JOB INTERVIEW
JOB INTERVIEW DEFINITION Job interview is an interview consisting of a conversation between a job applicant and a representative of an employer which is conducted to assess whether the applicant should be hired. Interviews are one of the most popularly used devices for employee selection. Interviews vary in the extent to which the questions are structured, from a totally unstructured and free-wheeling conversation to a structured interview in which an applicant is asked a predetermined list of questions in a specified order. STRUCTURE Structured interviews are a means of collecting data for a statistical survey . In this case, the data is collected by an interviewer rather than through a self-administered questionnaire . Interviewers read the questions exactly as they appear on the survey questionnaire. The choice of answers to the questions is often fixed (close-ended) in advance, though open-ended questions can ...