Don't Cross Yourself Out!

Speaking of old friends and filling in forms and signing them: do you backslash right through your signature when you’re signing your name? A lot of people do that – in fact a lot of people aren’t content with just one single backslash; they go over it two or three times to make sure that their name is effectively well and truly crossed out.

Your signature reflects your personality; it’s personal logo - a written picture of how you see yourself in relation to other people. In fact, many Graphologists believe that when it comes to analysing people, signatures are more revealing than handwriting.

Whilst it's very unlikely that the people who read your Application Forms or covering letters will be trained Graphologists, those people will still be influenced by the way you sign your name, because signatures send signals about the personality of the writer to the conscious and subconscious minds of the reader.

So please don’t cross yourself out!

P.S. What prompted to me to mention this is a book called “Love Letters, The Romantic Secrets Written in Our Handwriting” - which was written by the same old friend who reminded me that ‘CVs’ are ‘resumes’...