| 英文摘要 |
Interviewers serve as the most immediate and influential representatives in the recruitment and selection process, shaping job seekers’ perceptions through their behavior. Based on signaling theory, candidates observe interviewers’ behaviors during the interview to infer the interviewers’ characteristics and, in turn, associate them with organization-related values and messages. This study investigates three key interviewer characteristics– friendliness, professionalism, and information sharing– and their role in communicating employer brand values, including social, interest, development, application, and economic values, which in turn enhance organizational attractiveness. Data were collected through a survey administered to job seekers who participated in either face-to-face or virtual interviews, yielding 201 valid responses. The results indicate that interviewer friendliness enhances candidates’ perceptions of social and interest values; interviewer professionalism fosters perceptions of application and development values; and interviewer information sharing conveys economic value. Furthermore, interest, application, and development values significantly contribute to organizational attractiveness. For first-time job seekers, particularly recent graduates, interviewer friendliness and professionalism more strongly enhance perceptions of interest and application values, thereby increasing organizational attractiveness. Additionally, application value serves as a stronger mediator than development value in linking interviewer professionalism to organizational attractiveness. Supplementary analysis further reveals that interviewers’ information-sharing behaviors can predict candidates’ perceived organizational attractiveness and their subsequent job acceptance one month later. |