interview
Formal candidate assessment
An interview is a formal meeting where one party questions another—typically for a job, news story, or research.
The interviewer asks questions; the interviewee answers.
Job interviews assess candidates: She nailed the interview and got the offer.
Journalists interview sources for information.
As a verb, to interview is to conduct or undergo such a meeting: We interviewed six applicants.
Police interview suspects and witnesses.
Career summary document
- candidatePerson seeking selection
- hiringGiving someone work
- jobPaid position of employment
- applicationFormal request document
recruiter · employer · qualifications · position · vacancy · cover letter · recruitment · offer
One who gathers news
- journalistNews profession practitioner
- sourcePoint of origin
- profileSide-facing outline
- exclusiveLimited to one group
quote · scoop · newsmaker · press · media · anchor · off-the-record · soundbite
Requests for information
- answersReactions to queries
- dialogueSpoken exchange between parties
- discussionExchange of ideas
- rapportHarmonious mutual connection
exchange · interaction · communication · prepared · nervous · confident · impression · body language
One who gives answers
- surveySystematic data collection
- questionnaireFormal inquiry form
- participantOne who takes part
- qualitativeRelating to characteristics, not quantities
focus group · transcript · data · sampling · ethnography · oral history · field study · subject
Believe to be likely
- detectiveProfessional crime investigator
- alibiDefense of location
- confessionAdmission of wrongdoing
- evidenceFacts supporting truth
testimony · witness · custody · investigation · polygraph · cross-examination · interrogator · questioning
resume
Career summary document
application · recruiter · employer · qualifications · position · vacancy · cover letter · recruitment · offer · career
reporter
One who gathers news
- journalistNews profession practitioner
- sourcePoint of origin
- profileSide-facing outline
exclusive · quote · scoop · newsmaker · press · media · anchor · off-the-record · soundbite · segment
questions
Requests for information
- answersReactions to queries
- dialogueSpoken exchange between parties
- discussionExchange of ideas
rapport · exchange · interaction · communication · prepared · nervous · confident · impression · body language · eye contact
respondent
One who gives answers
- surveySystematic data collection
- questionnaireFormal inquiry form
- participantOne who takes part
qualitative · focus group · transcript · data · sampling · ethnography · oral history · field study · subject · informant
suspect
Believe to be likely
- detectiveProfessional crime investigator
- alibiDefense of location
- confessionAdmission of wrongdoing
evidence · testimony · witness · custody · investigation · polygraph · cross-examination · interrogator · questioning · statement
- communicationtelephone, conversation, inform, hand signal, messages
- employmentjob, jobs, career, careers, hire
- eventsevent, events, party, parties, wedding
- workjob, 9 to 5, jobs, labor, employee
- spoken communicationphone call, conversation, speech, dialogue, voicemail
- journalismreporters, editors, student editors, school paper, news
interviewcasual conversation
Informal spoken exchange
chitchat · small talk · banter · gossip · shooting the breeze
interviewmonologue
Uninterrupted solo address
lecture · report · speech · presentation · announcement
interviewsilence
Total lack of sound
avoidance · exclusion · rejection · stonewalling · no comment
- job interviewFormal hiring assessment meeting
- phone interviewRemote job candidate conversation
- exit interviewDeparting worker's feedback session
- interview questionsPrompts for job candidates
- locker room interview
- second interviewSubsequent candidate evaluation
interviewer, interviews, interviewee, interviewing, interviewed, interviewers, interviewees, preinterview, reinterviewed