Article: A lovely audience: William Parker offers his guide to coaxing the most useful information out of an interviewee--without making them feel they're facing the Spanish inquisition.(JOBS & CAREERS)

All financial managers will conduct interviews at some time in their careers--and not only for recruitment purposes--so it's essential to grasp the basic skills of this process.

Before the talking starts, you will achieve better results if you plan for every interview by taking the following steps:

* Identify your objectives.

* Identify your interviewees.

* Identify whether group sessions or one-to-one interviews are appropriate.

* Identify your schedule, framework, approach and questioning structure.

* Identify where in your work processes this activity occurs.

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