The aim of a job interview is to establish whether you are likely to do well in a particular job in a specific organization. This is not only a matter of having the necessary technical knowledge and skill. You __1__ must also have the motivation, the ability to adapt to new ways of working and a new working environment, and __2__ the personality to do the job and fit into a new team.
But there are other personal skills affect your success __3__ in a job. These include getting on with people, oral or __4__ written communication, team working, problem solving and good time management.
Most people think that interviewers know what they are looking for and will recognize when they see it. __5__ However, people are actually not very good at assessing one and another. This applies to recruiters as much as __6__ anyone else. In fact a former head of selection at one big firm used to say that "some interviewers are so poor they would do better to rely on chances."
In companies which recognize this, various methods are used to try to find the correct person. The most common __7__ is the structured interview. Research has shown that this approach is more reliable than the ordinary job interniew, though not as affective as using tests or __8__ assessment centers. In a structured interview, the interviewer groups the qualities listing in the job __9__ specification under various headings. There are two well-established structures for this: the National Institute of Industrial Psychology's Seven-Point Plan the Five-Fold Grading System. The interviewers score candidates for how well they fit the job specification. __10__