I have great faith in the collective wisdom of a selection board
A BBC OFFICIAL
If you have ever emerged from a job-interview feeling crushed and inadequate, tune in to The Right Kind of Chap where the tables are turned on the selectors. As likely as not you will discover that you were turned down not because of your own inadequacy but because of their incompetence. For modern psychological research has shown that most interviews are conducted in such an unsystematic way that they are very unreliable.
MICHAEL ARGYLE, Lecturer in Social Psychology at Oxford, and ELIZABETH SIDNEY , Consultant Psychologist, run training courses in interviewing to help managers make better selections. At one of these courses ANTHONY SCHOOLING made recordings which are dissected In tonight's programme
Produced by Keith Hindell
To be repeated on June 7
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