Tag Archives: interview
Family History
Last week I finally spent close to an hour with my grandmother, talking about her family. For a while now, I’ve been thinking about interviewing my family members to learn more about their lives, and the lives of their parents and grandparents. And now, finally, I have my first interview completed and it feels amazing. [...]
Silence, as an interview technique
James Fallows discusses something I would be too scared to try: The “let the silence stretch out” approach, which is not discussed as often as it should be, can be a surprisingly valuable interviewing technique. The truth is that most people who are being interviewed would like to think that they are providing you with [...]
On Talent, two books, two interviews
I recently saw two interviews on Charlie Rose which I thought were particularly interesting. Both deal with the question of how top performance is achieved (nature vs nurture) and the two authors have two different takes on the issue. Both fascinating. A conversation with Malcolm Gladwell, author of “Outliers” A conversation with Geoff Colvin, author [...]
Informational Interviews
While I was still in college, I went to listen to a panel of speakers, organized by my university’s career services department, to discuss “Informational Interviews.” After that panel, I went to an informational interview with one of the panelists and ended up meeting 4 people, I would have never met otherwise. Here is one [...]
Conducting Work Interviews
The company I work for is currently conducting several rounds of interviews – and I’ve been finding myself really looking forward for my turn to interview the candidates. While I generally just go in expecting to have a conversation with the general intent of “getting to know” the other person – recently that strategy hasn’t [...]
Christine Quinn: a politician to watch
This is a third video in a row to be posted here and I apologize for that – but I couldn’t resist. Charlie Rose had a great guest on and I would like to share my excitement with you. The guest’s name was Christine Quinn and she the Speaker of the New York City Council. [...]
“On Chesil Beach” by Ian McEwan
I read On Chesil Beach last night. It was a wonderful little book to read and it made me want to read more by Mr. Ian McEwan. I learned about the book when I saw Mr. McEwan on Charlie Rose:
Charlie Rose: A conversation with Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s Ambassador to the U.N.
I’ve never seen or heard Mr. Churkin speak before – and found his demeanor impressive. However, I was kind of disappointed with Mr. Rose’s questions – there were stock questions about Russia as covered in American media. I realize that’s difficult to get to the essence of as many subject as Mr. Rose covers, but [...]
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