This article describes a game show-style classroom exercise that is appropriate for any management-related courses that wish to enrich students' understanding of a key phase of the hiring process. The activity introduces the importance of job descriptions and job specifications through a semiscripted unstructured interview patterned after a…

Personnel selection is a key topic in Human Resource Management (HRM) courses. Many selection exercises focus on management situations that are unfamiliar to students who are taking introductory HRM courses. In contrast, this exercise introduces students to the pre-interview steps in the personnel selection process by asking them to determine the…

Structured interviews are widely used in the employment process; however, students often have little experience asking and responding to structured interview questions. In a format similar to "speed dating," this exercise actively engages students in the interview process. Students pair off to gain experience as an interviewer by asking…

Videotapes designed to teach job interview skills to deaf students were developed. Three interview situations featuring one hearing and two hearing impaired persons are presented in the videotapes. (CL)

Research related to employment decision making and the handicapped is reviewed, and factors influencing interviewer decisions are seen to include qualifications, negative information, elapsed time, age, and nonverbal behavior. Five suggestions for teaching interviewing skills to mentally retarded persons are offered. (CL)

Details specific methods for preparing students for employment interviews, emphasizing the paramount importance of interpersonal communication skills. (SK)

Outlines an assignment for teaching job search skills, including writing a cover letter, resume, and interview follow-up letter. Proposes that the instructor act as interviewer, video tape each interview, and analyze each student's performance. (JAD)

Describes helping business students prepare for job interviews and other business events by learning and practicing business etiquette at a dinner set up by business-communication instructors and the university food service. (SR)

Guidelines are given to the jobseeker on preparation for and proper conduct during a job interview. Suggestions are made for helping students to get ready for the interview experience. (SJL)

Notes that employers' use of behavioral description interviews has increased dramatically within the past decade. Explains that behavioral description questions require respondents to tell stories and that storytelling is now critical to applicants' success in employment interviews. Presents criteria to judge the effectiveness of applicants'…

Describes a college-level job search teaching unit that is a practical method of preparing appropriate resumes, participating in effective job interviews, and getting and keeping the job. The unit's four phases are explained: securing job leads, writing resumes and letters of application, the interview, and the postinterview. (CT)

The emphasis in this course is placed upon employer/employee relationships. It is based on the idea that information about and experience with Transactional Analysis can help adolescents and adults to understand some of the powerful dynamics that can happen among people. Once those dynamics are understood, the student can access experience to make…

Offers a classroom exercise on job interviews that acquaints students with the stages and the actual time-frame of a good interview and gives them classroom practice in being interviewed. (RL)

Reports on a field study that examined communication behaviors in job interviews. Recommends a training method for developing the communication skills that job applicants will need. (RL)

Offers ways to amplify current instruction on the all-important job interview. Discusses resumes, job application letters, oral reports, preparing for the interview, mock interview checklist, doing the interview, sample interview questions, and leaving the interview. (SR)