What ..?

• Interviews are formalised face-to-face meeting between employers and prospective employees

Formalised .. why?

• The rationale is meeting the person in his best form
• As a way of presentation, grooming and posture
• Simulate actual working circumstances
• But rules can be bent, less formal meetings are also popular depending on cirumstances

Face-to-face?

• All activities are conducted by people, it is a people-driven world
• Meeting in person would be a certain way of sincere understanding
• Monitor and gauge the person in actual situations
• Meetings are like pictures, worth a thousand words

Who interviews who?

• The employers or their representatives do the interviewing
• The prospective employees are the applicants for vocations, yet to join the organisation

Well … what happens during an interview?

• Many things, but the dominant thing is for both parties to discover mutual suitability (or fitness)
• The interviewers (employers) normally talk / question / probe the interviewees (employees) to understand the them & discover if they are suitable for vocations
• The interviewees give responses and may question / probe the interviewers

How do interviewers probe?

• Questioning: why, what, how, who, where, when
• Talking: personality, mannerisms, sincerity
• Testing: problem tackling, solution, process, thinking patterns

What abt. interviewees?

• Provide sincere, direct and firm responses
• If in doubt, think uninhibitedly and creatively

What mannerisms are noted?

• Mannerisms include facial expressions, speech, hand-body patterns
• Prefer mannerisms to reflect and enhance own views
• To stay calm, yet vigilant

Interviewers

• They are either employers or representatives like HRM people
• The more important the vocation, the more interviewers, the higher the level of management, the more related the interviewers are to the vocation

Examples

• PSA: four people; 1-HRM; 1-questioning; 1-listening, but prospective working partners; 1-watching and complementary
• MSS: three people; 1-HRM; 1-questioning, head; 1-listening, deputy
• BII: seven people; 3 computation scientists; 3 lecturers; 1 - probing