There's only one interview technique that matters... Do your homework so you can listen to the answers and react to them and ask follow-ups. Do your homework, prepare.
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Job-interviewing is just a skill. Like any skill, some people have more of a predisposition for it than others.
I tell my students that if you have enough preparation, you can handle the big interviews. You won't be intimidated.
I am certainly more interested in interviewing than being interviewed. Sometimes you find yourself attacked from the start.
If you acquiesce to one interview, there's always another waiting in the wings. Also if you're interviewed repeatedly, you just start repeating yourself. I don't like to do that.
Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I'm not doing any of that right now. I don't have any axes to grind.
A good interviewer is able to ferret out what the applicant is really passionate about. Ask them what they do for fun, what they're reading, try and find out if they have a life outside of work.
Get to know the job intimately that you're applying for. Don't just read the job description - study it and picture yourself performing every task required of you. When you interview, framing your responses so that you reveal your significant knowledge about the job gives you a massive advantage.
My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you?' or 'What do you do?' you learn the most.
When I do interviews, I enter them with an open mind and try to answer the questions the best I can.
My advice to all interviewers is: Shut up and listen. It's harder than it sounds.