Interviewing

LEI 4524 Leadership & Supervision

WRITTEN PROJECT #8

INTERVIEWING

 Part A

In your future career field, you are likely to be a mid or upper level manager who has the occasional responsibility to hire new employees.  Some hires will be for full-time professional positions, while other hires could be for entry level positions that require little education or experience.  Many new hires will be for positions that are in between those extremes.

Your text covers a variety of approaches for screening and interviewing applicants. There are also variations within each approach.  For example, face to face interviews could be in front of several people in a panel or just you and possibly one other person.  You might use tests, simulated work exercises, team projects, or demonstrations.  Then again, it could be a basic one-on-one discussion type interview with a set of questions.

Which approach to interviewing is best for you in your future career field?  That answer is likely to differ based upon the type of position that you are trying to fill.

Your assignment is to decide two different types of positions in your career field that you, as a manager, will need to employ.  For each of the two positions, explain what approach you will take for interviewing job candidates.  Explain why that approach is the best for that type of position.  Note that you may need a multi-method approach.  For example, you may do telephone interviews to screen out some applicants, then follow that with another interview approach for your “finalists.”   You may even need a third step in some cases.

The expectation is for three full pages of discussion, with approximately one page for each of the two types of positions.  You are to have at least two cited reference source in addition to that of your text or instructor presentations.  The reference list must be the fourth page.

Part B

Decide on 10 Questions to ask your candidate in one of the positions you came up with for Part A. Just list them out, do not put in paragraph form.