Question

Briefly describe each of the following interview types

1.Situational
2.Behavior
3.Stress
4.Structural
5.Panel

Answer 1

Answer:

Interview:

Interview is defined as a “one to one” conversation or “one to many” conversation being carried out where generally questions are asked by one side and answers are given by other side. The purpose of these interviews is to understand/know/assess the subject issue/person with appropriate details.

Generally job interviews are very famous and being carried out for assessment of the applicant/candidate for his suitability for the organization.

Brief description of each of the following interview types is as below

Situational Interview: Situational Interview is the assessment of the candidate in situation management. This is an interview technique in which a candidate is placed in a conflict or problematic situations, where the candidate needs to assess, analyze and make appropriate decisions. Thus this interview is carried out for assessment of candidate’s capability in terms situation assessment and decision making approach.

Behavior Interview: This is an interview in which the behavior of the candidate is to be assessed. In this interview the interviewers want to assess the behavior of the candidate, so for that they will want to ask question which can describe the behavior of the candidate. Like explain how you managed the case, how you handled the situation. How did you performed in you last role etc. In this interview the interviewer interested in understanding the actual behavior demonstrated by the candidate in past organization.

Stress Interview: Stress interview is generally carried out when the candidate is hired for a high stress working environment like sale, stock broker, customer service, warranty settlements etc.

The purpose of this stress interview is to assess the candidate’s capability towards stress management. In this interview many questions are asked in stress ways. So candidate to focus on question and not on the manner the question is asked. The interviewers are generally focusing for stress assessment and not knowledge on the question. The interviewer may put in comfortable situations and want to assess the response of candidate in stress situation.

Structural Interview: Structured interview is the interview typically formal and well organized interview carried out for the candidate assessment. In this interview there may have many interviewers just like a panel interview.

This interview will start in a very formal manner. The Interviewer may ask you icebreaking question so that the candidate become comfortable in the interview. Then later they will have multiple question of education, qualification, experience, achievements, etc.

Finally the interview panel may ask the candidate if the candidate has any question for the interviewers, so that they can reply to candidate.

Panel Interview: Panel interview is the interview in which many interviewers are available to finalize the candidate. The panel interview ill have multiple interviewers and they will ask questions based on their interests. In panel interview, the candidate needs to take note of the name of each interviewer person and refer to them by their name. The keep focus to the person who has asked you question along with eye contact with the entire person time to time.