Strengths and Weaknesses of Personal Interview Process

This article discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the personal interview process in recruitment. It highlights how personal interviews can provide in-depth information about candidates, but also mentions that they can be time-consuming and costly. The article is relevant for individuals and organizations involved in the recruitment process.

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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................1
P6 Personal Interview for Job......................................................................................................1
P7 Strength and weakness of Personal Interview process...........................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Personal interview is a process where face to face interaction between the interviewer and
candidate take place and the evaluation and assessment is made if the candidate is right for the
job. There are 2 people under this, interviewer who takes interview and interviewee who gives
interview (Anzaldúa, 2020). In this report more detailed information about the personal interview
is provided. One real situation is also discussed. Along with the advantage and disadvantages of
the personal interview to the hotel.
TASK 4
P6: Personal Interview for Job.
Position: hotel supervisor
Interviewee: May I come in sir?
Interviewer: Come in and have a seat.
Interviewee: Thank you so much sir and a happy morning.
Interviewer: Same to you. So tell me something about yourself?
Interviewee: My name is Mathew hales and i am 28 year old. I believe that I have excellent
managing skill and believe in team work. I have good communication skills as well.
Interviewer: So as you know that the job profile is for hotel supervisor and we find your
application suitable for it. Coming to the profile do you have any prior knowledge about the
profile, the role and responsibility related to it?
Interviewee: Yes sir, I have basic knowledge about the role as it is related to managing a team
and there are lot of responsibility attach to it like team building and improving the efficiency
of the group allotted to me. But i will like to know more about the same.
Interviewer: Managing the employee is the essential element and bringing coordination and
handling issues are the responsibility. You will be the face of the hotel so you should know
how to carry yourself. Discipline becomes an essence of the job. For you as well as for your
team. Focus should be given on services to the customer should be qualitative.
Interviewee: thanks a lot sir. I believe i can do this mentioned things. I am looking forward to the
job and i will give my 100% on it.
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Interviewer: you are a fit candidate for our job description. According to your resume and
personal meeting you are the best out of the lot we have.
Interviewee: so happy to hear that from you sir. Hope i can rise up to your expectations.
Interviewer: about the salary. You will be paid 35000 pound and incentive will be on basis of
your performance. Is it fine?
Interviewee: yes sir.
Interviewer: detail will be shared to you about the joining via mail
Interviewee: thank you sir, looking forward to contribute positively to Starwood hotels. Have an
amazing day sir.
Interviewer: You too Mathew. Congratulations and best wishes for the future.
Interviewee: thank you sir, appreciated.
P7 Strength and weakness of Personal Interview process.
The advantage and disadvantages of personal interview process is discussed below.
Strength
 In depth information: thorough information about the candidate can be identified with the
help of personal interview, it will help the company to get a right candidate (Doran, 2014).
 Avoid in effectiveness due to any barrier: it will avoid communication barrier like noise,
poor connectivity, less attention etc which is good for Starwood hotels.
Weaknesses
 Time consuming: it takes lot of time as the process is lengthy and it may delay recruitment
and selection process. Starwood hotel will like to adapt more efficient method to save time
 Costly: the process also required a lot of cost as expenditure is high on conducting a
interview (Bašnáková and et. al., 2015). Set up cost is high which another disadvantage for
the hotel is.
CONCLUSION
From above discussion it has been concluded that Interview helps the company in
recruitment process to select a right employee for the profile so that firm productivity can be
increased.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Anzaldúa, G. E., 2020. Interviews/entrevistas. Routledge.
Doran, C. E., 2014. Ethical codes of conduct: Theory and application in small and medium
businesses (Doctoral dissertation, University of Salford).
Rowley, J., 2012. Conducting research interviews. Management research review.
Bašnáková, J. and et. al., 2015. A job interview in the MRI scanner: How does indirectness affect
addressees and overhearers?. Neuropsychologia, 76. pp.79-91.
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