An Experimental Interview Program to Attract Students to Our Field.
Each year at the University of Michigan some 500 undergraduates in the fall term and another 300 in the spring enroll, for all sorts of reasons, in the Accounting course. almost none, then, has any thought of professional accounting as a career. Each student meets individually with an interviewer. Some interviewers are accompanied by assistants for at least a half hour, twelve students constitutes the maximum number handled by one interviewer during a full 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. day. Prior to the interview day each interviewer is supplied with a copy of his or her schedule and with a set of the data sheets for his group of students. At the next class meeting the students who had been interviewed are asked to fill out an appraisal questionnaire to provide with some notion of the degree of success of the program. Later a set of the questionnaire replies from his own group is sent to the interviewer. The program is repeated with very little modification during the second semester and a second chance to the students is given who had not participated when offered the opportunity during the first semester. A substantial number takes advantage of this opportunity.
- DOI
- 10.2308/tar-4484110
- Volume
- 45 (1)
- Pages
- 140-143
- Language
- en
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