Interviewing Skills

My role was to gather the information from the managers, advertise the position in the local newspapers and within our company, interview several candidates, and select two which the three managers would then interview themselves. My main task in this process was to be aware of the parts of the process and do everything I could to move it along, saving valuable time for the busy managers. Although, officially, it is not really my responsibility to help the three reach agreement on what and who they wanted, informally that seems to go with the territory of cooperating with these people.

For the purposes of this paper I wish to focus mostly on the meetings I held with each of the managers individually in their offices to determine what they wanted in the new employee. I elected to do this part of the

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cepts and generalization regarding the interviewing process. First of all, I was quite aware that communication between individuals is delicate, at times haphazard and precarious. Various experts have written and developed psychological theories about how vastly different individuals can be in how they perceive and convey their views of reality. It was the quiet, introspective manager who asked that I not hire anyone with a loud voice. Psychological principles and theories tell us that people are quite unique and different, and we cannot ever assume that we completely understand what another is saying unless we ask and they confirm it. It seems generally true in office situations that men like to have women working for them. Even though our society has made great strides in the areas of equality between the sexes, there is a long way to go before there is complete parity of the two genders. It is my hypothesis that even with sophisticated technology and automation of various office procedures, it will be a great many generations before men do not prefer having a woman working with them or for them in various subordinate tasks. I believe that the idea of a man doing what the three managers perceived as secretarial, maybe ev
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