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• what are the features of an effective interview and interviewer; • how to help prepare for and conduct an interview; • why interviewing is a useful information gathering technique... I

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Using strategies to prepare and conduct an interview

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Has anyone heard or seen someone being interviewed?

What is the point of doing this?

Interviewing techniques

Interviewing techniques

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These strategies help get useful information from a person by conducting an effective interview.

What will I learn?

• what are the features of an effective interview and interviewer;

• how to help prepare for and conduct an interview;

• why interviewing is a useful information gathering technique.

Interviewing techniques

• Think of a person, current or historical,

you would like to know more about

• Imagine you have been invited to meet this person

• What questions would you ask?

Consider this situaton

Interview Casual conversation

Compare interviews and conversatons

What are the similarities and differences between an interview and a conversation?

Compare interviews and conversatons

Listen to an interview and brainstorm qualities of an effective interviewer

Listen to an interview

Think about criteria

• asks engaging questions

• Read the suggested criteria

• Compare the qualities of an effective interviewer you identified

• Determine the best possible criteria for an effective

interviewer

Consider interview tps

• Read the tips

• Highlight new information

• Rank order the five most effective tips.

Examine interview questons

Credits : Dennis Mojado

• Think about the successful interview tips and the questions asked in the previous interviews

• What are the qualities of an effective interview question?

1. What is your favourite sport?

2. Do you think hockey is a great sport?

3. What motivates you as an athlete?

Which question is most effective?

Examine interview questons

Think about queston criteria

Examine questions

Leading Questions (Ineffective) Open-ended Questions (More effective)

Do you get along with your parents?

- hints that maybe they don’t get along

Tell me about your relationship with your parents.

- non-judgmental

How fast was the red car going when it smashed it into the

blue car?

- the red car was at fault

-suggests high speed

How fast was each car going when the accident occurred?

- does not assign any blame or make assumptions

Why did you disappoint your father?

A question may be ineffective because

it is closed or leading or both

Open-ended questions tend to more effective because they encourage conversation and are less leading

Prepare for an interview

Interview a classmate in preparation for writing a profile about this student for the

“Know Your Neighbour” section of the school website

• Create a briefing sheet about yourself to help the interviewer generate questions

• Include personal characteristics, talents or other information you would like to talk

about in your interview

Prepare for an interview

Identfy informaton

• Working in pairs, exchange your briefing sheet with your partner

• Review the briefing sheet and identify important background information

Look at example

• are open ended

• build on interesting background

information

• draw out interesting ideas and

information

• cover a range of relevant topics

Effective interview questions

Tip: Generate many questions for your interview Review and select

the most effective questions for

the interview.

Look at an example

Possible questions

• Why did your family move to Canada?

• What has been the most difficult adjustment to being in Canada?

• What have you like the best?

• What do you like best about our school?

• How did you become a drummer?

• Who is the person you admire most and why?

Conduct the interview

• Interview your partner.

• After the interview discuss how well the interview met the criteria.

Tip: Set a comfortable tone for the interview Remember to thank the interviewee

• has background knowledge

Conduct the interview

Assess the interview

Assessing my ability to “prepare and conduct interviews”

• How well did you prepare and conduct the interview?

• What did you learn about interviews?

• What are the advantages and disadvantages of using interviews to gather information?

Assess the interview

Reflect on the strategy

• How might you use the