Interview:
In this method, the job analyst directly interviews the job holder through a structured interview form to elicit information about the job. This method is found suitable particularly for jobs wherein direct observation is not feasible. By way of directly talking to the job holder, the interviewer job analyst may extract meaningful information from the job holder about his/her job.
However the interview method is both time consuming and costly. Particularly, the professional and managerial jobs due to their complicated nature of job, require a longer interview’ This may also be a possibility that bias on the part of the analyst and the job holder i.e., the respondent may cloud the accuracy and objectivity of the information gathered through interview. Nonetheless, the effectiveness of the interview method will depend on the ability of both interviewer and respondent in asking questions and responding them respectively.