Advantages and disadvantages of structured interview

Structured interview is an interview method, and its advantages and disadvantages are as follows:

Advantages:

1. Fairness: By formulating a set of standardized questions and scoring standards, structured interviews ensure that each interviewer evaluates under the same conditions, reduce the interference of subjective factors, and improve fairness and objectivity.

2. Consistency: Structured interviews ensure that each interviewer faces the same problems, and the interviewers also use the same scoring standards when evaluating, so they can provide consistent evaluation results.

3. Predictability: Through well-designed questions and grading standards, structured interviews can better predict the interviewer's performance in the actual work, thus providing more accurate hiring decision basis.

4. Systematization: Structured interview has a clear interview process and standardized scoring method, which makes the whole recruitment process more systematic and organized and reduces confusion and uncertainty.

Disadvantages:

1. Stiffness: Structured interview requires the interviewer to conduct the interview according to predetermined questions and grading standards, and sometimes it may not be flexible enough when dealing with specific situations or discussing a certain issue in depth.

2. Restrict the interviewer's play: The interviewer's role in structured interviews is mainly to ask questions and grade, and relatively few degrees of freedom may limit the interviewer's play and flexibility.

3. Unable to comprehensively evaluate: Because the structured interview focuses on specific questions and standardized scores, it may not be possible to comprehensively evaluate all the skills and qualities of the interviewer, covering all the potential strengths or weaknesses of the interviewer.

4. Not applicable to certain positions: Structured interviews are mainly applicable to positions that require quantitative evaluation and comparison, but may not be applicable to some special positions or situations that require more subjective judgment.

To sum up, structured interview has the advantages of fairness, consistency, predictability and systematicness, but there are also some shortcomings, such as rigidity, which limits the interviewer's play, can not be comprehensively evaluated, and is not suitable for some positions. When choosing interview methods, we should comprehensively consider the specific situation and recruitment objectives, and adopt a combination of various interview methods to obtain more comprehensive and accurate evaluation results.