When You Conduct Employment Interviews, You Sometimes Notice That Candidates

When you conduct employment interviews, you sometimes notice that candidates appear extremely nervous throughout the entire interview. To try to combat this, you've decided to rethink the way you begin your interviews and do more rapport building. Which of the following would be the best way to build rapport with your candidates?

A) Look at the candidate's resume to see if you have anything in common with the candidate-such as hobbies, interests, former employers, place of residence, or any other shared commonality.
B) Place personal pictures - for instance, of your family members - within easy view of an arriving candidate. This way, the candidate can ask you about something that they know you'd be interested in talking about, thereby helping to "break the ice."
C) Talk about the weather. It's something that you know the two of you are certain to share in common, it's often changing, and it's neutral. If a blizzard, heat wave, or hurricane comes your way, you're certain to have rapport building for at least a week.
D) Choose a prominent current event - one that you're confident the candidate would know about - and refer to it in a somewhat general manner. This way, even if you and the employee are not in full agreement on the topic, the conversation will be superficial enough that no one will be offended, and you've still found something interesting to talk about (certainly more interesting than the weather) .