(1) Workplace interviews can be used to hire new employees, to review an employee's performance, to discover employee attitudes, or to assess reasons for employee termination.
(2) The most commonly used interviewing styles include the structured style, the unstructured style, the group style, and the stress style.
(3) A structured interview is one that usually follows a predetermined pattern.
(4) Frequently, a specific set of questions, taken from a detailed form, are asked of the interviewee.
(5) The form is a guide to what questions should be asked and helps keep the interview on track.
(6) An unstructured interview is one that attempts to avoid influencing the interviewee's remarks.
(7) Often a broad, general question is asked, and the interviewee is encouraged to answer in some depth.
(8) During an unstructured interview, the interviewee tends to feel freer to express attitudes, desires, emotions, and problems.
(9) Another technique, the group interview, is adaptable to a variety of situations.
(10) Several managers observe, challenge, and pool their impression of a potential employee.
(11) Applicants for positions with a high degree of responsibility, such as sales or executive trainees, may be subjected to group interviews.
(12) The stress interview places the interviewee in a tense, often realistic situation to see how he or she responds to stress.
(13) The theory underlying this approach is that during stress, the "true" personality of the interviewee tends to emerge.
(14) Managers who use the stress technique believe that by introducing tension into the interview, the applicant can be observed in circumstances other than artificial, courtship-styled behavior situations. D7.
The keys to the important ideas in this passage are
a. enumerations.
b. definitions.
c. an enumeration and definitions.