[Study of structured selection interviews at a Japanese corporation]

In the job hiring process where long-term employment is expected, it is considered vital for the employer to form a mutually trusting relationship with applicants throughout the selection process. In this study, we attempted to develop a structured interview for new graduate hiring at a Japanese corporation, where lifelong employment was assumed. The result was an interview with relatively little structure, so that the interviewer and interviewee could talk more naturally and more deeply. The rate of employee turnover for the year for those who went through the structured interview process was zero, demonstrating validity of the selection process. On the other hand, we found unevenness in the correlations between job performance evaluations during On the Job Training (OJT) and those during the interview, indicating need for further research with longer frame of time for employee evaluations.