The Effectiveness of Interviews
{"Image DocumentName": "The Effectiveness of Interviews", "Image ImageDescription": "Prior knowledge about an applicant. Attitude of the interviewer. The order of the interview. Negative information. The first five minutes. The content of the interview. The validity of the interview. Structured versus unstructured interviews. Managers can use a number of selection techniques to make good hiring decisions. The most widely-used selection tool is the interview. However, interviews are often neither reliable nor valid. Therefore, the person with the best interview skills often gets the job, even though he or she may not be the most qualified. Interviews are valuable for assessing an applicant\u2019s intelligence, level of motivation, and interpersonal skills. Unstructured interviews are conducive to interviewer biases: favouring applicants who share their values, giving undue weight to negative information, and allowing the order in which applicants are interviewed to influence evaluations. Structured interviews provide standardized sets of questions, uniform methods of recording information, and standardized ratings of the qualifications of applicants. If interviews are not well structured and standardized, they can be biased. There have been a number of research findings on interviews which can be summarized as follows: Prior knowledge about the applicant will bias the interviewer. Interviewers hold stereotypes about what represents good applicants. Interviewers favour applicants who share their own attitudes. The order in which applicants are interviewed affects assessments of candidates. Negative information is given unduly high weight. Interviewers determine an applicant\u2019s suitability in the first five minutes of the interview. Interviewers forget much of an interview\u2019s content within minutes after it has been ended. Interviews are most valid in determining an applicant\u2019s intelligence, motivation, and interpersonal skills. Structured, well organized interviews are more effective than those that are loosely organized. 15.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}