The construction of your interview
- Is based on what you want to achieve from the interview
Step 1
Contact an interview and give them a reason for your contact and why you chose them. You can be straight and explain it as being a brief but that might put people off. But explain the reason that they were or are your particular choice?
Step 2
- Who do you talk to?
- How do you want to talk?
Questions
What kind of questions do you want to ask
Introductory question
"can tell me about... " Helps introduce the topic
Follow up question
Can you give me more detail, what did you mean when you said...
Probing question
Can you empty direct questions
Specify questions
such as what happened when you said that or what did he say next?
Direct questions
Indirect questions you can ask these to get the interviews true opinion
Structuring questions
These move the interview on to the next topic
1. Preparation
Start slow, safe and personal
Begin with the question that focuses on the person and not the topic at hand. such as "where did yo grow up" or "what was your first job out of college"
This relaxes the person you're interviewing
2. Coax don't hammer
Your audience is too sophisticated and businesslike for complexities the postmodernist questions, feeling on life after death?
3. Make some questions open-ended
all interview require you t ask specific questions that get answered with narrow data points.
4. Ask what you don't know
as a legal tip that advice you to only ask witnesses question that you already know the answers to.
5. Let them wander, but be careful
Interviewers can try too hard to control the conversation when the person in the other seat is the one who can produce the information wanted.
6. Don't send advance questions
Avoid doing this. Time requires one to send email questions These are often adequate but the result is rarely as good as a face to face candid reaction.
7.Be prepared find the overlooked
quite often a subject's response to one question begs for a follow-up. Many times the follow up reveals more than either the interviewer or interviewee expected.
8. Listen, really listen
The value of an interview comes out of what people say not what you ask
The key is to pay close attention to what is not answered and make on the spot judgements on why that area was skipped or glossed.
What is uninteresting to the subject unimportant painfully embarrassing. Use good judgments.
Consider the tone of voice
9. There are dumb questions
Try not to ask a question that has already answered.
10. Some questions to possibly ask:
- What's the best advice you ever received Who inspires you and why?
- What the hardest lesson you've learned?
- Describe a defining moment in your life
- What is your biggest accomplishment
- Do you have a personal motto?
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