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For many people, ’interviewing’ means job-hunting. Indeed for many of us the job or selection interview is probably the most important interview we ever take part in. However, employment is only one of many reasons for participating in an interview. Every business day millions of interviews occur for purposes of giving and receiving instructions, selling ideas or products, appraising performance, handling complaints and grievances or solving problems. Add to that list the number of interviews that occur between doctors and their patients, lawyers and their clients, teachers and their students, police and the public, journalists and the public and so on, and it is easy to see that interviewing and being interviewed are something we are all involved in everyday – talking and listening to people, at home, at work and at leisure.
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© 1996 Nicky Stanton
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Stanton, N. (1996). Interviewing. In: Mastering Communication. Macmillan Master Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14133-3_6
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