For this exercise you need a cooperative, interested relative, or a very close friend, who would welcome interview practice.

1. Follow the sequence suggested in Table 10.2. to give your partner practice in being interviewed for a job, and giving yourself practice in interviewing and note taking.

2. After the interview, discuss your mutual feelings about the process around questions such as:

3. Now swap roles.

Data from Table 10.2

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Selector Friend Selector Both Friend Both Did you ever feel you were being misled? When? Why? Did you feel the interview got out of your control? When? Why? How could you have avoided the problem? How was your note taking? What, if anything, made you bored or cross? What did you find most difficult? How comprehensive is the data you have collected? Were you put at your ease? Were you at any time inhibited by the selector? Did you ever mislead the selector? When? How? Did the selector ever fail to follow up important points? When? Which? Were you in any way disconcerted by the note taking? Has the selector got a comprehensive set of data about you, so that you could feel any decision made about you would be soundly based? What did you think of the interview experience?