interview
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Communications
(noun)
A formal meeting in person, for the assessment of a candidate or applicant.
Examples of interview in the following topics:
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Interview Followup
- Content analysis is an essential part of the follow-up to any type of interview.
- If you have interviewed synchronously one or two experts in person, telephone, or video conference, then you will want to listen to the recording of the interview and mark points of interest .
- Personal Interview face to face—Expert , A. (2013, May 2) Personal Interview.
- Personal interview by telephone or chat—Expert, A (2013, May 3) Telephone (chat) Interview.
- Personal interview by email—Expert, A. ( 2013, May 4) Email Interview.
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Interview Preparation
- Prepare for your interview by researching your interview subject and coming up with a list of prepared questions.
- Interviews are usually led and completed by the interviewer based on what the interviewee says.
- Once you've figured out everything you need to know about your interview subject or interviewer, it is time to prepare your questions.
- Alternatively, you can be even more prepared by coming up with a set of questions for your interview subject or interviewer.
- Keep in mind timing and pacing during the interview.
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Interview Conduct
- The main task in interviewing is to understand the meaning of what the interviewees say.
- Interviewer and researcher, Irving Seidman, devotes an entire chapter of his book, Interviewing as Qualitative Research, to the import of proper interviewing technique and interviewer etiquette.
- While an interviewer generally enters each interview with a predetermined, standardized set of questions, it is important that they also ask follow-up questions throughout the process.
- It is instead preferable that interviewers ask open-ended questions.
- Participants should feel comfortable and respected throughout the entire interview—thus interviewers should avoid interrupting participants whenever possible.
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Selecting the right People
- There are two common types of interviews: behavioral and situational.
- In a behavioral interview, the interviewer asks the applicant to reflect on his or her past experiences (Janz, 1982).
- Examples of behavioral interview questions:
- Examples of situational interview questions:
- List the various interview styles used by employers to hire efficiently
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Portfolios for Job Searches
- In all, it turns out, I've interviewed for 42 jobs since completing undergraduate school in 1971.
- Yet job interviews clearly yield mixed results.
- People are not hired so that they can take job interviews 40 hours a week, after all.
- And isn't this exactly what an interview process is meant to accomplish?
- They demonstrate that the applicant has prepared seriously for the interview.
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Keys to Better Job Interviewing
- "I appreciate your making the time to interview me," he declared.
- Our routine for running the interview was unraveling.
- He was interviewing us.
- Daniel's interview flew by.
- Skim some of the countless good books on job interviewing—The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Perfect Interview is one of the best—and adopt some of their ideas.
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Norms and Sanctions
- However, should you show up nude to most interviews, you would likely be stigmatized for your behavior, given that it was such a drastic departure from the norm.
- For example, one cannot merely say that showing up nude to a job interview is a violation of social norms.
- While it is usually social convention to show up in some manner of (usually professional) dress to a job interview, this is most likely not the case for someone interviewing to be a nude model.
- However, should you show up nude to most interviews, you would likely be stigmatized for your behavior, since it would be such a drastic departure from the norm.
- The norm that governs wearing clothing to most job interviews, rather than showing up nude, is a more because its violation results in a more serious degree of social sanction.
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Solicit Information
- Use direct observation of small audiences and use interviews, surveys and Likert rating scales to collect data about larger audiences.
- An interview is a conversation between two people--the interviewer and the interviewee --that involves asking questions to obtain information.
- By asking "probing" questions you can tailor the interview, as it is occurring.
- Lars G Nilsson interviews Thed Björk for Viasat Motor at Anderstorp Raceway in 2012, photo by Daniel Ahlqvist
- Analyze your audience using direct observation, interviews, surveys, or Likert rating scales
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Looking Beyond the Traditional References
- Some good sources to consider include newspaper or magazine articles, interviews, surveys, and even collections of personal essays.
- According to Interviewer and researcher, Irving Seidman, some fundamentals to preparing for an interview include:
- Additionally, it is important that an interviewer ask clarifying questions when they are confused.
- Thus it is preferable that interviewers ask open-ended questions instead.
- Not interrupting: Participants should feel comfortable and respected throughout the entire interview - thus interviewers should avoid interrupting participants whenever possible.
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The Psychology of Recruiting and Selecting Employees
- Interviews are one of the most common ways that individuals are selected.
- In this way, structured interviews provide more reliable results than unstructured interviews.
- As an example, let's look at a job interview for a position as a banker.
- Interviews are one of the most common methods of selection.
- Structured interviews provide more reliable and consistent scoring results than unstructured interviews.