Intelviewers judge the interest, knowledge, and intelligence of a candidate by the questions she or he asks

List of behaviours rated offensive by professional interviewers.

Research by Goetzinger (1954) provides a list of behaviours rated offensive by professional interviewers. The list is rather lengthy: it includes dishonesty, lack of interest, belligerence or impoliteness, evasiveness, overconcern with salary, lack of concentration, lack ofinitiative, indecisiveness, arrogance, feelings of persecution, cynicism, intolerance or prejudice, lateness, limp handshake, unclarity of expression, lack of career planning, lack of acquaintance with the company, lack of maturity, poor moral standards, improper appearance, and overselling of self. While some of these may strike us as trivial, they nonetheless seem important to interviewers and consequently are worth our notice.

In addition to avoiding the behaviours, we can enhance our performances an interviewee by asking intelligent questions. Often intelviewers judge the interest, knowledge, and intelligence of a candidate by the questions she or he asks. We therefore would do well to have in mind several reasonable, carefully thought out questions which would both provide useful infOlmation to us and demonstrate our competence to the intelviewer.

If at the close of the interview no decision has been made concerning our hiring, we should follow up the interview with a personal letter expressing appreciation to the interviewer and sending any additional information which we think might be helpful. Again, this demonsn'ates our interest in the position while providing the intelviewer to respond.

Before leaving our consideration of the employment interview, we want to emphasize the most important element of that situation: honesty. If an interviewer becomes too concerned with selling the organization, or if an interviewee 'becomes too concerned with selling himself, deception, international or accidental, may occur with the result that the company, the employee, or both may ultimately be unhappy. Regardless of the role you are to play in an employment interview, you should be as open as possible, for only through an honest, compiete exchange of information will the best decision be made.

An operation, conducting a market surveyor opinion poll, and questioning a prominent person to develop a news story. This interview type ranges from the most informational requests for information to lengthy, prescheduled sessions of intensive questioning.