Interview skills are an essential tool for all students in today's world of employment as there is increasing competition for job vacancies.
This is largely due to the rise in graduation rates, consequently there are far more candidates applying for the same jobs.
6. Merits / Benefits / Advantages of interviews:
1.Personal interaction: Oral interview (viva-voice) gives an opportunity for personal interaction
between interviewer and interviewee. Personal touch builds a relationship is the most
significant advantage of interviews.
2. Justify subjective aspects: The interview help to evaluate or justify subjective aspects of the
interviewee. As a result, changes if necessary, and be recommended.
3. Reduce grievance: Interview helps to reduce grievance (complaints) through counselling and
therefore the aggrieved person can get satisfaction.
4. Get motivated: Interview can make the interviewee be initiative and get motivated to work
with honesty.
5. Congenial working environment: Interview if successful can bring a congenial (pleasant)
working environment. This will lead to effective communication.
7. Merits / Benefits / Advantages of interviews:
6. Better Communication: Facial expressions and gestures help to communicate in a
better way because the interview is face to face.
7. Encourage the audience instantly: Interview widely used in case of a public meeting
or discussion. It can encourage or motivate the audience instantly.
8. Less preparation and involves quickness: It involves less preparation for
transmitting any message and therefore it involves quickness.
9. Informal communication: It provides the opportunity for informal communication
and helps to grow trusted relationships.
10. No cost communication: Interview is a no-cost communication because there is no
involvement of instruments or accessories. Only physical appearance or presence
is sufficient to be involved in such a conversation.
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9. Limitations / Disadvantages of Interview:
Although interview have various advantages it also faces the following limitations:
1. Difficult to practice in large-sized Organizations: Interview extremely difficult to practice in modern
large-sized organizations, particularly if various units or departments are situated at different
places.
2. No effective in large gatherings: It is very difficult to get a message across to large gatherings. Even
though the speaker is addressing them face to face.
3. Ineffective if the listener in not attentive (active): The interview is closely linked with the listener’s
attentiveness (activeness). Since human beings can listen to and catch messages faster than the
speed at which they are delivered, they will easily get deviated if listeners are inattentive.
4. Raise barriers to communication: Oral interview involves personal touch i.e. mode, attitude, or
perception which influences the interview in a very strong way. This can raise barriers to
communication.
5. Subjective aspects: An oral interview is based on an evaluation of subjective aspects which can lead
to brassiness. (unwanted issues)
6. Time-consuming: Interview whether oral or written is time-consuming.
