Communication Skills

You have to be able to communicate well with the interviewee so that they can allow themselves to feel comfortable during the interview otherwise this can have a massive effect on the quality of your interview. Here are a few examples of the skills needed for when preparing and during your interview.

Body language is extremely important as it can make a huge difference during your interviews. A positive body language can encourage your interviewee to feel more relaxed and willing, however a closed and negative body language can allow an interviewee to feel very uncomfortable. When doing an interview, you need to be natural and stay in your own space and not be in your interviewee's because it will distract them to respond well to your questions.

Click on this link below to view an example of this statement
http://youtu.be/VpWo15Jc2JQ

Why is this interview bad?
The cause of why this is a bad interview is because the interviewer didn't pay any attention to grace jones as he was interviewing another person, he focused more on him than grace, this led grace to become angry as she felt that the other person was more important than her. This was also a bad interview because the setting was completely wrong, both interviewee were siting beside the interviewer which meant that he had to turn side to side all the time.

What could the interviewer do differently?
Firtstly, they could have set up the interview space right by putting the chairs in front of him so that the interviewer is able to face both interviewee, also he could have interacted more with both interviewee by asking them about their opinions on the subject.

Click on th interview below to view a great interview.
http://youtu.be/9fIFiLjCB_o

The reason I believe this is a great interview is because at the intro, the interviewer introduced the interviewee by saying she is one of the biggest stars on the planet; that is the one rule you have to do when you are about to interview someone, you have to compliment the person when introducing them and throughout the interview. The interviewer then started talking about the interviewee's tour and career, straight after she allowed the interviewee to have her laughs, then she moved on to her personal life because that is one of the most important thing about the star; she made her laugh a few times, also the audience were laughing alongside her which led the interviewee to feel comfortable to talk about her relationship with her husband, after that conversation, the interviewer went back to the interviewee's album and complimented her on how successful it was, then she finished off the interview by telling the audience that she is about to sing one of her favourite songs, she also complimented the song by saying she thinks it's very beautiful.