The challenge for health care managers is finding, hiring and retaining appropriately qualified and motivated employees. One useful method of gaining information about and insight into a candidate is interviewing, which can be classified as structured, unstructured or semi-structured. The disadvantages of unstructured interviews are reviewed; ways to enhance the psychometric properties of interviews by adding structure are reviewed and summarized; and the possible reasons for underutilization of structured interviews are explored.
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