Walkin interviews and their Effectiveness

[Md. Anikuzzaman]

Off late there are a few Walk in interviews going  on in the city.  For the past two days,  I was thinking how effective it would be.  This post is about comparing the Normal interview process and the walk-interview process and talk about their effectiveness

Normal Interview process

Candidate gets to know about a job opening in the company through his friends working in that company / news paper ad/ job sites etc.
Candidate sends his resume to the HR.
HR sends the resume to the interviewer/panel for first round for screening.
Interviewer/panel either rejects  or asks the HR to schedule the interview with the candidate
Interview is conducted
Effectiveness

Everything is planned.
Interviewer goes through the resume before going for the interview
Weed out the unfit resume before calling the candidate for interview
Better chances of getting good candidates
HR sees to that an interviewer is not overloaded with too many interviews in a day.  This is very important because the state of the Interviewer's mind is very important during the interview.
Walkin Interview process

Candidates gets to know about the job opening through news paper ads / chain mails generally of type – Walk-in with your resume and walk out with a job
Candidates come with their copies of resumes to the company.
The company collects the resume and asks the candidate to wait.  I have heard of instances of  candidate waiting for 4-5 hours.
Interviewer gets to see the candidate's resume for the first time.  He would have been advised not to spend more time with the candidate. So, the interviewers in walk in interview have a general set  of questions to be asked. They ask the questions from their list, if the candidate fails to answer one / two from their standard questions, they candidate  is rejected.
The time taken for the interview would range for 10 mins to 20 mins.
Effectiveness

Many a  times interviewer doesn't have time to go through the interview
After a couple of interviews, the interviewer either gets tired
Resumes are not screened / most of the time doesn't get read.
Experienced and skilled candidates don't turn up for the walk in interviews
You get to see a lot of people turning out for this interview , but the hit ratio would normally be low
Interviewer is overloaded.
There is another kind of interview – Job fairs.  They are good to get the entry level graduates but not the experienced.

Source: https://azagappan.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/walkin-interviews-and-their-effectiveness/