[IPAC-List] Question about US OPM's STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS: A PRACTICAL GUIDE (2008)

[Lance Seberhagen]

The Introduction of OPM report (p. 3) says:

 

Interviews are typically used for one of two purposes in the Federal Government. First, the interview may be used as part of the formal selection process in which candidates are screened or ranked based on their scores. Second, a “selecting official's interview” may be used to verify candidates’ qualifications for a job after they have been rated using other assessment methods, but prior to making a hiring decision. In a selecting official’s interview, candidates’ responses are typically not scored.

 

The Selecting Official’s Interview is unstructured and more flexible than the Screening Interview because the goal of the Selecting Official is to identify the best qualified candidate from among a small group of finalists who are likely to have relatively equal qualifications.


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Subject: [IPAC-List] Question about US OPM's STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS: A PRACTICAL GUIDE (2008)

 

OPM's guide is here:

 <https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/assessment-and-selection/structured-interviews/guide.pdf> https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/assessment-and-selection/structured-interviews/guide.pdf

 

Page 8 says:

 

<< 4. Developing Rating Scales to Evaluate Candidates << NOTE: This step is not applicable to a selecting official’s interview.

 

My question is, why is this step not applicable to a selecting official’s interview?

 

Thank you.

 

Joel

 

 

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