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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.
Are Some Interviewers Better than others?
Are Some Interviewers Better than others?
A growing body of evidence indicates that there are individual differences in employment interviewers' decision processes. For instance, several recent studies have revealed differences in information utilization and validity across interviewers (e.g., Dipboye, Gaugler, & Hayes, 1990; Dougherty, Ebert, & Callender, 1986; Kinicki, Lockwood, Horn, & Griffeth, 1990). Further, individual differences appear to account for a substantial portion of the variance in interviewers' hiring decisions and ratings of applicants (Conard, 1988; Graves & Powell, 1996). In one recent study, individual differences explained 28% of the variance in interviewers' hiring decisions and 20% to 34% of the variance across eight rating dimensions (Conard, 1988).
Individual differences in interviewers' decision processes have potentially serious consequences ...
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