Eight Greatest Ideas for Successful Interviews
Idea 82: Four characteristics of interviews
There is more wisdom in listening than speaking.
Sudanese proverb
We can define an interview as a meeting, usually between two people, arranged with a clear purpose and with the roles of the participants well defined. The word itself comes from the French verb s’entrevoir, meaning ‘to see each other’.
Interviews range from a meeting or conversation between a journalist or radio or television presenter and a person whose views are sought for publication or broadcasting, through oral examinations of candidates for a job or place in higher education, to an interrogation of a person by the police about a specific event, sometimes euphemistically known as ‘helping ...
