A good interviewer is an effective listener!
The Importance of Listening
A good interviewer is an effective listener! One can obtain more accurate and complete information through simple listening. Getting in the habit of allowing the candidate to complete his or her entire answer without injecting the next question is critical.
Police interrogators have long studied how to formulate questions for the purpose of eliciting accurate responses. For instance, how suggestive a question may be can definitely influence a person’s responses. Most often, police have found that witnesses who are asked to describe an event in their own words provide their best understanding, and their thinking is not shaped by a complex question presented by an interviewer. In other words, if you as an interviewer first listen to a full story by a candidate and then follow it up by specific passive questions triggered by careful listening, you should get the most accurate and complete information from the candidate.
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