Behavioural Interview Questions
Do wacky CV’s work? by David Baker
Well, yes and no. There is a behavioural science that is often misquoted and misunderstood, known as NLP.
The origins of NLP lie in the seventies with Dr John Grinder and Richard Bandler. Richard Bandler had studied mathematics and computing, whilst Dr John Grinder was a well-known authority on linguistics
Richard Bandler was employed to work on audio and video recordings of two well-known psychotherapists, Virginia Satir and Fritz Perls.
Virginia Satir was a renowned therapist who worked in family therapy. Whilst helping to record her work, Richard Bandler identified different patterns of speech she used in her therapy. He later went on to work on recordings of the renowned originator of Gestalt Therapy, Dr Fritz Perls, and noticed certain things about the way he worked, as well as developing an interest in Gestalt Therapy. It was at this time that Dr John Grinder became involved, adding his skills in language to Richard’s knowledge of psychotherapy and ability to copy people’s behaviour.
This is the key to advanced communication skills, and, without going into their work in more depth than is needed to answer the question that is posed in this blog – ‘Do crazy CVs really work?’ – I’d like you to think about this â
