in a job interview:

 

While the presentation was light, and the presenter made some humorous comments, it almost seems like the audience thought the whole thing was some kind of joke! Too bad, because I think there was some good (serious) advice in this presentation.

For me, NLP is also a victim of late night infomercial syndrome. For whatever reason, what is probably a serious, credible field of study loses some of it’s luster when made available to the masses in three easy payments. I have ascribed this syndrome to the likes of Don Lapre, which I have alluded to in an earlier post. In the case of NLP, the infomercial version comes in the form of Anthony Robbins. And just like Mr. Lapre, there exists a rather excellent spoof:

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