Interviewing the Interviewer, Report (Individual)
Friday, 6 pm 30%Write a report of between 1,400 and 1,800 words about your interview. You should use complete sentences, complete paragraphs, a few quotations from the interviewer and some reported speech.Here is the recommended outline for your report:Introduction. Include a fictitious name for your interviewer (see Helpful Hints below), his/her job title and the type of organisation or company that he/she works for. Explain briefly what you wanted to find out from the interview and why you selected this person. Include when and where the interview took place and how long it lasted.Findings. Do not list your interview questions and then give the response. Select several themes from what you wanted to find out and discuss the interviewers responses OR select several themes from the interviewers responses and discuss them. Sub-headings are acceptable in this report.Recommendations. You may make a few recommendations about how the interviewer could improve his/her interview practice; how you as the interviewer of the interviewer would do it differently the next time you conduct an interview; or what you learned from doing the interview. You also could include how the interviewing assisted you with your own reflections on your personal image.Conclusion. Write a brief summary of the main points of your report.Appendix. Include a copy of your final Interview Schedule which you used during the interview. Do not include any interview notes or transcriptions in your report.Helpful Hints: Be sure to ensure that your interviewer remains anonymous. You may make up a fictitious name for him or her such as Mrs Wong when that is not her real name or Mr A. You should also give a fictitious name to the organisation or company where your interviewer works. For example, you interview the Textile Support Supervisor at Mercantile Outfitters. It should be OK to keep the job title but the name of the company should be changed to ABC Company or Jeans R Us as a made up name.We will review reported speech (also known as indirect speech) in class. Make sure that you have both quotations and reported speech in your report.You probably will not be able to include every type of finding and/or recommendation in your report because of the word limit. You will need to decide on the most important points that you want to make in your well-organised report.