Qualities needed for to be a successful interviewer.

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What are the qualities required to be a successful interviewer?

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Effectiveness of any interview depends upon several personal qualities of the interviewer. A good interviewer must have abilities to evaluate specific as well as overall abilities to evaluate specific as well as overall abilities of the applicant and this is rather a difficult job as ability to evaluate specific traits may differ from the ability to make overall evaluation. According to P. K. Ghosh and M.B. Ghorpade, a successful interviewer should have the

(1) He should usually be an elderly person (say about 40 or 45), more mature in out look on life, slightly or moderately egoistical and not too much extrovert.

(2) He must be socially detached which makes it possible for him to make more accurate judgment of others.

(3) He should have slightly more than average intelligence emotional maturity, interest in human beings and their behaviour, sportsmanship and well adjusted life.

(4) He should have extensive acquaintance with people similar in age and occupation to those whom he interviews.

(5) He should be a man with a genuine feeling of warmth and affection so that he is able to establish rapport quickly with any individual, however, nervous he may be.

(6) He should be a man who has been fully trained in the art of interview and who knows what are the special weaknesses of this method and how to avoid them; and also the person who is focused on continually refining his method and asking questions in the light of experience.

(7) He should be well-informed and up-to-date where legislation on employment is concerned.

(8) He should be receptive and sensitive to the way his behaviour affects others.