PSYC 3460 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Impression Management, Job Analysis, Physical Attractiveness

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3460
• Professor: Deborah Powell

Document Summary

Unstructured interviews: a traditional method of interviewing, features, no constraints on the questions asked, no requirements for standardization, subjective assessment of the candidate. Problems with unstructured interviews: evaluation of candidate may be biased by personal views and preferences, similarity to self bias, first impression bias, visual cues (e. g. , physical attractiveness, contrast effects, te(cid:373)plate of (cid:449)hat (cid:862)ideal(cid:863) (cid:272)a(cid:374)didate should look like. Impression management can measure best interview performance, rather than best candidate: such errors contribute reduce reliability and validity of unstructured interviews. Components that can contribute to employment interview structure. Interview questions are standardized: prompting, follow-up questions are limited. Top 5 appli(cid:272)ant (cid:862)do"s(cid:863) for a jo(cid:271) inter(cid:448)ie(cid:449: be honest. Impression management creating a specific impression during an interview: self promotion demonstrating responsibility for positive results in the past, techniques that do(cid:374)"t (cid:449)o(cid:396)k (cid:894)i(cid:374)te(cid:396)(cid:448)ie(cid:449)e(cid:396) e(cid:454)pe(cid:272)ts (cid:455)ou to sell (cid:455)ou(cid:396)self(cid:895) Image protection omitting or masking negative experiences.