Project (3): Conducting an Interview

Rhetorical Situation:

This assignment assumes you will be placed in interviewing situations throughout your professional life. Interpersonal interviewing skills will be crucial to both securing a job and carrying out work responsibilities. Practicing interviewing skills will not only improve your professional communication skills, it will also improve your language, nonverbal, listening, questioning, and relational skills in your everyday life.

 Another situation you might encounter is when you are walking on campus, a street, stadium, or any other places. Someone might make an interview with you for several purposes such as asking about daily life events and preferences.

 Purpose:

The interview provides students the opportunity to practice employment interviewing skills as an interviewer and an interviewee. It also exposes students to formal dyadic communication. The interview could aid students in the preparation of a professional resume and a cover letter. Students have the opportunity to develop questioning and presentation skills.

 Audience

·  Your classmates

·  Your teacher

 Task and Content:

You are asked to work with you partner to conduct an interview. One student has to act as an interviewer, whereas the other has to act as an interviewee. The interview can be formal or informal. For example, you might agree with your partner to conduct a formal job interview. Also, you might conduct an informal interview to discuss daily life situations and issues. Don’t forget to submit the questions of the interview.

The interview should meet one of the following requirements:

• It has to be video recorded. The length is between 4-5 minutes. You may use any movie maker such as iMovie to edit the interview. The requirements of a high quality video, based on the rubric, include high quality shots. Video moves smoothly from shot to shot. A variety of transitions are used. Digital effects are used appropriately for emphasis. Be Creative when you design your video clip!
• It has to be audio recorded. The length is between 4-5 minutes.
• It has to be in a magazine or newspaper format if you prefer to do your interview for printable media. Be Creative when you design the layout!

 Final product (the interview) needs to be posted in your Facebook page or uploaded to YouTube or alike. Contact me if you have other media to post your promotion.

  Reflection:

After you successfully complete the assignment, you are asked to write a reflection (maximum 3 pages) about your experience in doing the assignment. The reflection should include why you choose a particular type of interview (i.e. formal, informal), why you choose certain medium or media, the process of doing the project, and your feedback on how to improve the assignment in the future.