Improving the interview skills of college students using behavioral skills training

Stocco, Corey S.; Thompson, Rachel H.; Hart, John; Soriano, Heidi L.

doi:10.1002/jaba.385

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“…The training time included the BST session that was required for all participants to meet the mastery criterion. Stocco et al (2017) evaluated the effects of BST with self-evaluation to teach interview skills to typically developing college students. Results showed that as a result of this training, participants acquired the target skills of answering interview questions appropriately, smiling and appropriate posture.…”

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“…Therefore, we cannot make any claims regarding the performance of typically developing students with the same training program components. Future work in this area should compare performance of typically developing young adults with adults with ASD to observe potential differences (Stocco et al, 2017). Although interview skills are important amongst all populations, information on training methods to improve interview responses for adults with ASD is limited.…”

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“…The purpose of this session was to ensure participants completed the study by meeting the criterion for accurate responses to all interview questions according to our operational definitions. We opted to include a BST session given previous research reporting its effectiveness of teaching interview skills to young adults with ASD (Brazeau et al, 2017) as well as typically developing college students (Stocco, Thompson, Hart, & Soriano, 2017). The session included a rationale to describe responses that needed further improvement, specific examples of statements to include and omit from the responses, modeling of accurate responses by the experimenter, an opportunity to rehearse the accurate response, and immediate constructive feedback following each response.…”

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A component analysis of job interview training for young adults with autism spectrum disorder

Rosales

Whitlow

2019

Behavioral Interventions

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The job interview is a vital component to acquire employment. Individuals with autism spectrum disorder may experience difficulties with job interviews due to notable deficits in social and communication skills. We evaluated the relative impact of several components of a job interview training package on six participants' responses to commonly asked interview questions. We used a multiple baseline design across participants to present the following components: written instructions, rehearsal and video selffeedback with a commercially available training program, and verbal feedback delivered by the experimenter. Results demonstrated that all participants required an additional behavioral skills training session to meet our mastery criterion. However, once training was complete, all participants showed generalized performance when the interview questions were presented in a varied format and by a novel interviewer outside of the training environment. In addition, their performance was maintained at follow-up. KEYWORDS autism spectrum disorder, behavioral skills training, InterviewStream©, job interview training

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A component analysis of job interview training for young adults with autism spectrum disorder

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Whitlow

2019

Behavioral Interventions

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“…They help students enter conversations without the expectation that they will receive a job offer or an internship. Stocco, Thompson, Hart, and Soriano (2017) incorporated behavioral skills training (BST)-instruct, model, practice, and provide feedback-in their individualized mock interviews. These personalized training lessons included reflective sessions for students to assess training received and post-interview evaluation.…”

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Advancing Student Interview Skills: Incorporating Virtual Interview Technology into the Basic Communication Course

Hudak

Kile

Grodziak

et al. 2019

ij-sotl

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This study examined the differences between student's self-reported communication interview skills before and after they received interview instructions and experienced virtual simulation interviews in a basic communication course. Incorporating interview instruction and utilizing mock interviewing software, InterviewStream, into several basic communication courses, this study found a significant difference between students' pre-instruction and post-instruction interview self-assessment scores. A Student Assessment of Learning Gains (SALG) revealed that students reported more confidence in their interviewing skills, were more likely to seek help from career services, and pay more attention to non-verbal communication during the interview (dress, posture, and eye contact) after participating in virtual mock interviews.This study examined the differences between student's self-reported communication interview skills before and after they received interview instructions and experienced virtual simulation interviews in a basic communication course. Incorporating interview instruction and utilizing mock interviewing software, InterviewStream, into several basic communication courses, this study found a significant difference between students' pre-instruction and post-instruction interview self-assessment scores. A Student Assessment of Learning Gains (SALG) revealed that students reported more confidence in their interviewing skills, were more likely to seek help from career services, and pay more attention to non-verbal communication during the interview (dress, posture, and eye contact) after participating in virtual mock interviews.

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“…Behavioral skills training (BST) is a training package composed of instructions, modeling, and rehearsal with performance feedback. BST has been used to teach a range of skills to a variety of learners, including safety skills to children and adults (Johnson et al, 2005;Komaki, Heinzmann, & Lawson, 1980;Miltenberger et al, 2004), therapy provision skills to graduate student counselors (Hassan, Thomson, Khan, Burnham Riosa, & Weiss, 2017), interview skills to college students (Stocco, Thompson, Hart, & Soriano, 2017), staff training skills to supervisors (Parsons, Rollyson, & Reid, 2013), behavior management skills to staff working with individuals with disabilities (Belisle, Rowsey, & Dixon, 2016;Sarakoff & Sturmey, 2004), and child management skills to parents (Drifke, Tiger, & Wierzba, 2017;Feldman, Case, Rincover, Towns, & Betel, 1989). Although component analyses of BST have indicated that modeling and/or rehearsal with feedback are the BST components most likely to be correlated with significant improvements in performance (Komaki et al, 1980;Krumhus & Malott, 1980;Shapiro & Kazemi, 2017;Ward-Horner & Sturmey, 2012), there are no studies that have assessed the efficacy of each BST component independent of the effects of instructions.…”

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Behavioral skills training in scent detection research: Interactions between trainer and animal behavior

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Webb²,

Brotheridge³

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J of App Behav Analysis

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Animal trainers working in scent detection programs are responsible for arranging training contingencies as well as for observing and recording animal behavior. We provided behavioral skills training (BST) to animal trainers working with scent detection rats to improve the treatment integrity of scent‐detection research sessions. We evaluated the trainers' behavior at baseline and during the sequential introduction of each component of BST (instructions, modeling, and feedback). We observed incremental improvements in treatment integrity with the introduction of each BST component. Posttraining probes revealed that these improvements were sustained at least 3 weeks post‐BST. As the trainers' behavior was modified during BST, we observed decrements in measures of rat performance. We discuss the nature of these interactions and their implications for the use of BST in scent detection research and in situations in which intervention with one party produces concomitant effects on the behavior of another.

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Improving the interview skills of college students using behavioral skills training

Cited by 37 publications

References 30 publications

A component analysis of job interview training for young adults with autism spectrum disorder

A component analysis of job interview training for young adults with autism spectrum disorder

Advancing Student Interview Skills: Incorporating Virtual Interview Technology into the Basic Communication Course

Behavioral skills training in scent detection research: Interactions between trainer and animal behavior

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