situational interview
interview
verb
uk /ˈɪntəvjuː/us
[ I or T ] HR, WORKPLACE
to ask someone questions at a formal meeting to see if they are suitable for a job or a course:
There were so many applicants for the job that we will be interviewing all week.
interview sb for sthWe interviewed 20 people for the hotel vacancy.
[ I ] HR, WORKPLACE
to talk and answer questions at a formal meeting held to see if you are suitable for a job or a course:
interview for sthHe interviewed for a number of jobs with banks and telephone companies.
Some people just don't interview well.
[ T ] MARKETING
to ask someone questions to get their opinion about a product or service, so that it can be improved or better advertised:
The marketing department interviewed a random sample of 514 people aged 18+.
[ T ] COMMUNICATIONS
to ask someone questions about themselves or a subject they know about for a newspaper article, television show, etc.:
interview sb for sthShe interviewed 120 current and former employees of the company for her book.
He declined to be interviewed for this article.

Examples of interview

interview
Particularly this latter section is informed by ' ' behind-the-scenes stories, ' ' based on copious interviews with key players in any given project.
Both authors advocate an eclectic mix of quantitative survey and qualitative interviews for the study of current rural labour transformations.
Initial analysis of the data from the interviews and tapes of the novices also indicated qualitative changes in the nature of expertise as it developed.
Qualitative interviews were made with 46 respondents who spent at least three months per year in each country.
From the qualitative interviews, however, some interesting expansions of the definitions of ' relative ' have emerged.
Observation and interviews with the children and the classroom teachers were used as a means to gather data on the potentially psychological impact of singing.
It was just such a dialogue that we both had with the interview protocols.
Fifty-two participants (53 %) returned the questionnaire on interview preference.
A group of 27 older adults in inpatient rehabilitation were interviewed during the programme and after returning home.
Of the remaining sample (4449) 87% were interviewed, 7% refused to co-operate and 6% were untraced.
Written notes were made from those respondents who refused to have the interview tape-recorded.
The experiences and views of homeless people interviewed for the study are reported in chapter seven.
This article reports on the results of those interviews and the development of the new resource.
Candidates are showing up in a random order for the interview.
At one point they interview a soldier recovering from amnesia.
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Collocations withinterview

interview

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baseline interview
The baseline interview, or the last attempt at interview signalled the date of entry into the trial.
brief interview
The evaluations were completed in a briefinterview.
clinical interview
The third stage comprised the clinicalinterview.
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