INTERVIEW TECHNIQUES

 WHAT IS INTERVIEW?

An interview is a conversation where questions are asked and answers are given.In common parlance, the word "interview" refers to a one-on-one conversation with one person acting in the role of the interviewer and the other in the role of the interviewee. The interviewer asks questions, the interviewee responds, with participants taking turns talking. Interviews usually involve a transfer of information from interviewee to interviewer, which is usually the primary purpose of the interview, although information transfers can happen in both directions simultaneously. One can contrast an interview which involves bi-directional communication with a one-way flow of information, such as a speech or oration. (source: wikipedia)

When you are doing an interview, there are several techniques that you must do if you want your interview going well and you will get information and a good result from the interview session. 

1. Find a good location

Find a place where you can focus on your interview and won’t get distracted by your surroundings, but it is better if you can interview people in a place that has some relevance to the story or your subject. You will get more and deep information and also mostly people are more comfortable when they are in a familiar place

2. Prepare your goals ahead of time

When you are about to interview people, you have to prepare your questions related to the subject that you are going to ask. You should already know what your interview and report to look like and what information you need from this interview to get the result you want.

3. Write down your questions

Be sure and bring prepared questions with you. You can not just rely on your memory or just come up with a sudden questions because your questions have to be relate to your main subject, that’s why you have to prepare the questions on a piece of paper. And also, write down a back up questions because you don’t know what question will give you information about the subject.

4. Work on your flow

This is the most challenging but also the most important skill you can develop. When you are interviewing someone, you have to make the inetrview flow but at the same time make it like conversation, but it has to be natural. That will make them more comfortable while doing the interview. That is the most important to make the people you’re going to interview comfortable during the interview. 

5. Bring a friend

I think bringing your friend to an interview is important too, so they can help you with something like take notes. your friend can also help you recording to the interview while you are focusing on interviewing the people, or if you need the video of the interview your friend can hel you to record the video of the interview for you.

 6. Be a little sneaky

After the interview session, you can continue taking notes of the interview that you did because sometimes the people is more comfortable when they feel like they are done being recorded, they will give you more information and more important.

7. Empower your subject

If you can’t fully understand to the perspective of your interview, you can ask “what is your ideal solution?” to your source. This can help to clerify a person’s point of view or opinion, but this way only works in certain circumastances.

8. Endure awkward silences

When you’re asking or deling with a sensitive subject, you need to keep quite and listen to your source’s answer. Let them answer and give their opinion and do not cut off their answer because it will disturb their focus on answering your question.

  

9. Tell them what you need

If you want to make your interwiew well untill the end, tell them your goals what you need from this interview because sometime people won’t participate in an interview unless they know what the purpose of the interview and what are you going to do with that interview. 

sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interview

https://matadornetwork.com/bnt/13-simple-journalist-techniques-for-effective-interviews/