Margin of Interview
I had an interview in the evening today, so I was preparing for it all day from the morning. As a result, I think the interview went well. However, of course there were various points to reflect on, so I will write about that.
Even though I was preparing, I didn’t have much to do because I checked the company’s business on the website on the day when the interviewee was decided, and I looked at twitter and note about the interviewee and thought about most of them. So in the morning I decided to do my best to ensure that the interview went smoothly. Since it was an online interview using zoom, there was plenty of room for ingenuity, so first I made a material with question items written on slides so that I and the other party are always asking questions at the time of the interview. At the end, the interview proceeded according to the material, including the administrative communication including the future flow until the article was published. Next, I created a document that itemized what I searched for and what I wanted to hear, and displayed it on the iPad so that I could always refer to it at hand. If it was the Macbook Air I used before, I was able to expand the PC screen with an app called duet, so I was doing it, but for some reason that app did not start well after switching to Macbook Pro, so I had no choice but to display it on another device. But honestly, it’s not that inconvenient. However, after all it is better to have two screens. The PC during the interview decided to keep the material to be shared on zoom and the google docs next to it for my notes. After all, I’ve been recording at zoom all the time, and when I write an article, I listen to it, so I thought it might not be necessary to have a memo. I wrote the part of the memo that I was particularly interested in, so I thought that it could be used at the stage of thinking about the composition of the article before listening to the recording, but it is not a long article and the composition has a format in the first place, so as a result the memo I thought I didn’t have to do it. Also, it’s a little bit different from the other person’s story, so I feel that there is less opportunity to delve into or expand the topic, so without taking notes, while listening to the other person’s story during the interview, next I thought it was better to use my head to think about what to listen to.
It’s not a point of reflection, but I felt once again that the interview was an interview, not a chat. However, I think I was able to guide the story a little more intentionally, or in a way that naturally creates a chat-like conversation. First of all, I greeted him immediately after the start and then started the interview immediately, so I and the other party felt a little nervous from beginning to end, and even after the end, I contacted the office and it ended immediately. Since the interview time was only one hour, it can’t be helped, but I feel like the interview was dull. Of course, I heard what was absolutely necessary to write an article, and there were some things that the interviewee did not say by himself or even in other media interviews, but I played with the interview a little more. I think I wanted it. On the other hand, I think this is because I have no experience of interviewing in the first place, and I think it was almost OK for an orthodox interview. Besides, I feel that the margins during the interview, which I think are like chats, are probably something that you can only feel after gaining experience, and in the first place, advanced technology does not gain experience to intentionally create margins during the interview. I think it’s difficult.
What I want to say is that while I think that the margins created by chatting are interesting in interviews, while I think it’s too early for papers like me to ask for it, I think that margins are created from now on. If you train with that in mind, you can say that you have a job in your hands. I can’t say that I wanted to make an interviewer a lifelong job, but at least I thought it was a very deep and rewarding job.
Tomorrow I will have to multiply the last spurt of the Architectural Institute of Japan’s treatise, so I think I will actually start writing articles the day after tomorrow. However, I am relieved because I have gone beyond the step of a one-time interview. After that, I will quietly face the characters. I’ve been doing my best for the past few days, so today I’ll go to bed after watching a movie for the first time in a while. good night.
