Purchase Solution

Strategic Staffing:Unstructured/Structured Interviews

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

Week-5 HR594O_Strategic Staffing

First discussion-Internal & External Selection:

Staffing experts recommend the use of structured interviews in the selection process.

1- Why are they considered to be more effective than unstructured interviews? Discuss the pros and cons of each method.

2- We also need to build in some discussion of the Behavioral Event Interview or sometimes called the Behavioral Interview. These interview questions ask people what they really did in their job and not hypothetical questions about what the candidate might do in a given situation. This is a good way to drill into actual behaviors such as communications, decision making, conflict resolution, etc.

Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

This solution discusses why structured interviews are considered more effective than unstructured interviews. Pros and cons are discussed for each method. Behavioral Event Interviews are also discussed. It includes links and examples.

Solution Preview

Structured interviews are considered more effective than unstructured interviews because they allow the interviewer to ask the same specific questions to each candidate. In addition, by demanding that there is a set list of questions the interviewer must prepare for the interview, determining what is important to ask each job candidate, and often further drilling down the specifics of the position, thus clarifying the position better. In addition, asking the same questions to each candidate the committee will be better able to access each candidate through a rating scale. Furthermore, ...

Solution provided by:
Sally Baldwin, Ed.D
Education
  • BA, University of Southern California
  • MSS, United States Sports Academy
  • Ed.D, Boise State University
Recent Feedback
  • "Thk u"
  • "Thank you!:)"
  • "Thank you!:)"
  • "Thank you!:)"
  • "Thank you!:)"
Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Team Development Strategies

This quiz will assess your knowledge of team-building processes, learning styles, and leadership methods. Team development is essential to creating and maintaining high performing teams.

Production and cost theory

Understanding production and cost phenomena will permit firms to make wise decisions concerning output volume.

Transformational Leadership

This quiz covers the topic of transformational leadership. Specifically, this quiz covers the theories proposed by James MacGregor Burns and Bernard Bass. Students familiar with transformational leadership should easily be able to answer the questions detailed below.

Six Sigma for Process Improvement

A high level understanding of Six Sigma and what it is all about. This just gives you a glimpse of Six Sigma which entails more in-depth knowledge of processes and techniques.

Accounting: Statement of Cash flows

This quiz tests your knowledge of the components of the statements of cash flows and the methods used to determine cash flows.

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • management

    The problem statement and the strategic plan have to be well defined and structured by the organization with the assistance of the information attained from the qualitative interviewing technique.

  • Interviewing Styles

    578692 Interviews Describe the advantages of structured interviews compared to unstructured interviews. Consider why so many companies still use unstructured interviews, and what you would advise them.

  • Interviewing Techniques: Behavioral vs Structural Compared

    Staffing experts recommend the use of structured interviews in the selection process. Question: Why are Structured Interviews considered to be more effective than Behavioural Interviews? Discuss the pros and cons of each method.

  • This post addresses structured interviews.

    473225 structured interview Describe the structured interview, noting characteristics that improve upon the shortcomings of unstructured interviews.

  • Structured interview and an unstructured interview

    Structured interviews allow for a level of interviewer discretion in conducting the interview. There is a process or structure that demands adherence to predetermined or preset rules.

  • Human Resource-What are the criteria by which initial assessment methods are evaluated?

    Structured interviews are interviews conducted by organizations that are setup or developed in a certain way. Structured interviews are characterized by a number of different factors.

  • Interview Methods

    Structured Interviews: A Practical Guide. (2008). U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

  • job analysis methods

    Those interviews can be individual interviews where the manager interviews the person and fills out the information or it can be a group interview where a team of employees from the department that is hiring - ask different questions of the applicant.

  • Data Collection Methods

    Structured in-person interviews can be useful when participants have difficulty with a written survey or when a researcher wants to clarify (qualitative) questions in addition to structured questions.

View More Related Solutions