A Conductor of Interviews

Hey,

So when I read the question about whether or not I have success in conducting interviews, I cannot say that I have effectively been able to integrate such research into any speech or project. Even though I firmly believe that interviews provide the deepest, and strongest information one can obtain for anything that requires research. In all honesty, I've only interviewed reliable professionals only twice in my life for a school project, and one of them was actually semi-recently during my class, "Creating a Meaningful Life."

As far as conducting the interview went for that one, it went fairly well. For my class, we had to interview someone who inspired us to do what we do in life, whether t be a person from the same educational field, or simply someone who has inspired you to live on to the next day. So I had my parents look for someone who was either a Psychology major or worker, and they ended up finding a Human Resources manager who had a degree in psychology.

The interview process was fast, yet effective. We had planned a date ahead of time due to our busy schedules, and one weekend we met and had an interesting talk. What went well was the fact that I was able to even find a successful person to interview. What could have been improved would have been a bigger variety of questions to acquire a wide set of knowledge and information to cover all bases. I think if one were to arrive with papers of questions, they could at least hand select a few at the moment to suit the situation.

What do I advise for other interviews? Prepare 100% ahead of time, with a set full list of questions, outline of how the interview should go, a set time and schedule for the actual interview and be aware that depending on the person, the answers may vary. Learning from mistakes, I think that a 30 minute interview is kind of long if questions are redundant, so try a variety of questions to refrain from being bored!