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The Effects of a Job‐Interview Skills Workshop on Drug‐Abuse Clients
Author(s) -
STEVENS WILLIAM,
TORNATZKY LOUIS
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
journal of employment counseling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.252
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 2161-1920
pISSN - 0022-0787
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-1920.1976.tb00622.x
Subject(s) - interview , psychology , substance abuse , job interview , clinical psychology , nonverbal communication , communication skills , applied psychology , social psychology , medical education , developmental psychology , psychiatry , medicine , political science , law
By performing a field experiment, we tested the hypothesis that a job‐interview skills workshop would improve the employment status of subjects with drug‐abuse problems. Subjects from a drug‐abuse treatment program were randomly assigned either to an experimental situation that included a workshop that stressed behavioral interview skills, such as preparing for an interview, application completion, grooming, nonverbal communication, and phrasing of answers to interviewer questions, or to a control group that received no treatment. A 6‐months follow‐up of subjects showed no significant attitudinal differences between the two groups. All three behavioral measures of employment status showed either significant differences or strong trends in favor of the experimental group, however. Possible alternative explanations of results were discussed and future research suggested.