How would your previous coworkers describe you?
Graham Nelson is nurse manager of a dialysis center. Training a new renal dialysis nurse is an expensive process. To reduce turnover among nursing staff, Graham includes peer interviews as part of the overall interview process. Peer interviews can help ensure that potential employees will interact well with existing staff and ensure a cultural fit with the dialysis team. Additionally, an interviewee can gain a better understanding of the day- to-day workflow of the center.
Interview Reliability and Validity Numerous research studies have been performed on the reliability and validity of employment interviews. In general, agreement between two interviews of the same measure by the same in- terviewer (intrarater reliability) is fairly high, agreement between two interviews of the same measure by several interviewers (interrater reliability) is rather low, and the ability to predict job performance (validity) of the typical interview is very low. Research has also shown that: