BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Interviewing
- the practice of asking questions of another person in order to gain information and make an assessment. Interviewing is a selection tool used in recruitment to assess somebody's suitability for a job. A structured interview relies on asking the same job-related questions of all candidates and systematically evaluating their responses. There are two principal models: the behavioral interview, which strives to find out how applicants have behaved in the past in similar situations; and the situational interview, in which they are asked hypothetical questions to determine how they might act in the future. Interviewing is a technique also used in counseling, performance appraisal, and as part of a disciplinary procedure.
- See also Discipline
Wiktionary Definition for: Interviewing
- Present participle of ''to interview.''
Additional Resources
- Interviewing Over the Telephone
- Many hiring managers conduct telephone interviews in the early stages of the recruiting process because it can be a cost- and time-efficient way to narrow down a list of candidates. This method of interviewing also offers valuable insight for positions that require phone communication skills.Managers generally conduct face-to-face interviews before...
- Articles 2007-10-16
- Video Interviewing: Not Yet Ready For Prime Time
- Video may have killed the radio star. However, video interviewing has a long way to go before it makes extinct more traditional forms of employee screening. Despite technological advances in teleconferencing, video recording, and streaming media, the applications for video interviewing have not advanced significantly beyond a few years ago....
- White papers 2001-08-01
- Peer Interviewing: How To Involve Peers In Interviewing
- Peer interviewing - Where coworkers interview potential new hires - offers you the chance to create a great team. In peer interviewing, members of a work group help choose new employees. Traditionally, employers relied on supervisors to screen candidates. But, nowadays, supervisors, peers and even subordinates may take part in...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Tips On Behavioral Interviewing
- In recent years, employers have been using "Behavior based" interviewing techniques to more accurately select employees. Behavioral based interviewing is a structured series of questions designed to examine a person's past behavior in situations similar to those on the job. Behavioral interviewing is based on the assumption that the best...
- White papers 2008-09-20
- Interviewing
- Many studies have shown that interviewing does not provide the company with the best candidate for the job. Does that mean that interviewing is bad? No, it's more that most interviewers are not that good. Very often, you'll be interviewed by a recruiter who doesn't know that much about the...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Interviewing Techniques and Legal and Illegal Questions In Interviewing
- This article explains types of techniques used in employment interviewing - structured and unstructured. Those who are inexperienced in interviewing will probably prefer the structured approach or a combination of the two. In the structured interview, a determination is made in advance of the questions and their sequence (as much...
- White papers 2000-07-24
- Audio Computer-Assisted Self-Interviewing (ACASI) May Avert Socially Desirable Responses About Infant Feeding in the Context of HIV
- Understanding infant feeding practices in the context of HIV and factors that put mothers at risk of HIV infection is an important step towards prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV PMTCT. Face-to-face FTF interviewing may not be a suitable way of ascertaining this information because respondents may report...
- White papers 2005-08-02
- Interviewing For Internships
- Interviewing for an internship or co-op assignment does not have to be a scary process! Think of it as conversation between you and an internship representative to see if there is a fit between your goals and the internship position. You are interviewing her, just as she is interviewing you....
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Making The Most Of On-Campus Interviewing
- On-campus interviewing success does not consist of meeting with three or five or even ten companies and then picking the one you want to work for. To maximize your on-campus interviewing success, you need to maximize both the quality and quantity of the interviews, and then maximize your interview efficiency....
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Interviewing: The Advanced Course
- Many lawyers think they know everything they need to know about interviewing. After all, how hard can it be to answer an interviewer's questions when you're thinking on your feet all day in court and preparing witnesses for cross examination? Because a lawyer's verbal abilities may be high, he may...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Behavioural Interviewing Strategies
- Behavioural interviewing is a relatively new mode of job interviewing. Employers such as AT&T and Accenture the former Andersen Consulting have been using behavioural interviewing for about 15 years now, and because increasing numbers of employers are using behaviour-based methods to screen job candidates, understanding how to excel in this...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- How To Improve Your Interviewing Skills
- Interviewing is one of the most daunting and stress-inducing experiences many job seekers will encounter. There is no way to anticipate every possible question or every possible situation you may be put into, but there are some steps you can take to improve your interviewing skills and develop a solid...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- How To Improve Your Job Interviewing Techniques
- If you want to pursue a career change, now is a good time to improve your interviewing skills. All it takes is a little research and a lot of practice, and soon you will excel at the interviewing process. Next thing you know, the job of your dreams may be...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- How To Use Behavior-Based Structured Interviewing
- The success of any organization depends upon choosing the right people for team. However, a question, which remains, is that how do one pick the best from the rest? Fortune 500 companies and government agencies hiring success and legal advantages can be applied in large and small company environments. In...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Basic Interviewing Techniques
- An effective cover letter and a well-prepared résumé will open the door for your consideration for a job, but they will not secure the job for you. They give you the opportunity to demonstrate to the employer, on paper, that you are one of the best applicants for a position....
- White papers 2005-08-25
- Motivational interviewing for less drinking.(Brief Article)
- Motivational Interviewing for Less Drinking --Universities trying to help students decrease their drinking may want to try motivational interviewing. University of Washington psychologist G. Alan Marlatt notes the approach has worked well in its BASICS Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students program. The simple...
- Research articles 2004-03-01
- The Four C's To Successful Interviewing
- For Some people interviewing can be nerve racking. What do I say? How do I make a good impression? What should I wear? etc. With so many tips and advice out there, this paper gives some suggestions for interviewing from a Bookkeeping and Accounting Employer to help you out. Confidence...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Interviewing The Interviewer: 5 Questions To Ask
- Everyone does a lot of speculating about job interviews from the perspective of the person being interviewed. "What will they ask? What types of responses are they looking for?" But there is another aspect of interviewing that is equally important - interviewing the interviewer. Why would you interview the interviewer?...
- White papers 2007-05-15
- Successful Interviewing Techniques
- Developing proper job interviewing skills is essential to career success as it enables job seekers to present themselves in the most positive light. Yet many candidates still go to job interviews unprepared. For those job seekers who are really serious about making the most of an interview opportunity, here are...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Employment Interviewing: Ask For The Job
- We walk into an interview with the unspoken assumption that the employer knows we want the job. Except for practice interviewing or cold calling, we put out the time and energy for an interview because we think the position is worthwhile and will be a good fit. The employer may...
- White papers 2008-01-01
