Using Web-Based Behavioral Skills Training to Teach Online Interview Skills to College Students

ABSTRACT

Behavioral Skills Training (BST) is an effective procedure for teaching new skills, like interview skills. BST typically includes instruction, modeling, rehearsal, and feedback. Multiple studies have demonstrated that BST can be used in a web-based context, but no studies, to our knowledge, have extended the literature by using BST to teach online interview skills. This study extended and replicated previous research on teaching interview skills with BST by using this procedure to teach interview skills to college students in a synchronous web-based video format. We evaluated the intervention using a multiple baseline design across targets with follow-up sessions testing for maintenance and generalization. All participant performance improved from baseline to post-training across all targeted dependent variables. Participants also rated social validity measures highly, aligning with previous research. Implications, limitations, and future directions are discussed.

KEYWORDS:

• BST
• interview skills
• training

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Isabella Tassistro, Justin Santos, Anthony Mennella, Xikeria van der laan, Anise Wooten, Farah Contractor, and Andrew Smith for their assistance with interobserver agreement and treatment integrity. The authors would like to thank Jessica Nastasi for reviewing an earlier version of the manuscript.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Supplementary material

Supplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/01608061.2023.2219466.