ABSTRACT
IT seems that every few years a paper is presented at an International Communication Association convention, or an article is published in a journal, reviewing the employment interviewing literature and calling for more communication-oriented research on the interview. For example, Daly (1978, p. 1) suggests in his review of the literature that one of his goals is “to propose that scholars claiming interest in applied or organizational communication pay more attention to the interview as a topic of research.” More recently, Goodall and Goodall (1982, p. 21), in a “selective” review of the literature, conclude by observing that “while there is a virtual abundance of research and opinion about employment interviewing to be found in a variety of professional technical journals, trade magazines, and popular books and magazines, very little research has been done by speech communication scholars.”
