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Lecture 2 INTERVIEWING SKILLS

The document discusses interviewing skills and types of questions that can be used in interviews, including open-ended questions, close-ended questions, probing questions, and how to avoid loaded, biased, and leading questions. It provides recommendations on using a combination of open-ended and more specific questions to get a full picture while clarifying important details.

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Lecture 2 INTERVIEWING SKILLS

The document discusses interviewing skills and types of questions that can be used in interviews, including open-ended questions, close-ended questions, probing questions, and how to avoid loaded, biased, and leading questions. It provides recommendations on using a combination of open-ended and more specific questions to get a full picture while clarifying important details.

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INTERVIEWING SKILLS

Lecture by: Aditi Gandotra


QUESTIONS
• Different types of questions are used during the interview.

• The questions you select will greatly influence the direction of the interview.

• One may need to ask a question in more than one way in order to elicit the
information of interest.
Open ended questions
• Are useful when the purpose of the interview is exploratory

• Can motivate the interviewee for free association.

• The disadvantage is that they are liable to a larger proportion of irrelevant


information.

• Useful in understanding the chronological order of events, and assessing the


insight of the client.
Close - Ended questions

• More readily used when the objectives of the interview are known.

• Useful for more reluctant respondents (whether for reasons of motivation or


language), or for those giving information not particularly important to them.

• Usually preceded by open questions which provide a sense of the context in which
the questions are being asked.
Recommendation
• Use broad, open-ended when you begin your dialogue.

• These are the least suggestive (leading).

• Move from open to more specific (close-ended) when necessary.

• A combination of both is required to get the bigger picture as well as clarification


of important details.
Probing questions
• A probing question is a question that follows up on the answers to previous
questions.

• These can be used to clarify or search for reasons behind previous answers.

• Search for inconsistencies.

• Help the respondent deal with a topic that has been difficult to speak about.
Types of Probing
Questions
Motivating Questions
• There are a few factors that influence a respondent’s motivation
to respond.
• Threatening the respondent’s ego will decrease their
motivation.
• In contrast, making respondents feel better good or
recognizing the importance of their response will increase
motivation.
• It is therefore important to choose words that do not prejudice
or do not imply anything unintended.
Loaded Questions

A question is loaded when it is phrased in such a way that it evokes a different


response from what was intended from the question.
Biased Questions
• Biased questions are questions that when asked will be likely to elicit a skewed answer.
• These questions should be avoided as they may lead to biased and/or hostile responses.
• It is the interviewer’s responsibility to avoid bias.

An example of a biased question is the following (it is also a leading question):


“You don’t…, do you?”
“You don’t support gay marriage…., do you?”
“You know smoking causes cancer, don’t you?”

These questions suggest there is a ‘correct’ response, which most people would endorse.
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