On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 08:55:50 -0800, Marie Helweg-Larsen wrote:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/10/26/why-job-interviews-dont-work/
As I read through this news article I was reminded of Robyn Dawes
classic 1979 American Psychologist paper with the lovely title of
"The Robust Beauty of Improper Linear Models in Decision Making".
(for a copy, see:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.188.5825&rep=rep1&type=pdf )
which made the argument against the uncritical use of interviews
almost 25 years ago. It was nice to see that one of the references
provided in the above Washington Post article has Dawes as a
co-author:
Dana, J., Dawes, R., & Peterson, N. (2013) Belief in the unstructured
interview: The persistence of an illusion. Judgement and Decision
Making, 8, 512-520.
Have an A-1 Day!
-Mike Palij
New York University
[email protected]
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Clark [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2013 10:38 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: RE:[tips] Random Thought: "Tell Me About" Interview Questions
Hi
And here's one for those doing the selection:
Tell me about the research literature on the validity of interviews as
selection tools, especially for unstructured and holistic interviews.
Take care
Jim
Jim Clark
Professor & Chair of Psychology
204-786-9757
4L41A
-----Original Message-----
From: Louis Eugene Schmier [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2013 5:31 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] Random Thought: "Tell Me About" Interview Questions
Well, here at VSU we're beginning a hunt for a Provost/VPAA.
I'm sure
the headhunters and VSU search committee will vet all the applicants.
I'm sure
the finalists will have outstanding resumes. But, resumes go only so
far as I
discovered when VSU was hunting for a new President way back 2012 and
the
finalists for the position had meetings with a group of interested
faculty.
What I learned was that if you want to get a good sense of how people
feel and
think, if you want to get insights into who they are, ask them to tell
you
stories, personal stories. Why? Well, stories put flesh on the bones
of fact.
They live in the most intense and sacred places and moments. They're
the
primary text upon which everything else is commentary. They're
containers for
meaning. They're canvases on which is painted inner landscapes. They
offer
insights to the way a person sees the world. They reveal a person's
social,
personal, and professional identity. They are poetic truth of
personality that
go beyond Joe Friday's bland, "Just the facts, ma'am." These are some
of the
"tell me about" stories I would ask of any applicant for any position to
recite:
* Tell me about which of all the positions you've held was your
favorite. Why?
* Tell me about which of all that you've done in your life you
feel is
the most important. Why?
* Tell me about what do you enjoy the most. Why?
* Tell me about what do you enjoy the least. Why?
* Tell me about what do you do for fun, what feeds your soul.
Why?
* Tell me about something you've done that was creative.
* Tell me about a problem with a student (colleague, faculty
member,
etc) that you needed to solve. How did you solve it? Why did you solve
it
that particular way?
* Tell me about a situation where you didn't have anyone telling
you
what to do, but you had to go do it. What did you do? Why did you do
it that
particular way?
* Tell me about something complicated and complex, something you
know a
lot about, in plain and simple language, without jargon, using only
clear and
crisp and complete terms, so I understand it.
* Tell me about who you are. Forget and make no reference to
all your
personal roles such as father, friend, husband (wife), son (daughter),
forget
and make no reference to all your professional roles, your past and
present
titles, forget and make no reference to your degrees and all your
positions,
forget and make no reference to what you have, forget and make no
reference to
all that you have done. Just tell me about who you are.
* Tell me about the one sentence you want others to say about
you at
your eulogy.
There are a bunch of other "tell me about" stories I could ask.
And,
coming to think about it, we ought to use these "tell me about" stories,
and
more, to interview ourselves.
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