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Putting the boot on the other foot: Candidates' descriptions of interviewers
Author(s) -
KEENAN A.,
WEDDERBURN A.A.I.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal of occupational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 2044-8325
pISSN - 0305-8107
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8325.1980.tb00009.x
Subject(s) - interview , preference , foot (prosody) , psychology , selection (genetic algorithm) , applied psychology , social psychology , medical education , computer science , artificial intelligence , political science , medicine , linguistics , statistics , law , mathematics , philosophy
To find out how selection interviewers gather information, 101 candidates were intercepted immediately after initial graduate recruitment interviews, and questioned on the coverage of 26 topics. Interviewers were found to give more frequent coverage to topics concerned with future job and knowledge of company than present or past academic performance. The results were interpreted as indicating an interviewer preference for topic areas where he had an advantage over the candidate in terms of superior knowledge.