Here's an overview of the key components:

Input Variables:

Interviewee characteristics: These include the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and personality features.

Interviewer traits: This refers to the interviewer's traits, such as experience, training, and personal prejudices.

Perceptual and Encoding Processes:

Perception: Interviewers interpret and perceive material in different ways due to their own biases and prejudices.

Encoding: It is the process of transforming seen information into a format that can be cognitively stored and processed.

Decision Rules:

Implicit Decision Rules: Unconscious rules and biases that influence the interviewer's judgments.

Explicit Decision Rules: Formal criteria and guidelines are used consciously by the interviewer.

Decision Processes:

Cognitive Processes: The mental activity associated with information processing, such as attention, memory, and problem$-$solving.

Heuristics: These are mental shortcuts or rules of thumb that interviewers may employ to make decision$-$making easier.

Decision Outcomes:

Decision Quality: The accuracy and effectiveness of the interviewer's final decision.

Decision Acceptance: The extent to which the decision is perceived as fair and just.

Feedback Loop:

Outcome Feedback: Information regarding the decision's implications that can impact future decision$-$making processes.

Self$-$Feedback: The interviewer's own reflection and appraisal of their own performance, which may lead to changes in future interviews.

Contextual Variables:

Organizational Factors: External factors such as company policies, culture, and the overall work