Eye Contact - A Genuine Struggle
A genuine eye contact is a struggle for recent college graduates during job interviews. 800 employers confirm eye contact a genuine struggle for more than half the job applicants. Perhaps it could be one of the reasons that 21% wanted to be incognito during a job interview!
Extrapolating this data could mean that it is a genuine issue for a sizable population in general. Perhaps this trend could be noticed among the existing workforce too, which might limit their productivity with certain job functions such as sales, training, webinars, marketing, therapy, etc.
While this is an unnerving experience during in-person setting, it could get worse during video calls as body language factors, optimum lighting & a proper background come into play. There might be several factors that drive this, from excessive self-consciousness to body dysmorphia issues.
The market recognized this issue and worked on technology driven solutions. Both hardware and software driven (AI) solutions are entering the market to make it a non-issue for workforce as well as job applicants and other professionals in podcasting, medicine, etc. EyeKonect line of products are designed to solve this problem exclusively. EyeKonect products are intuitive and flexible to configure for other applications too.
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