Exam 8: Interviews and Reference Checks

Assertiveness is the single most commonly rated trait in interviews.

A group interview is one where two or more interviewers interview the job applicant simultaneously.

"Organizational citizenship" is one of the most difficult attributes to be validly assessed during a job interview.

An interview that uses both structured and unstructured questions is referred to as a:

Which of the following are conducted by professional agencies and include interviews with former employees and co-workers as well as police records and credit checks?

What sort of interview questions that attempt to assess a job applicant's are the most straight forward?

A limitation of computer interactive interviews such as Nike's Interactive Voice Response Technology is that it cannot handle large number of applicants since advanced technological support systems are needed.

Which of the following impacts on interview outcomes?

Behavioural description interviews assume that the best predictor of people's future behaviour is their past behaviour.

Interviewers rate female job applicants wearing masculine style attire (e.g. ,dark blue suits)as more self-reliant than other female applicants.

Typically,employment interviews focus on the applicant's:

In this sort of interview unfavourable information provided by the applicant has a greater influence on the interviewer evaluation than favourable information?

When an interviewer is experienced and has high cognitive complexity,his or her interviews tend to be more:

The employment interview is a formal,in-depth conversation between a job applicant and one or more interviewers.

Consider the following interview question.In what type of interview is the question most likely to occur? "To your surprise,you find that more than half the students in your class failed in the first midterm in the staffing course.What do you do now?"

When two or more job applicants are interviewed at the same time by one interviewer,it is referred to as a:

A major problem with interviews is that the interviewers often make a decision to hire or not hire before completing the entire interview.

A first step in planning job interview is to:

In which type of interview are situational interview questions combined with questions about job knowledge,job performance,and worker characteristics?

When hiring for a job that involves teamwork,interviewers are more likely to pay special attention to "need for achievement" than "agreeableness."