6 Interview Techniques
- 1. Interview techniques Asking the right questions
- 2. The main points Ask open-ended questions Listen to answers and asks reaching questions Redirect questions Emphasis certain words for effect
- 3. Ask open-ended questions These are questions that DO NOT elicit yes/no answers A TV interview where the interviewer spends 30 seconds asking aquestion only to receive a ‘yes’ is REALLY annoying!
- 4. Open Questions Good: Tell me, why did you depose the King? Bad: Did you depose the king? Good: What will you do when the English troops arrive? Bad: The English troops are coming, are you scared?
- 5. Listen and delve deeper A good interviewer LISTENS to the answers. They use guiding question, but in reality the interview is just conversation that will cover certain points. A BAD interviewer doesn’t listen and simply asks the question on his list – he misses vital information and the chance to find out more from his subject.
- 6. Listen to answers GOOD: Answer: … so I’m not concerned at the English presence, I’ll win easily. Question: Easily? How exactly? BAD: Answer: … so I’m not concerned at the English presence, I’ll win easily. Question: That’s nice, So tell me, why did you Kill Macduff’s family?
- 7. Redirect questions Redirecting is really just an example of listening and asking deeper questions, but a redirect will usually have come counter to the former answer. Complex I know
- 8. Redirects GOOD: Answer: … so I’m not concerned at the English presence, I’ll win easily. Question: Easily? How exactly? Answer: I’ll ….. Redirect: And if that does not happen, what will you do then? Answer: Well I’ll be dead, so I suppose I’ll start to smell and decompose slowly.
- 9. Emphasise certain words For effect, in TV land you need to place particular emphasis on certain words in a question. Tell me, why did you depose the King? Tell me , why you depose the King? Tell me, why did you depose the King? Tell me, why did you depose the King? Tell me, why did you depose the King?