Little attention has been given to the role of the job applicant in the interview. From an organizational perspective, research data exist on interview reliability and validity, decision-making in the interview, and the training of interviewers, to name a few. Surprisingly, however, little information exists on job applicant interview behavior. This lack of research is intriguing, given the emphasis on interviewing by job hunting experts and writers in the career counseling and guidance disciplines (Adler, 1964;Bolles, 1979;Dubnick, 1967).Although research on the psychological aspects of interviewer decision making has revealed factors influencing interviewer decisions
Job search attitudes and behaviors among college students were studied. Major job-seeking factors were identified and discussed in relation to job search experience.
A mail survey of 519 Southern Baptists tested the prepotency of social linkages of predicting commitment in voluntary organizations. The results of the study indicated that instrumentality theory was a weak predictor of organizational commitment, while results were notably more consistent
with cohesion theory. The results are discussed and implications for theoretical and empirical research are addressed.
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