Your perfectly manicured résumé, flawless cover letter and brilliant responses to tough interview questions might make you a strong job candidate—but forget to smile, slouch in your chair or fail to make eye contact during the interview, and you could be out of the running.

“A candidate can give out thousands of cues within the first minute of meeting a hiring manager, and those messages make more of an impact than what you say during the interview,” says body language expert and author Patti Wood. “Our body language says a lot about who we are and our emotional state, and poor body language often sends a message that we are stressed or fearful.”

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