Question

Write Short note:

Interview

Answer 1

It is the most common method of measuring personality. It is a process in which any interviewer tries to collect information about the personality of an interviewee by asking various questions.

Factors like time taken to give answers, gestures, postures, body movements, etc. of an interviewee are also taken into account while measuring personality of an interviewee.

There are two types of interviews:

1. Structured Interview: It is a type of interview in which the total number of questions, the sequence of questions, and so on are predetermined. When industrial psychologists use structured interviews to select someone for a specific job, no questions are added or deleted on the spot.
2. Unstructured Interview: It is a type of interview in which the total number of questions to be asked to the interviewee, the sequence of questions, etc. are not pre-determined. Depending on the responses of an interviewee, some questions are added or deleted on the spot. Generally, clinical psychologists, counselling psychologists, health psychologists, sport psychologists, etc. use unstructured interview for collecting detailed information about the person ality of their clients.