I'm gonna do a teleinterview..ideally, how many questions to ask to fill up the 1 hr interview time?

Johnson Tay · 12-28-2008, 05:31 AM

Any suggestions?

artwebster · 12-28-2008, 05:37 AM

If your interview is about breeding rabbits and you are talking to an internet marketer, as many questions as you can ask in an hour.

In other words, how long is a piece of string?

dorothydot · 12-28-2008, 07:06 AM

Yes, seems to me that this would be a case of... prepare as many questions as you can. Think of roughly how many questions you could do in an hour, then double it!

And I'd think you should be in hang-loose mode. Meaning be prepared to follow up any response your interviewee makes that promises to be informative and interesting. Could be you'd only need 1-2 questions?

Prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

Hope this helps,
Dot

Andy Fletcher · 12-28-2008, 07:09 AM

Definitely have loads more questions than you think you can get through so you can pick and choose. It's far better to run out of time than questions.

Plus make sure you send the interviewee the questions in advance and get their thoughts about it. They can give you the best indication of how long they can talk about the topics.

jhongren · 12-28-2008, 07:25 AM

Prepare about 10 questions...or more if you want.

What matter most for an interview is we have to really
catch and understand what the interviewee is sharing.

Most of the time, new questions will pop up on the spot
when we ask them to elaborate more, clarify what they have
said, give specific examples and so on.

Cheers,
John

David_Thompson · 12-28-2008, 07:53 AM

About 8 to 10 questions are a good point for an hour
because you want to leave room for when your speaker
goes off on a run that might take some time.

I did a training call with five questions that took over
1:30 minutes because I listened and tweak my question
along the way...

--David

Andy Fletcher · 12-28-2008, 08:08 AM

Oh, and remember if you're going to do any editing make sure to record a chunk more than you need.

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