Demand on graphology emerged in Kazakhstan

By Ilya BLOGGER

The truth always appears above the lies, like oil on water

Miguel Servantes

Continuous crisis in Kazakhstan is introducing new elements into country living. Private sector had stiffened qualification requirements, and there are lots of reasons for that. Companies are requiring able people, reliable, sustainable to pressure from rival’s side, raiders, and fiscal authorities. As the result of all this, the level of requirements to HR stuff and recruiting agencies were upgraded; and they, in their stance, started to ask for help not only from psychologists, but also graphologists.

Graphology is one of the methods, which are allowing to get additional information about a personality and to lighten up many of its important edges. This applied science is not only helping people on their way to self-perception to learn better their individuality, propensity and predilections; with its help employers are getting much more information about its employees.

Modern business world is making great demands to human resources. Being in conditions, when labour market is becoming more and more complicated and segmented, and also suffering from crisis consequences, the importance of departments in organizations, responsible for employing people, has rose sharply. The more major post required from one, the more expensive are faults in recruitment.

Graphology by itself cannot replace educational diplomas, certificates, questionnaires, tests and CV’s, but working in complex with other information, it can tell many about candidates. It is pretty often when information, acquired with help from expert graphologist, is hard to find in any other sources.

Let alone that every person has its individual handwriting, though any of it could be classified and diagnosed with high level of sureness. Two or three A4 paper pieces with handwriting can tell things about its owner that he himself never knew.

Graphologist can always make clear whether a person is addicted to alcohol or drugs. Generally, an alcoholic is easily recognizable without handwriting specialist’s help, but drug addict is the other business, especially when it is a newcomer. It is clear, though, that drug addict is much more dangerous to any organization than alcohol addict. And position doesn’t make any difference, whether it’s a driver or marketologist.

Letters and types of their connections are allowing to judge with high grade of sureness, whether a man can handle right decisions in difficult situation. Is such quality of nature as readiness is specific for him or completely not. Non-rational moments in handwriting (for instance, much more connectors than it’s necessary) are not pointing out on rationality in another aspects of activities. Graphology is adhered to principle “simple handwriting – simple man”. But “simple” is absolutely doesn’t mean “primitive”; “artless”, “straight”, “clear”, “rational” are more suitable definitions here.

On present stage of its development, graphology can’t categorically point on person’s tendency to steal. Usually stealing is determined by social conditions and not related to psychological categories; whereas kleptomania is a defection called syndrome, and manifest itself in handwriting in signs, pointing on falsehood, hypocrisy, and prevalence of instincts over intellect, weakly developed of volition. For instance, vowels opened from downside, lack of harmony in handwriting etc.

In work with handwriting the result is clearly correlated to labour contribution. For instance, tendency to lie can be defined only after painstaking work. Changes in slope, variability of letter sizes, whole handwriting is like under depression.

If the text is dimensional enough then it is easy to find out fatigability of the worker. This factor is correlated with productivity. Serious differences in writing first and last sentences in text are pointing on high fatigability.

“Intellectual” handwriting is quick, rational and correct writing. The less ware energy is wasted by person writing, the more closely it would listen to lecturer in class or managers’ direction on meeting.

Handwriting can objectively settle a diagnosis – is it schizophrenia, established neurosis, or amentia. Specifics couldn’t be avoided. For instance, teachers in initial school have maximum depersonalized handwriting. They virtually writing in initial school copy books, which gives very less data to enter their inside world.

There are many ways of deliberate corruption of handwriting. Usually it is done for the reason to hide some things. But despite that any of people has several writes, one used to make coordination memorandum, other to write letter to family, third to write a note, it is impossible to change writing beyond recognition. Firstly, there are many moments appearing, pointing on artificial corruption in writing. Secondly, only conscious part of writing can be changed. Whilst very many in writing are related to unconscious, and thus can’t be changed by conscious effort of will.

Writing is always individual also as some kind of dossier since 16-17 years, i.e. since the age of maturing, accompanying its owner, accumulating various information in itself. Thus, “writing is individual and dynamically stable program of graphical techniques of writing, which basis is optic-moving image of written, implemented with help of motion system, specific for each person”.

Nowadays preliminary testing for choosing candidate on one or another position gets widespread more and more. No doubt this brings its positive results, especially if especially developed tests for it were used, including multi-scale. Not only scales with questions, aimed to define business, personal and psychological skills, are included in modern tests, but parameters to determine sincerity, honesty, actuality of the information. Question or rather statements of the test are not connected with conceptual aspects, and applicant, who has no comparable pre-testing training, gets good opportunity to involuntary tell almost anything about him.

However, the internet is sharply increasing the possibilities to access knowledge, which was considered as esoteric not long ago. Tons of literature, dedicated to communications theory, influence psychology, finger language, verbal and non-verbal tests, rhetoric and the rest, is allowing to person, aimed to take his place in life, to fundamentally prepare for meeting with professional interviewers and to win. Some people spare no expense in chase of good position.

Digital technologies, high-quality polygraph and computer hardware, plus corruptness of educational system are allowing giving birth to virtually any document. Sometimes it is hard work even for specialist to recognize fake stamp.

Not many employers are bothering themselves with thorough check of an applicant; not included that such measures cost good waste of money and time. Some simply can’t afford it. As the result, a person who is far from meeting requirements got the position of importance. Time, money and energy are wasted. The first to send help to personnel officer in form of psychologist and graphologist is the ones who already had severe damage from bad employees.

But if diploma can be bought, and tests can be met with help of competent trainer and various key tricks, then situation with handwriting is completely different. Relative dynamic fixity of writing means its definitive stereotype, stability in time and its fixity to divertive factors of different kinds. Usually handwriting is stabilized to 25 year old and then it not undergoes substantial changes until older (60) and oldest (74) age, when by virtue of ageing changes comes derangement of learned behavior. On deepest level attempts to artificially change handwriting are doomed, because internal construction if writing is staying permanent.

Precisely that’s why the importance of graphology as the mean of objective and fully authentic examination of personality. The appeal to graphology in connection with formed circumstances in the country appears to be logical. However, it is important to know for sure than professional graphologists in the country can be counted by fingers.

There is a real danger that not specialists would went into society and business with graphology, but charlatans and speculators from it. To the present day there are people already, which can give mass of various data to customers literally by three words and only for light piece; however, when minimal typesetting of graphologist is appearing to be much more voluminous.

1. The sample of handwriting must be done on clear A4 piece of paper

2. No additional appliances must be used while writing (line, ruling, using of so-called “zebra”)

3. The surface of paper must have smooth and non-glanced

4. The sample must be done either by stylus of ball pen

5. When using ball pen it is preferably to underlay 2-3 sheets under the paper

6. Sheets being used for underlying must be used only for this purpose

7. The sample of handwriting must contain not less than 15-20 lines

8. The sample must have signature

The easiest way to establish the truth for the executive is to find the professionalism of graphologist on his own experience.