Core processes and applicant reactions to the employment interview: an exploratory study in Greece

Abstract

This research explores the employment interview in Greece with two aims: first, to look at the practice of the employment interview from the interviewer perspective, exploring a number of issues, which have been identified as important for increasing interview's effectiveness and second, to look at the role of interviewers' characteristics on applicant reactions and their behavioral intentions to the actual interview, using two independent samples of interviewers (N = 131) and actual job applicants (N = 122), respectively. The results of the first study were quite supportive regarding the effective use of the employment interview in Greece. In the second study, interviewers' personal characteristics were related to applicants' post-interview attitudes and intentions, although this relationship was fully mediated by the overall perception of the interview held by the job applicant. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.

Keywords:

• applicant reactions
• employee–personnel selection
• employment interview
• Greece
• interviewer

Notes

1. The results of the MMR analyses regarding hypothesis 3 are not presented for economy of space, but they are available from the author.