Substantive Selection Device: Structured Interviews

Substantive Selection Device
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Structured interviews can enhance the effectiveness of the selection process of a company. It is a selection technique that entails interviewing process standardization by leveraging job analysis to inform the questions and developing a synchronized scoring approach for all interviewees. The standardized questions are situationally and behaviorally anchored. It requires interviewer training and designing a scoring guideline, eventually resulting in enhanced interrater concordance as well as predispositions compared to conventional interviewing processes (Bergelson et al., 2022). In this way, it is deemed that structured interviews constitute the substantive assessment technique that will likely augment the selection process.
Structured interviews are less costly because they follow a structured process, implying that the human resource (HR) manager simply asks specific questions. The behavioral questions offer opportunities for increased accuracy and understanding of the candidate’s re...