Review of The employment interview in industry

Abstract

Reviews the book "The employment interview in industry" (see record 1953-06183-000 ) by N. C. Kephart. The book covers the main items regarding content and method of the employment interview and a lot of other material about employment procedures. It is on this point that the author might be criticized, namely including so much other material in a book entitled Employment Interview. It would seem from the discussion that the interviewer gives tests and visual examinations, diagnoses mental-maladjustments and interprets all available predictors of the criterion. To be sure this is all pertinent to the process of hiring and the discussion of these aspects is sound. Actually there is scarcely enough material on the face-to-face aspect of the employment interview to make a respectable book and the author presumably did what any of us would have done under the circumstances. The initial chapter sets the place of the interview with reference to usual employment procedures. Then follow chapters about the content of the interview and some "how to" aspects. A chapter on personality includes specific items of behavior that might be observed during an interview. The last two chapters deal more specifically with the mechanics of the interview--what the reader would anticipate from the title of the book. The book is moderately well documented with references at the end of each chapter to a few pertinent experimental studies. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)