What You Should Know About Going On A Job Interview
ob interviews are involve fewer staff from the
typically the last stage in employers and will typically be
the hiring process, used to much shorter and less in-depth. A
evaluate the best candidates. common intitial interview form is
Interviews are usually preceded the phone interview, a job
by the evaluation of supplied interview conducted over the
résumés, selecting a small number telephone. This is especially
of candidates who seem to be the common when the candidates do not
most desirable (shortlisting). live near the employer and has
the advantage of keeping costs
A company seeking to fill a low for both sides.
single position will typically
interview a handful of candidates Once all candidates have had job
- perhaps as many as ten if the interviews, the employer
level of application has been typically selects the most
high. While job interviews are desirable candidate and begins
considered to be one of the most the negotiation of a job offer.
useful tools for evaluating
potential employees, they also A typical job interview has a
demand significant resources from single candidate meeting with
the employer and have been between one and three persons
demonstrated to be notoriously representing the employer; the
unreliable in identifying the potential supervisor of the
optimal person for the job. employee is usually involved in
the interview process. A larger
Multiple rounds of job interviews interview panel will often have a
may be used where there are many specialized human resources
candidates or the job is worker. The meeting can be as
particularly challenging or short as 15 minutes; job
desirable; earlier rounds may interviews usually last less than
two hours. The bulk of the job expected to wear to work, with a
interview will be the suit being appropriate for a
interviewers asking the candidate white-collar job interview, but
questions about their history, jeans being appropriate for an
personality, work style and other interview as a plumber.
relevant factors to the job. The
candidate will usually be given a Additionally, some professions
chance to ask any questions at have specific types of job
the end of the interview. The interviews; for performing
primary purpose is to assess the artists, this is an audition
candidate's suitability for the where the emphasis is placed on
job, although the candidate will the performance ability of the
also be assessing the corporate candidate.
culture and demands of the job on
offer. Psychometric testing may also be
used in job interviews.
Lower paid and lower skilled
positions tend to have much In many countries including most
simpler job interviews than more of North America, Western Europe
prestigious positions; a lawyer's and Australasia, employment
job interview will be much more equity laws forbid discrimination
demanding than that of a retail based on a number of classes,
cashier. such as race, gender, age, and
marital status. Asking questions
Most job interviews are formal; about these protected areas in a
the larger the firm, the more job interview is generally
formal and structured the considered discriminatory, and
interview will tend to be. constitutes an illegal hiring
Candidates generally dress practice. Asking questions that
slightly better than they will be touch on these areas, such as
"Are you willing to aim of a job interview is
travel/relocate?" (possibly ostensibily to choose a candidate
affected by marital status) or who will perform well in the job
"When did you graduate from role, other methods of selection
school?" (indicative of age) is provide greater predictive power
still usually possible. and often lower costs.
Furthermore, given the
There is extant data which puts unstructured approach of most
in question the value of Job interviews they often have almost
Interviews as a tool for no useful predictive power of
selecting employees. Where the employee success.
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