Interview or Interrogation?

Questions. As an interviewer, your role is to ask the right questions in the right way to get the right results. The desired result is to obtain an accurate idea of what the individual would be like as an employee for your company. However, this is the tricky part. Because questions require a response, they tend to trigger a reactionary type of behavior (similar to defensiveness). As an interviewer, it is essential that you possess the ability to put the interviewee at ease, so that you can have the most genuine interaction with them as possible. This can mean the difference between an interaction coming across as a friendly interview or a hostile interrogation. How can you find the balance between professionalism and friendliness while conducting an interview? I'm not an expert, but I believe that as a general rule if you are real with a person, they will be real with you.  

Subject change. I think that as the interviewee, the most important thing is to be prepared for the job you are applying for. You need to have experiences that you can reference while being interviewed. In class this week, I think that probably 90% of the questions asked in the mock interviews were questions that would benefit from giving an example as an answer. It is very important to get experience in the types of skills that your future employers will be looking for so that you will be prepared to give spectacular answers to those types of questions.