The aim of a job interview is to establish whether you are likely to

do well in a particular job in a specific organization. This is not only a

matter of having the necessary technological knowledge and skills. You 【M1】________

must also have the motivation, the ability to adopt to new ways of 【M2】________

working and to a new work environment, and the personality to do the

job and fit into a new team. But there are other personal skills affect 【M3】________

your success in a job. These include getting on with people, oral or 【M4】________

written communication, team working, problem solving and good time

management.

Most people think that interviewers know what they are looking for

and will recognize when they see it. However, people are actually not 【M5】_________

very good at assessing one and another. This applies to recruiters as 【M6】_________

much as anyone else. In fact, a former head of selection at one big firm

used to say that “some interviewers are so poor that they would do better

to rely on chances”.

In companies which recognize this, various methods are used to try

to find the correct person. The most common is the structured 【M7】_________

interview. Research has shown that this approach is more reliable than

the ordinary job interview, even no as effective as using tests or 【M8】_________

assessment centers. In a structured interview the interviewer groups the

qualities listing in the job specification under various headings. There are 【M9】_________

two well-established structures for this: the National Institute of

Industrial Psychology’s Seven-Point Plan and the Five-Fold Grading

System. The interviewers score candidates for how well they fit the job 【M10】________

specification.

【M2】