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Interview and Induction
Interview and Induction
& Induction
Specific
skills
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Subject
• Unstructured Interview
– Idea of what type of person would best fit the
available job
– does not have a prepared list of questions to
guide the interview.
Ability to
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• Behavioral Interview - more pointed, more probing and
more specific
– Give an example of an occasion when you used logic to solve a
problem.
– Give an example of a goal you reached and tell me how you achieved
it.
– Describe a decision you made that was unpopular and how you
handled implementing it.
A specific situation
The tasks that
needed to be done
The action you
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• Lunch/ Dinner Interview - more stressful,
evaluate their social skills and to see if they
can handle themselves gracefully under
pressure.
Communic
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• Group Interview/ panel interview
– Each job applicant is interviewed by multiple
interviewers or a panel
– A group of applicants for the same position
are interviewed together
– Comparative evaluation
Appearance/
Presentation
Interaction with
group
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• Phone Interview
– Identify and recruit candidates for employment.
– Screen candidates in order to narrow the pool of
applicants
– Usually followed by an in-person interview
– Minimize the expenses, ideal for out-of-town
candidates.
• Video Job Interviews
– Next step in the online recruiting process for many
recruiters
– Quick
– Save on costs
– Mitigates the flaws of telephone interviews
• Critical skills
• Applicant research
• Selecting the right candidate
• Behavioral interviewing
• Closing the interview
• Note taking
• Team interviewing