This document provides guidance on conducting interviews. It discusses important elements of interviews such as body language, question types, and appropriate techniques. Sample questions are also provided to help assess interviewing skills and get more in-depth responses from interviewees. Teams must work together to develop interview questions, conduct a videoed interview with a Turkish company, and submit both the original questions and individual comprehension answers in a dossier.

1. Interviewing Skills
Istanbul Bilgi University
Instructor: C.M. Herrington, MAA, MAT
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2. 1. What did you notice most
about the interview? Euronews Interview:
2. How did the interviewer Turks have right to
treat the FM? free movement in
3. How was the interviewer’s EU- Turkish FM
body language?
4. Who spoke more, the http://www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=4yPFMZkUzlk
interviewer of the prime
minister?
5. How did the interviewer
and FM dress?
6. Was the interview formal
or informal?
7. Did the interviewer seem
to know much about the
subject?
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3. Match the question type with the description.
Question Type Description
A. Probing Question 1. Used by interviewers when they expect more
than a yes or no answer.
B. Closed Question 2. Used to get the interviewee to speak more on
a given question.
C. Behavioral Question 3. These questions make assumptions. The idea
of these is to get a specific response from the
interviewee.
D. Leading Question 4. Used by interviewers when the need to know
a specific piece of information(yrs. Of
experience, technical knowledge, etc.). These
question require a brief and solid answer.
E. Open Question 5. Used by interviewers to assess your problem
solving skills and to make sure you do have
enough experience in the field to be able to face
(react) day to day problems.
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4.  How could I modify this proposal to meet
more of your requirements?
 What kind of information do you need in
order to go forward?
 How did you like the movie?
 How are you feeling about all of this?
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5. Appropriate Interviewing Techniques
 How was the interviewer’s body
language?
 What could she have done differently?
 Did the interviewer make good eye
contact? How did she sit/stand?
 How was the interviewer’s delivery?
What should she have done
differently?
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6. Interview Assignment
 Work with your team to create 10 interview questions for the individual
that you will interview in the Turkish company that specialize in the topic
that you have chosen with your group.
 After you have created your questions type them up and turn them in to
you instructor.
 All interviews must be videoed and all members must be present and
active. The group must create a basic summary of the answers given for
the questions asked.
 EACH individual must answer the comprehension questions, Type up their
answers neatly and turn them in along with the original copy of the
questions you personally wrote. Place each persons answers (different
from each other and in your own words) into the team dossier.
 Label this Comprehension Questions.
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