prep上这么说的 “Rather than using traditional question-and-answer interviews to evaluate job candidates, employers should observe candidates as they perform some of the job’s actual tasks.”
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The issue here is whether to use traditional question-and-answer interviews or to observe candidates as they perform some of the job’s actual tasks is more efficient for employers to evaluate job candidates. The speaker maintains that the latter way is far more appropriate than the former one. In my point of view, however, either of the two means has an advantage over the other, thus no employer should use only one way to obtain an accurate evaluation unless for special cases.
In the past days, employers were used to giving interviews during which they just needed to ask questions, judged the interviewee by the answers given out and finally made decisions, yet the real performance of the employees admitted from these interviews revealed huge problems. For instance, some of the job candidates spent so much time preparing for the interviews that the excellent and amazing answers could only be attributed to the sufficient preparation. When these candidates came to work, they were not able to complete their tasks in time since they lacked the capability of solving new problems. In the contrast, to observe candidates as they perform some actual tasks will provide the employers much information about how well candidates will be able to work out the tasks. So it is apparent that the traditional method can only evaluate candidates narrowly.
In order to know the actual ability of candidates, it is wise for employers to allocate tasks to them. The interviewees therefore have to face challenges just as they are on work. Both the shortcomings and the merits that question-and-answer interviews cannot show will be easily observed during this process. However, this process may take a long time together with much cost that most corporations cannot afford while they can carry out a traditional interview economically.
Because either kind of interview is imperfect, we may combine the two or make a choice between them according to different situations. To employ workers on some simple jobs, a traditional interview is enough; to attract some advanced talents, an interview with actual tasks is needed and it will be better to add a question-and-answer interview. In this way, a corporation may successfully get its dream employees.
In summary, employers should choose different kinds of interview so as to get the most accurate evaluation of the job candidates, in that either the interview the speaker mentions has superiority and inferiority. A wise employer will make a proper combination of the two kinds when faced with different cases.