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The Effects of Anxiety and Preparation on Performance in Technical Interviews for HBCU Computer Science Majors

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Phillip Hall Jr.,

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SIGMIS-CPR'18: Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGMIS Conference on Computers and People Research

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3209626.3209707

Published: 18 June 2018 Publication History

Abstract

Interview anxiety affects us all and research suggests that it can have a negative impact on interview performance. For that reason, a better understanding of how interview anxiety is affecting underrepresented minorities in computing should be a goal of academic institutions and companies who plan to hire these students. Technical computing interviews often require more than just knowing how to code, and students are not always aware of this. The current study investigates interview anxiety, interview performance among African-American students at Historically Black Institutions and the tools they use to prepare for interviews. Findings suggest that interview performance decreases as interview anxiety increases, supporting past research. Also, results suggest that experience going through interviews have a positive impact on interview anxiety. The major contributions of this work include: further understanding of the research literature for interview anxiety in relation to African American students in computing; incite in how this group of students prepare for interviews.

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The Effects of Anxiety and Preparation on Performance in Technical Interviews for HBCU Computer Science Majors
1. Social and professional topics
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    1. Computing and business
      1. Employment issues
    2. Computing industry
  2. User characteristics
    1. Race and ethnicity

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