Assessing the candidate
in the selection interview:
The role of interviewer’s personality Cover Image

Процена кандидата у селекционом интервјуу: улога личности особе која води интервју
Assessing the candidate in the selection interview: The role of interviewer’s personality

Author(s): Sofija Čerović, Ivana B. Petrović
Subject(s): Personality Psychology
Published by: Društvo psihologa Srbije
Keywords: interviewer’s personality; assessment of candidate’s personality; assessment of candidate’s job suitability

Summary/Abstract: The study explores the relative contribution of interviewers’ personality and interviewers’ ratings of candidate’s personality in predicting interviewers’ ratings of candidate’s job suitability and examines the moderating effect of interviewers’ personality on the relationship between ratings of candidate’s personality and job suitability. Results showed that ratings of candidate’s Big Five personality traits were related to ratings of candidate’s job suitability, as well as were interviewers’ Agreeableness and Extraversion. Interviewers’ Openness and Agreeableness had a moderating effect on the relationship between interviewers’ ratings of candidate’s personality traits and ratings of candidate’s job suitability. Results reveal the role that interviewer’s Agreeableness, Extraversion and Openness play in the assessment of candidate in the selection interview.

  • Issue Year: 51/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 91-105
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: English, Serbian