Chapter 8: The Interview
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The document outlines an assignment for a group project involving interviews with professionals to explore communication issues in specific fields. It provides an agenda for the interview, including tips on question types and interviewee roles. Additionally, it mentions an in-class activity for brainstorming and a blog post due date related to the chosen career path and communication issue.
Chapter 8: The Interview
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- 3. Finally! Your group project Click here
- 4. Part of your group project is to interview a professional about the communication issue your group has identified within that field EXAMPLE FIELD: Accounting COMMUNICATION ISSUE: Accountants communicate with numbers, but when they are relaying that information to businesses and organizations, they need to translate those numbers into words. PROFESSIONAL: Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers INTERVIEW: Read on…
- 5. Interview Agenda First: Determine what you want to find out about the interviewee Develop agenda Three parts Opening Body (Questions) Closing
- 6. Opening Introduce yourself Explain your purpose for interviewing Introduce the communication issue you have identified And don’t forget to dress to impress (in appropriate business attire)
- 7. Body: Types of questions Direct: Explicit. Require specific examples Open: Less direct. Specify only the topic Closed: Provide alternatives and limit your response. Probe for opinions on opposite ends of a spectrum Bipolar: Require yes or no responses Leading: Encourage a specific answer Yes-response: Urges the interviewee to agree Loaded: Elicit emotional response Mirror: Ask interviewee to reflect on what has been said Probes: Used to elicit a more detailed response
- 8. Closing Summarize Discuss next steps Give the interviewee a chance to ask you questions
- 9. Role of the Interviewee Answers questions Asks for clarification Restates question in the answer Actually answers question ( Remember Miss South Carolina? ) Answers one question at a time Turns negative questions into positive answers
- 10. In-Class Activity Meet your group and discuss what career path you want to explore together Discuss communication issues in that career but… Remember our drawing activity. Brainstorm. Let ideas flow. Get to know each other. Have fun first in order to get down to business later. 100-word blog post on the career path and communication issue of choice due at the beginning of Wednesday class One per group Remember requirements for all blog posts (link, title, label, etc.) WEDNESDAY’S class Guest speaker Groups will meet to brainstorm on potential interviewees and come up with questions for their interviews FRIDAY’S class Midterm review CHECK THE BLOG TONIGHT
- 11. COMM107 – 1701 GROUPS
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