Summary
Contents
Subject index
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.
Contextual Effects
Contextual Effects
In comparison with biographical inquiries, aptitude tests, and performance simulations, the employment interview is usually conducted under conditions that can best be called variable. Even experienced, well-trained interviewers operate under a variety of situational constraints, some of which are a function of organizational requirements (e.g., level of assigned decision-making responsibility) and some of which are directly perceived by the interviewer (e.g., risk in making false positive decisions). Yet little is known about how the interview context affects interviewer judgment.
Prior to 1985, reviews of the employment interview literature concluded that the likely cause of faulty interview judgment rests largely within the individual interviewer (see Arvey & Campion, 1982; Hakel, 1982; Hunter & Hunter, 1984; Reilly & Chao, 1982; Schmitt, 1976). Each of ...
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