Principles of Interviewing

1. Principles of Interviewing By: Nicole Johnson Collin Nixon Jack Brandjes

2. Interviewing strategies • Planning • Defining your goal • Identify and analyze the other party • Prepare your list of topics

3. Interviewing strategies cont. • Choose the best interview structure • Structured Interview • Unstructured Interview • Moderately Structured Interview • Consider possible questions • Arrange the Setting

4. Conducting the interview Three stages: • Opening or Introductions • Greeting and Building Rapport • Orientation • Motivation 2. Body Responsibilities of the Interviewer Interviewee’s Roles 3. Closing Review and Clarify Results Establish future actions Conclude with pleasantries

5. Types of interviews Information-Gathering Career Research Employment

6. Information-Gathering Interview • View as a Process • Define Interview Goals and Questions • Choose the right Interviewee

7. Career Research Interview • Value of Personal Contacts • Choosing Interviewees • Contacting Perspective Interviewees • Following Up

8. Employment Interview • Pre-Interview Steps • Clean up online identity • Conduct background research • Contact potential employers • Prepare for possible interview formats • Think constructively • Dress appropriately and act professionally • During the Interview • Anticipate key questions • Respond to the employer’s needs and concerns • Be honest • Emphasize the Positive • Back up your answers with evidence • Keep your answers brief • Be enthusiastic • Have your own questions answered • Rehearsing the Interview • Post Interview Follow-up • Interviewing and the Law

9. Ethics of Interviewing • Obligations of the Interviewer • Make only Promises you are willing and able to keep • Keep confindences • Allow the interviewee to make free responses • Treat every interviewee with respect • Obligations of the Interviewee • Don’t misrepresent the facts or your position • Don’t waste the interviewer’s time