| Creators: |
Basch, Johannes M. and Melchers, Klaus G. |
| Title: |
The method of choice – suddenly? The impact of the corona pandemic on perceptions of technology-mediated interviews |
| Item Type: |
Conference or Workshop Item |
| Event Title: |
(Abstractband des) 52. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie "view on | of science" |
| Event Location: |
Hildesheim, Germany |
| Event Dates: |
10.-15. September 2022 |
| Page Range: |
p. 124 |
| Date: |
2022 |
| Divisions: |
Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
| Abstract (ENG): |
Recent research found that applicants react more skeptically
to technology-mediated interviews (e.g., via videoconference, asynchronous video interview [AVI], etc.) than to face-toface-interviews. Among others, a lack of experience with these interviews was identified as one possible factor influencing this difference. In addition to the ongoing digitization, however, the Corona pandemic in particular has recently contributed to the fact that technology-mediated interviews are used more frequently as a substitute for or supplement to face-to-face-interviews and that more
applicants have gained experience with these interviews.
Accordingly, the questions are whether the Corona pandemic
has a) fundamentally affected the perception of technologymediated interviews and b) whether applicant reactions are also more positive when the benefits of technology-mediated interviews are made salient in light of the pandemic conditions. These questions were examined in two studies.
Study 1 (N = 258) compared current data on applicant
reactions to face-to-face-interviews, videoconference
interviews, and AVIs with comparative data from a time prior
to the pandemic and found that technology-mediated
interviews were still perceived less favorably than face-toface-interviews, but that the acceptance of videoconference interviews improved significantly over time. Study 2 (N = 143) examined the influence of the pandemic situation in a vignette study and found that differences between interview media became smaller when the challenges of the pandemic were more salient. The above studies make an important contribution to better understanding the experience with technology-mediated interviews and the influence of the pandemic as possible causes for differences in the perception between traditional and technology-mediated interviews. |
| Forthcoming: |
No |
| Language: |
English |
| Citation: |
Basch, Johannes M. and Melchers, Klaus G.
(2022)
The method of choice – suddenly? The impact of the corona pandemic on perceptions of technology-mediated interviews.
In: (Abstractband des) 52. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie "view on | of science", 10.-15. September 2022, Hildesheim, Germany, p. 124.
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