Job Search Manual

An Interview is a communication between interviewee and interviewer in which a trained interviewer asks questions from respondents to elicit self reports of their opinions, attitudes, values, beliefs or behaviors. Interviews are usually carried out face to face although they can be conducted via telephone, interactive video or compute. The interviewer usually records responses of respondents. Usually this process is carried out in the organization at the time of selecting the candidate.

The questions asked in interview may be of following types:
Open Ended Questions: Usually subjective type questions where respondents can explain their answers and justify them. Example: Describe yourself
Closed Ended Questions: In these types of questions respondents have little or no room for explanation. Questions are mostly multiple choice type questions. Sometimes respondents have to answer in YES or NO choice. Example: Are you the resident of this city?

 Sometimes interviewers make respondents squirm with difficult questions, this mainly happens when the candidates are applying for more stressful jobs. Sometimes interviewers feel that by asking offensive questions they will be able to see the applicants true capabilities and weed out those personalities who wont fit in particular environment.

Types of Interview:

Informal Interview: These are interviews in which all informal questions are asked except few job related questions. These interviews are non-structured.
Formal Interview: These are types of interviews which held in standard place like employment office or organization premises and questions are asked by panel of interviewers and questions are structured.
Planned Interview: These are formal interviews in which questions to be asked, time per candidate, modus of operandi are all worked out beforehand.
Patterned Interview: Planned interview with high accuracy and patterned with sequence.
Depth Interview: These interviewers are conducted when candidate is found to be good and interviewers desires to ask more questions from him.
Stress Interview: Such interviews are conducted when job is very stressful and interview is conducted in stressful conditions to accurately judge the candidate performance and his suitability to the job.
Group Interview: Are conducted to measure the social and tam interaction capabilities of the candidate.
Panel Interview: The Interview in which a panel of interviewers sit to judge the capabilities candidate in different grounds by different questions to him from different fields.