by David Hagel | Jul 22, 2021 | General
Interview Deception – Playing Dumb You may recall the comedies Dumb and Dumber and Dumb and Dumber 2. The main characters are played by Jim Carrey (Lloyd Christmas) and Jeff Daniels (Harry Dunne). Not the sharpest knives in the drawer, they bumble and stumble...
by David Hagel | Jul 12, 2021 | General
When I think of lie detectors, my mind immediately jumps to the scene in Meet the Fockers where Jack Byrnes, played by Robert Di Nero, subjects his son-in-law, Greg Focker, played by Ben Stiller, to a lie detector test. It’s hilarious. The two re-enacted the scene on...
by David Hagel | Jun 17, 2021 | General
I worked in a 450 person facility that had an extremely large and ethnically diverse population. It seemed as though every country in the world was represented. English was not the mother tongue for a number of these folks. Some of them spoke excellent English, others...
by David Hagel | Jun 7, 2021 | General
According to former CIA officers Philip Houston, Michael Floyd and Susan Carnicero in their book Spy the Lie, non-answer statements can include the following: That’s a good question. I’m glad you asked that. I knew you were going to ask me that. That’s a legitimate...
by David Hagel | May 28, 2021 | General
High Turnover – You have a turnstile at the front door. Employees leave the business as fast as new ones join. Exit interviews are conducted, but employees are tight-lipped. They don’t want to say anything negative for fear of retaliation by way of a bad reference....
by David Hagel | Apr 28, 2021 | General
If you’re a movie buff, you may remember a 1991 low budget number called “Hot Shots”. It starred Charlie Sheen and was a parody of the hit movie “Top Gun” and the Rambo movies. There’s a scene in the movie where an officer and a general are standing over a mockup of...
