Title: Interviewing peers: a cross-curriculum project with HR and communications students

Authors: Mark A. Grimes; Amber DeBaise

Addresses: College of Business and Computing, Georgia Southwestern State University, 800 Georgia Southwestern State University Drive, Americus, GA 31709, USA ' College of Business and Computing, Georgia Southwestern State University, 800 Georgia Southwestern State University Drive, Americus, GA 31709, USA

Abstract: Research is beginning to show that students obtain more out of a class when it includes practical hands-on projects that simulate real-world experiences, either through service learning or through other forms of experiential learning which take book concepts and compel the students to perform the learning in a simulation. This article was based on an experiential learning project in one School of Business Administration that had students from one HR course design jobs and then conduct hiring interviews for those jobs with students from another communications course, and reviews the procedure and findings when the project was replicated over seven semesters. Following each interview, the interviewees provided feedback on the process and on the interviewers. At the conclusion of the semester, participants in the HR class provided feedback on the experience through standard course evaluations.

Keywords: interviewing; college projects; staffing; communications; experiential learning; cross-curriculum; real-world projects; human resources.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHRDM.2021.120306

International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management, 2021 Vol.21 No.4, pp.288 - 300

Received: 22 Nov 2019
Accepted: 05 Sep 2020
Published online: 14 Jan 2022 *

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