Question

When meeting job applicants, employers often discount the influence of varying situations on applicants' behaviors and presume that what they observe applicants do and say reflects the applicants' enduring personality traits. This most clearly contributes to:A) severity errors.B) the interviewer illusion.C) strengths-based selection systems.D) the experience of flow.E)360-degree feedback

Answer 1

Answer: B) the interviewer illusion

Explanation: the interviewer illusion is a bias an interviewer has of his/her ability to use the interview process to choose the best candidates based on the candidate’s response to their questions as well as the impression the candidates make on them.

It ignores the fact that people behave differently in different situations, and candidates are more likely to be at their best at interviews. There is also no way to prove this thinking wrong, as interviewers usually do not know how the candidates they let go actually perform outside the interview.