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This completely rewritten edition of the bestselling The Employment Interview Handbook provides a comprehensive review of various streams of research into employment interviewing, including: the validity and fairness of interview outcomes; assessment of person-organization `it'; factors affecting the interviewer's decision-making process; and applicant perspectives on the process of interviewing, including impression management. The book concludes with a summary of the volume's implications for theory building, research methods and effective practice.
Employment Interview Research: Historical Update and Introduction
Employment Interview Research: Historical Update and Introduction
This introductory chapter sets the stage for the remainder of this handbook by presenting a brief historical review of the literature on the employment interview since 1915. The historical review highlights key events, findings, and shifts in research trends up through the 1990s and offers speculation about the future challenges and developments that await tomorrow's employment interview researcher. We conclude with an introduction to the contributed chapters that make up this handbook by placing each chapter's unique perspective within an integrated framework. This framework attempts to synthesize the diverse theoretical perspectives and complex causal relationships that exist between exogenous factors (e.g., preinterview impressions, interview context, interview content, and applicant strategies) ...
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