Reading between the lines
Tuesday 30th October 2012, 8:00AM GMT.
Emma Bache’s abilities to analyse handwriting are in high demand in the business world. The Times’ resident graphologist tells Martyn Tolcher what she can learn from just a tiny sample – and why she would love to study the writing of Jimmy Savile.
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EMMA BACHE’S favourite place in the world is Sark.
It’s the perfect antidote to her hectic working life in London, where she helps leading City firms to identify the right people for key jobs and promotions.
But as one of the country’s most eminent graphologists, Emma, pictured, gets her results not through interviewing or grilling the candidates but by putting samples of their handwriting under her mini-microscope.
‘It gives a fairly in-depth insight into the personality and it gives a different picture really from what an interview or psychometric testing would do,’ Emma explained.
‘You can be quite good at an interview or in interview technique, but I can really see what the person is like. Also, I can see from their writing the compatibility of that person with the other people they’re going to be
working with.’
These seem like bold claims for a method that relies solely on the very fine analysis of a simple piece of handwritten text, without even having to meet the person who produced it, but Emma has a clear message for any sceptics out there. ‘Try me out. Show me some of your handwriting or, even better, somebody that you think you know quite well and let’s take it from there.’
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Thought I recognised this woman! She’s the one from Holiday Showdown – do you remember her?!!! She brought a family of Aussies over to Sark – and in return they showed her Australia.
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She was definitely on the winning end of that one!
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Does the lady also read tea leaves and/or chicken bones?
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Hand writing can indeed be very informative, I once analysed a poem on the cubicle wall in the gents at Grandes Rocques. I came to the conclusion that the author was probably male, had a predisposition toward vandalism and because of the poor spelling probably attended La Mare under the previous education administration.
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Graphology is almost a complete scam. I say ‘almost’ because there are some obvious characteristics such as open loopy writing which do generally denote outgoing people as averse to tiny bunched up stuff belonging to private, insular folk. But beyond the obvious a graphologist’s report is about as valid as reading a horoscope and reads similarly. The usual platitudes that everybody identifies with even when reading somebody else’s report by mistake. The thought of ‘leading City firms’ recruiting on the evidence of such guff goes a long way to explaining our frequent banking disasters.
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Next week’s headline: US President decided by Edith
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More than 95% of my writing is in Arial 12 so not quite sure what she’ll make of that.
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Two dingbats and a wingding walk into a bar.The barman says “Sorry,we don’t serve your type in here”
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