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RANDOM STUFF TO RESEARCH AND POSSIBLY INCLUDE

Other research has focused on the outcomes in the domain of job recruitment. First impressions significantly predict employers’ behavioral tendencies during job interviews as well as their ultimate recruitment decisions (Barrick, Swider, & Stewart, 2010; Swider, Barrick, & Harris, 2016). Specifically, employers tend to ask questions that confirm their first impressions about the candidates and treat them in ways that are consistent with such impressions (Snyder & Swann, 1978). If their initial impressions of the candidates are positive, employers show a higher tendency to “sell” the job by providing information to the candidates about the job rather than gathering information from them (Dougherty, Ebert, & Callender, 1986; Dougherty, Turban, & Callender, 1994). In turn, employers’ warmer behaviors typically elicit warmer behaviors from the candidates (e.g., Snyder, Tanke, and Berscheid, 1977), and thus the employers’ initial positive impressions about the candidates are validated. Importantly, however, even in cases when a job candidate performs in ways that disconfirm employers’ first impressions, employers may fail to assess the candidate’s performance accurately, preventing them from changing their first impressions accordingly. Research has shown that this might be due to high levels of self-regulation on behalf of the interviewers (Nordstrom, Hall, & Bartels, 1998). Therefore, reducing cognitive demands in an interview context by using scripted questions or having third-party observers evaluate the interview process might be effective in fostering accurate impressions and judgments of a job candidate.

Studying First Impressions: What to Consider?

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

According to Walton College of Business Career Services, some of the most common interview questions that you should prepare for when going into an interview are as follows.

• Tell me about yourself.
• What interests you most about this job?
• Why did you choose your major/degree?
• What do you know about our company?
• Tell me about a time when you managed a team project?
• Give me an example of working with a difficult customer/client?
• Give me an example of when you failed.
• Tell me a time when you felt you like you were a success.
• What is your greatest strength/weakness?
• Why should I hire you?
• Tell me about a time when you exhibited leadership skills.

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