Her suit is Prada. Her hair is neatly coiffed. Her handshake is firm and her eye contact steady. Her body leans forward ever so slightly to show that she is interested, but not anxious. Her easy banter manages to convey her many achievements without seeming arrogant. Her replies arise after thoughtful pauses. Her compliments seem sincere. And her next job is quite likely to be the one you are offering, suggests a new meta-analysis of several dozen studies. Combined, the studies show that hiring managers are remarkably susceptible to a job candidate’s appearance, gestures, postures, flattery, and self-promotion. Alas, the study also finds that these interviewer-wooing tactics have more to do with whether a candidate gets the job than how well she performs at it. “Many executives and managers have too much confidence in their ability to read people,” says Murray Barrick, chair of the management department at Texas A&M University and the study’s lead author. “They don’t want to hear that self-presentation tactics are having this much impact on their hiring decisions.” “I also didn’t think that our effects would be this strong,” he adds. Barrick and colleagues’ study offers an antidote to the beguiling wiles of potential hires:…