Posted: 3/16/2006 5:34:47 PM EDT
| I am processing with a local police dept and have to take a polygraph. I'm squeaky clean but I'm nervious because I've never done one before. I wondering if anyone has any tips or info that might help me stay calm for my test? Thanks |
Good luck in the application process.
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If you've been honest throughout the process and continue to be honest during the polygraph, all you have to do is make sure you breathe consistently. If you don't, and you hyperventilate, you will pass out. Passing out during the poly is a bad thing. At least that's what the polygrapher told me after he related such a story to me. |
Did he relate this story to you *prior* to administering a poly to you?  Or just a story between buds? |
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poly ....just relax...breathe calmly and focus. I took a few when I lived in DC...first was the worse. taught myself to find something on wall to focus on and helped to control my nervousness. had to start over one time i was so relaxed it messed it up so another hour or two was needed. above all tell the truth... |
It was after he told me I passed. He also asked about "discrepency" in the readings on my drug history. My drug history was very minor but a old timer told me to lie as, even though the policy reads that my history was no problem, that they would never hire someone with that in their history. He asked if anything was "bothering me about my drug history?" I said yes, related what the old timer told me, that I decided that I wasn't going to lie and that if they didn't hire me despite the written policy then at least I'd be out after telling the truth and it wouldn't be because I lied. He liked that answer and then began the chummy talk. That story about the kid passing out also included same kid mentioning, just after the EMS guys awoke him, that he 'always passes out when he gets nervous." Hahaha! |
Oh, OK. My first thought was that he might have told you that *before* the poly to try and get you nervous. |