Anonymous interviews not enough for unbiased selection of civil servants
By Xiong Bingqi | China Daily | Updated: 2010-02-22 07:13
The city's bureau of human resources and social security recently announced that some related departments will discuss the feasibility of canceling self-introductions in civil servant application interviews. Some experts in the field also suggest replacing a candidate's name with a code.
However, there are still loopholes in the proposed anonymous interviews that can be exploited by cheaters.
Interviews are face-to-face forms of communication. They can rarely be considered completely "anonymous" because personal information is often revealed in the process. Even if interviewees don't state their names, interviewers can easily determine who they are by their appearance, behavior and manner of speech.
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