Interview Exercises

This can lead to: lack of concentration, interview lasting longer or be terminated, which can result in unreliable answers. To possibly avoid these I could: go in a quiet room, allow extra time and avoid sensitive questions. I will be doing interviews with teachers that teach visually impaired children rather than the child because the child may feel uncomfortable talking one-to-one with an unknown adult and yet I can still get the answers needed through the

This video recording assignment was extremely interesting. I was nervous as could be. Looking back at the video recording, I can hear myself stuttering and over-thinking what to say. I also repeated myself more than I would have liked to, but I believe that came from nervousness and jitters I was feeling. Once I began the interview, I started to become calm because I was listening to the Amanda’s statements and reflecting or summarizing back to her what I heard she said. I was also nervous about how I would sound and look on the video recording. It is important to sound as if I emphasized with Amanda. I wondered if restating what the client just said would come off condescending or disrespectful. It is so important to me to never come off as if I am in a place of authority because I feel like this type of ambiance would have resulted in Amanda building a wall with me that I would not be able

After assessing my interview, I found that there were a couple of things that I have improved on from my previous interviewing experiences. The first thing is a reduction in my filler words. I

Overall, the interview was accomplished with few complications. There was definitely areas of the interview that need attending to, and there were areas in which I excelled. The dyadic interview started with an opening statement. I attempted to make Person A feel comfortable by asking a simple question of “How are you today?” I believe I made Person A feel as comfortable as possible in front of a camera and build a rapport. I could have asked one or two more easy questions to lighten the mood. I was nervous being in front of a camera especially for an assignment worth a large portion of my grade. When I’m nervous I sometimes bite my lip and unfortunately throughout the interview I chewed my lip. This could have made Person A feel awkward if she took it in uncomfortable way. The listening aspect of the interview I believe I did very well in. I gave attention to what Person A was saying and tried to ask questions that allowed her to elaborate, although there were a few instances that I missed the opportunity. I also tried to write some notes down

I decided to interview our Costa Rican tour guide Victor. Some of the undergraduate students and I got an opportunity to talk to Victor about some of his travels and his life. The following interview questions focus on Victor’s life, his family, and his beliefs.

The video version of the interview was watched four times on it’s own and then additional three times with an aid of the transcript to gain a general understanding of topics, when notes about tone of the voice, pauses and body language were made to aid the understanding. Next transcript was read three times to familiarize with the written version of the

When I first began the interview, I felt like I was skilled in my introduction, but I mistakenly went straight to asking about the issue before talking to Julia about confidentiality. I started over and felt

The nervous did not come from asking the questions, but anticipation on whether they couple would give me a well-rounded enough response to the questions. I have been teaching for 3 years, and it is common for a class not to answer questions when asked them. It felt like it would be more awkward for a couple to just silently sit there after I asked a question or not answer a question fully. The only other interview that I have done were to hire people, not to build a rapport and gather information. In classes I learned that there was an art to interviewing and asking questions in order to get the desired response and make clients feel comfortable. This is something that I learned to be true during this experience, and it is a skill that I will need to practice. The number of times that I had to reword a question or said ‘umm’ took away from the interview and did not help me to feel confident in what I was doing. I was also very nervous about sticking to a time limit and getting all of my questions answered during that time

Worker: I started the conversation by introducing myself and my role. “Hello I’m Mara Arroyo. I ‘m a Social Worker Interim and I’m here to listen and try my best to understand your concerns”

For the interview section of the group project, I decided to interview a twenty-five year old woman who resides in the San Francisco bay area in California. Choosing to have her personal identity remain anonymous, the interviewee has granted us permission to refer to her as the alias Mary. Mary is currently married to a thirty year old man and has one nine year old son. Surprisingly, Mary did not contract the disease by having heterosexual intercourse with her partner like so many other women have gotten HIV. She had obtained the disease through intravenous means. Mary’s husband and son are not HIV positive. Mary has been

The interviewer talked to both individuals evenly. She used many open-ended questions throughout the process and then echoed what she heard to show that she comprehended. She had each person explain their issues and concerns to the other, calmly, and then had the listener echo those issues and concerns to the other.

It was both relieving and reassuring to hear how the students were responding to the interview. This given opportunity for learning has helped me to help them and to also help myself. It felt like a real-life interview where I could potentially be months or years from now, walking through these steps of why and how people explore what exactly makes them capable and confident enough to interview.

Conducting interviews is fundamental as a case manager. In order to understand more about good interviewing, I decided to watch an interview about an addict mother conducted by Dr. Phil. While watching this interview, I made some notes on attitudes and characteristics that I considered important for good interviewing. The characteristics will be presented in the following paragraphs.

The beginning of the interview was acceptable; however, I might have seemed to be inept and inexperienced to him due to my anxiety and excitement. I tried to smile and explained what is happening here. Actually, throughout the interview, he did not want to talk much; rather he preferred

Many people are still struggling on finding the right steps to have a successful interview. Here is one