Abstract
This article is based on a type of interviewing techniques: cognitive interview. The article discusses the different uses of this type of question based interview which are interviews for job selection, conducting surveys or police interrogations.In this interview, questions are designed by the interviewer as such that they acquire past experiences, behavior, problems to situations put forward to the candidates. The interviewer judges the confidence and memory of the candidate. The techniques of cognitive interviewing discussed are “think-aloud”, “verbal-probing” and “personal context”. The advantages and disadvantages a job interviewer may have in selecting candidates suitable for the post are Continue reading...