Finding, applying and being interviewed for a position

Question 1

What are PJ and PO fit?

Answer 1

• PJ Fit
  
  • The extent to which a job fits an employees knowledge, skills and abilities, and the extent to which a job meets an employees needs, desires or preferences
• PO Fit
  
  • The value congruence between the individual and organisation

Question 2

What are PJ and PO fit related to?

Answer 2

• High value of PJ fit and PO fit are related to better employee satisfaction, commitment, low turnover, higher levels of performance and interpersonal helping
• In the job search process, the job applicant and the recruiter are both looking for cues to establish PJ and PO fit

Question 3

What types of resumes are there?

Answer 3

• Chronological
• Functional
• Targeted

Question 4

What is a chronological resume?

Answer 4

• Includes all the usual parts of a resume but is simpler and shorter than functional and targeted
• Suited to a graduate with relevant educational qualifications but limited employment experiences

Question 5

What is a functional resume?

Answer 5

• Each skill or work experience should be highlighted according to its relevance to the essential and desirable qualifications of the position
• aka skills resume
• Work experience first, reverse chronologicaly and develop subheadings that highlight the job functions in which expertise has been demonstrated
• Suited to person with substatial work experience

Question 6

What is a targeted resume?

Answer 6

• aka specific

- Emphasis relevant skills and work experience for a specific job

Question 7

What is the strategy for letter writing?

Answer 7

• AIDA Forumla

- Writing strategy for a persuasive letter

Question 8

What is the AIDA formula?

Answer 8

• Writing strategy for a persuasive letter
• Attention
  
  • Oper with a sentence or paragraph that grabs attention
• Interest
  
  • In the next paragraph, develop the interest of the reader, show what is in it for them
• Desire
  
  • Use the middle paragraph to develop the desire to invite you for an interview
• Action
  
  • State in concluding paragraph the action to be taken

Question 9

What kinds of interview are there?

Answer 9

Single, series, panel or stress

Question 10

What kinds of bias’s are relevant to interviewing?

Answer 10

• Confirmation bias
• Affective heuristic
• Anchoring
• Intuition

Question 11

What is confirmation bias?

Answer 11

Tendency to seek out information that supports a preconceived belief

Question 12

What is the affective heuristic?

Answer 12

Interview’s decisions are influenced by quick and superficial evaluations

Question 13

What is anchoring?

Answer 13

• Tendency for interviewers to place an arbitrary anchor of expectation of a candidate, which then influences their evaluation of the candidate
• Only see one part of the job to be most important and rank candidate on that

Question 14

What is the STAR model?

Answer 14

• Way of presenting information against selection criteria
• Situation
• Task
• Actions
• Results