Improving Interview Skills in College Students Using Behavioral Skills and In Situ Training

<p>Successful interviewing skills help maximize the probability that a job candidate will make a positive impression upon a prospective employer. An area of continued concern related to potential employee readiness involves performance in interviews. Questions remain regarding the effectiveness of higher educational systems to develop the variety of efficient skills necessary for students to showcase the full array of their qualifications within an interview. Behavioral Skills Training (BST) is a behavior analytic training package that has been shown to increase appropriate interview skills. In situ training (IST), also known as in-the-moment-training, has been offered as a method to improve the effectiveness of BST. The purpose of the present study aimed to extend the results of Stocco, Thompson, Hart, and Soriano (2017) in using BST to improve interview skills of college students by adding in situ training as an additional training component. Across all participant there was an improvement in interview skills. More specifically, BST with IST showed greater acquisition, maintenance, and generalization compared to BST only.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MS)

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Year dc:date.available

2018

Author dc:creator

• Barker, Laura-Katherine

Contributors dc:contributor

• Joe Olmi
• James Moore
• Kyle Rowsey

• Applied Behavior Analysis
• Interviewing
• Psychology
• feedback
• behavioral skills training
• in situ training

Repository record dc:identifier

https://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/363

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:aquila.usm.edu:masters_theses-1400