The problem of occurs when interviewers make a decision on the job suitability of applicants within the first four or five minutes of the interview and spend the balance of the interview looking for evidence to support it.

b. snap judgments

Explanation:

Sometimes applicants within the first four or five minutes of the interview can actually make a good first impression of their suitability either from their resumes or test scores leading the interviewer to quickly select them as the right candidate only to find at end of the day that the applicant was not actually suitable after trying unsuccessfully to justify their choice. This error of judgment is called snap judgement

Snap judgement

Explanation:

First impression they say matters a lot especially in recruitment where there are a lot of eligible candidates to sieve through. Snap judgement is a scenario in which an interviewer makes a decision on the suitability of an interviewee for a job role during the early stages of an interview and then spend the rest of the interview trying to look for evidence to support his/her position.