Definitions
Key Terms
Interviewing
Interviewing II
200

__________is the ability to accurately perceive and appraise emotion in oneself and others, and to appropriately regulate and express emotion.


EQ

200

___________ inventory consists of short, written statements related to various personality traits.

self-report

200

__________are preliminary interviews designed to fill gaps left on the candidate’s application form or résumé; these sometimes serve recruitment as well as selection functions.

Screening Interviews

200

_________conducted over a long distance, including telephone interviews, videoconference interviews, Internet interviews, or computerized interviews, which serve as alternatives to face-to-face interviews.

Long-distance Interviews

300

_________are traits or characteristics that involve the control of muscle movements

Psychomotor Abilities 

300

_______measures how an individual's personality traits correlate to his or her job performance.

The Caliper Profile

300

________typically consists of a series of short (5–15 minute) consecutive interviews.


Speed Interviewing

300

___________usually unstructured interviews that ask applicants to solve puzzles or unusual problems.

Puzzle Interviews

400

__________ensure that an applicant meets minimum standards of health to cope with the physical demands of the job.

Physical fitness tests

400

___________ is designed to give companies a picture of how certain behaviors influence a candidate's work performance.

The SHL Occupational Personality Questionnaire, or OPQ32

400

__________is an interview conducted by two or more interviewers together at one time.

A panel interview

400

_____________a version of the speed interview where applicants participate in a circuit of 12 eight-minute interviews with 12 different interviewers and 12 different interview stations.

Multiple Mini-Interviews

500

___________assess aptitude or proficiency in performing important job tasks by using tasks that are abstract and less realistic than those performed on the actual job.

Situational exercises

500

______________ was developed in the 1980s and was originally used in a socio-analytic context, but it's now used to predict job performance.

The Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI)

500

___________refer to a series of interviews where the applicant is interviewed separately by each of two or more interviewers.

Serial interviews

500

__________ is a structured interview in which the applicant is asked to describe what the candidate did in a given situation in the past.

A behavioural interview (BI)

100

____________is a simulation exercise designed to assess leadership, organizational, and communication skills.

Leaderless group discussion

100

_________will help an organization in assessing an employee’s tendency, to be honest and trustworthy. The objective is to search for candidates who will not be involved in counterproductive activities such as theft, absenteeism, non-adherence to rules, etc.

Mettl Assessment for Integrity Testing

100

__________ is a highly structured interview in which important or decisive situations employees are likely to encounter on the job are described and in which applicants are asked what they would do in these situations.

 situational interview

100

_________ is a traditional method of interviewing that involves no constraints on the questions asked.

The unstructured interview

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