If Recency Is Operating Within a Selection Interview, the Job

question 64

Multiple Choice

If recency is operating within a selection interview, the job candidate would be well advised to

• A)see the interviewer late in the day.
• B)hold off revealing some good qualities until the end of the interview.
• C)try to be the last applicant interviewed.
• D)list his or her most recent jobs first on his or her resume.
• E)ask for a different interviewer.

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