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How confidence and knowledge of interview processes affect college students' success in job searches

Jill Elizabeth Ormesher, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Abstract

The importance of the job interview for both the candidate and the employer in the hiring process has been established. The job interview may be given greater weight in decisions involving recent college graduates, who often have little experience. Research has focused on behaviors related to successful interviewing, both verbal and non-verbal, and on interventions aimed at improving interview performance. Yet no intervention has proven to be significantly more effective than others. The purpose of this correlational study was to examine the relationship between confidence in interviewing, knowledge of interview questions, and job interview performance. Confidence and knowledge are factors assumed to influence job interview performance but no research has examined the validity of this assumption or whether a relationship exists between confidence and knowledge. Results showed negative relationships between knowledge of interview questions and job interview performance, and between knowledge of interview questions and confidence in interviewing. A positive relationship existed between confidence in interviewing and job interview performance. This study has significance for anyone involved in a job search, professional interviewers, and those in education--teachers, trainers, administrators, and curriculum planners.

Subject Area

Vocational education|Business education|Academic guidance counseling

Recommended Citation

Ormesher, Jill Elizabeth, "How confidence and knowledge of interview processes affect college students' success in job searches" (1997). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI9734633.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI9734633

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