Guidelines for “Office Interview” Primary Knowledge, Business Psychology and Tactfulness.

Office Interview

Introduction

Office interviews are usually conducted to recruit officials. However, the nature of interview conducted for superior and subordinate officials varies.

When interviewing applicants for different posts, the interviewer is the official and the applicant is the interviewee. Each will follow certain more or less fixed principles.

The interviewer is obviously there to make a “discovery and to choose a right man”. In other words, to see that he gets a square peg for a square hole. He will, therefore, be advised to allow more scope to the interviewee and to the extent efface himself so that the personal qualities of the candidate can be more accurately assessed.

The first rule then is to listen patiently and with an open mind.

Test to be Used Not more than four or five leading questions will be necessary to reach a fair judgment, provided these are so formulated as to test the following qualities that are desirable:

(i) Initiative

(ii) Reliability

(iii) Efficiency

(iv) Training and Experience

(v) Character.