The observations Jory Mackay state are crucial when interviewing like a journalist for many different reasons. The first reason I will touch on is body language.

If you are interviewing a person there is more to the conversation than just vocal. Observing the body language could show you that they are: Uncomfortable, ready to leave, happy, excited, and everything in between. This could help you determine what to/not to say. Which would work in your benefit to get the answers you intended to achieve. This could also work in a reverse state. Meaning that if you are giving off body language the interviewee might interpret what you’re saying differently. If you have good posture and not hiding your face from someone, they might open-up more to you.

This reading will help with our research because it gives a lot of different situations and how to deal with them properly. For example, Jory Mackay stated “If you don’t understand what someone’s said stop nodding along and ask a follow-up, or better off come on out and say ‘sorry can you explain that bit about ___ again?”. If you can tell that someone isn’t very enthused, you could get them to talk about themselves which will ultimately make them happier and more comfortable with you.

In conclusion I feel like everyone will benefit on our profiles from reading this. I know that I sure feel more prepared going into this than I did before the reading.

Refrence

MacKay, J. (2015, April 8). How to interview like a journalist (no matter what your job is). Crew. Retrieved fromhttps://crew.co/blog/interview-questions