He or she is talking about the aunt of an aunt of an aunt Is this relevant?
Probably not.
You're probably also thinking about, okay, what's my next question?
And usually, no wise interviewers keep on thinking about, okay,
what's my next question?
I've prepared all those questions and now I forgot them, so
what is my next question?
You have to know your topic beforehand or do I need to probe?
What kind of probing technique do I need to use?
Do I need to use a hum or do I need to use an active silence?
Or do I need to use a request for a specification?
Or elaboration?
Or do I need to give a summary?
Why now?
Maybe later.
Or oh, gosh, what did the interviewer say?
Am I still warm enough?
Am I a naive outsider?
Or should I use a directive or indirective, non-directive probe?
What kinds of probes should I use?
And what kind of probing tactic should I use?
Probably, I should use a challenging probing tactic.
But no, he said, it didn't matter.
So, I could also use an encouraging technique.
No, I could also use an accommodating technique.
When you're doing this during your interview, you feel panic.
You feel total panic and that's not what you need during
an interview and all you think is help, but what helps?
What really helps beforehand is to be prepared.
So watch these lectures, read some books about interviewing.
Read some interviews done by others, watch some interviews on television.
Even though they're journalists, they have another goal.
They're not researchers, so they don't have a research goal.
They don't want the complete amount of information.
They usually want a scoop and entertainment,
but you can learn from watching them.
So do that and watch these interviews with a technical point of view.
How do they try to create rapport?
And you copy bits of that.
How do they probe?
What suggestive probes do they use?
What indirective probes do they use?
What probing tactics do they use?
So be prepared, simply by reading and so on.
The second trick of the trade is know your topic and
that's very often underestimated.
If you are going to do an interview, you really, really,
really have to know what you want to know.