What Are The Types Of Interviews?

There are many types of interview you faced in your career some of them are listed below for guidance.
Selection Interview: Its purpose is to hire and select the right person for the right job.
Vocational Guidance Interview
It is to help an individual find its best vocation/occupation/profession.
Counselling Interview: It is conducted to help emotionally disturbed. Home and personal problems are also discussed.
Survey Interview: It is used by marketing personnel to find answers to the marketing problems.
Group Interview: Groups are formed to talk out the problem
Job Interview: It is conducted to select best candidates.
Persuasive Interview: It is held to persuade the other party such as seller-buyer interview. It requires careful listening and speaking, and understanding the viewpoint of the other person.
Disciplinary Interview: Here the accused subordinate s given an opportunity to explain or justify has action. His reply may follow a warning to keep from the repetition of such actions.
Exit Interview: Such an interviews held when an employee resigns or I fired. Information so gathered may be valuable and help future policies. Here he talks fearlessly.
Information Interview: It is held to give or get information. Such interviews are held between buyer and seller, teacher-student ,parent-child and manger subordinate. Here you observe what has been avoided, omitted, exaggerated, concealed or twisted.

An interview is defined as a mode of direct interaction between two or more people.  The interviewer(s) directly talks to the interviewee(s) to get valuable information.

The types of interviews are:

1) Structured Interview - A structured interview is very formal. The interviewer prepares the questions to be asked in advance. Usually the will make an appointment with the interviewee.


2) Unstructured Interview - An unstructured interview is less formal and more like a discussion.  In this case the questions are not prepared in advance, but are decided as the interview progresses, and according to the answers provided.

3) Panel Interview – These are a little less common.  In this type of interview the interviewee will be face to face with a group of interviewers all skilled in different areas of the field.  Any one of the interviewers can ask a question of the interviewee.

4) Telephonic Interview – This type of interview can be taken as a mode of screening potential candidates for further interviews.

It can also be used when the physical distance between the interviewer and interview does not allow for a face-to-face interview.

5) Performance Interview – Sometimes rather than asking questions the interviewer will give the interviewee a task to perform.  This way the interviewer can determine if the has the skills being sought.