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    What is interview? Types of interviews

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    Meaning of interview:

    The word interview comes from Latin and middle French words meaning to “see between’ or “see each other”. Generally, an interview means a private meeting between people when questions are asked and answered. The person who answers the questions of an interview is called in the interviewer. The person who asks the questions of our interview is called an interviewer. It suggests a meeting between two persons for the purpose of getting a view of each other or for knowing each other. When we normally think of an interview, we think a setting in which an employer tries to size up an applicant for a job.

    According to Gary Dessler, “An interview is a procedure designed to obtain information from a person’s oral response to oral inquiries.”

    According to Thill and Bovee, “An interview is any planed conversation with a specific purpose involving two or more people”.

    According to Dr. S. M. Amunuzzaman, “Interview is a very systematic method by which a person enters deeply into the life of even a stranger and can bring out needed information and data for the research purpose.”

    So, an interview is formal meetings between two people (the interviewer and the interviewee) where questions are asked by the interviewer to obtain information, qualities, attitudes, wishes etc. Form the interviewee.

    What is interview

    Types of interviews

    There are many types of interviews that an organization can arrange. It depends on the objectives of taking the interview. Some important types of interviews are stated below:

    1. Personal interviews: Personal interviews include:
      • Selection of the employees
      • Promotion of the employees
      • Retirement and resignation of the employeesOf course, this type of interview is designed to obtain information through discussion and observation about how well the interviewer will perform on the job.

       

    2. Evaluation interviews: The interviews which take place annually to review the progress of the interviewee are called the evaluation interviews. Naturally, it is occurring between superiors and subordinates. The main objective of this interview is to find out the strengths and weaknesses of the employees.
    3. Persuasive interviews: This type of interview is designed to sell someone a product or an idea. When a sales representative talk with a target buyer, persuasion takes the form of convincing the target that the product or idea meets a need.
    4. Structured interviews: Structured interviews tend to follow formal procedures; the interviewer follows a predetermined agenda or questions.
    5. Unstructured interviews: When the interview does not follow the formal rules or procedures. It is called an unstructured interview. The discussion will probably be free-flowing and may shift rapidly form on subject to another depending on the interests of the interviewee and the interviewer.
    6. Counseling interviews: This may be held to find out what has been troubling the workers and why someone has not been working.
    7. Disciplinary interviews: Disciplinary interviews are occurring when an employee has been accused of breaching the organization’s rules and procedures.
    8. Stress interviews: It is designed to place the interviewee in a stress situation in order to observe the interviewee’s reaction.
    9. Public interviews: These include political parties’ radio-television and newspaper.
    10. Informal or conversational interview: In the conversational interview, no predetermined questions are asked, in order to remain as open and adaptable a possible to the interviewee’s nature and priorities; during the interview the interviewer “goes with the flow”.
    11. General interview guide approach: The guide approach is intended to ensure that the same general areas of information are collected from each interviewee this provides more focus than the conversational approach but still allows a degree of freedom and adaptability in getting the information from the interviewee.
    12. Standardized or open-ended interview: Here the same open-ended questions are asked to all interviewees; this approach facilitates faster interviews that can be more easily analyzed and compared.
    13. Closed or fixed-response interview: It is an interview where all interviewers ask the same questions and asked to choose answers from among the same set of alternatives. This format is useful for those not practiced in interviewing.
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    24 Comments

    1. DINESH on May 19, 2015 9:37 pm

      The explanation for interviewer and interviewee is given wrong. Kindly rectify

      Thanks

      Reply
    2. SKECHER on January 16, 2016 11:09 pm

      Yes its true, the explanation for interviewer and interviewee is
      given wrong. Thanks much

      Reply
    3. Shiva Kumar thapa on March 3, 2016 9:16 pm

      Yes very impressive,,,, those points helpful every person who is take interview and give interview.

      Reply
    4. shini on March 12, 2016 3:13 pm

      These are very useful for us when we are attending interview

      Reply
    5. sonali kuril on September 24, 2016 9:38 pm

      These is very useful for us because somebody has don’t know type of interview and her or his impression are focus bad impression on that situation. Thank u..

      Reply
    6. Ajeet K Jha on December 9, 2016 2:15 pm

      Just a single word mistake. Very first interviewer should be changed to interviwee. Thanks…

      Reply
    7. Nnuaim on December 20, 2016 12:59 pm

      Its easy to understand

      Reply
      • Dinara on May 29, 2019 11:08 pm

        These are very user friendly datas

        Reply
    8. Eugene on December 31, 2016 12:45 am

      This is a relevant skill to be acquired as people are now struggling with interview presentation

      Reply
    9. Ibrahim kagawa on April 10, 2017 1:42 am

      Nice answer

      Reply
    10. Agia Godwin on April 19, 2017 6:26 pm

      The inception of the explaination of interviewer and interviewee is wrong, thank you

      Reply
    11. Bwambogo Fred on September 4, 2017 1:14 pm

      This has really helped me to acquire the best knolege about the meaning of the word interview.
      Thank you very much.

      Reply
    12. divyshivam on October 3, 2017 4:41 pm

      thanks

      Reply
    13. Christina Nepstad on November 16, 2017 5:11 am

      Although I appreciate aspects of the traditional definition of an interview, it is “old thinking.” Today, the new thinking on this topic reveals a definition that is far more profound. It provides the evidence one needs to become definitive and liberated in their preparation.

      Reply
    14. batul shabbir on March 24, 2018 5:56 pm

      Good pack of information, just re correct your single mistake of writing interviewer
      instead of interviewee!

      Reply
    15. Aly Sidibé on April 14, 2018 11:36 pm

      I’ve a problem about “interviewer” and “interviewee”. Thank you!

      Reply
    16. Adarsh on April 15, 2018 4:19 pm

      Thankyou for such a detailed description .

      Reply
    17. Sir James on July 20, 2018 9:19 am

      the information given about the various types of interviews is relevant to what l responded yesterweek during my interviewing session. Keep up and l wound like to join you after my second degree,will you accept my request, please?

      Reply
    18. Sir James on July 20, 2018 9:25 am

      I say lots of thanks for your help me raise my Literature level,, am an upcoming star 🌟 of English..

      Reply
      • Sir James on July 20, 2018 9:27 am

        a rectify to my comment: for helping me raise my Literature level.

        Reply
    19. isaya lugasi on October 29, 2018 9:10 pm

      thanks for your helps

      Reply
    20. saravanan on February 12, 2019 2:11 pm

      This information was excellent.

      Reply
    21. Yakubu ummaru on July 3, 2019 3:38 am

      Thanks u very much for ur explanation,becouse it will help so many students to be so understood the definition of”interview”in a simple language.Even me im included.thank u

      Reply
    22. anvy andrew on January 31, 2022 1:45 pm

      really nice blog, and when I read this blog I can feel what you mean in it,thanks for this blog

      Reply
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