Skills Required for Conducting In-Depth Interviews For in-depth interviewing to be effective, interviewers must have excellent interpersonal communications and listening skills.
Important interpersonal communication skills include the interviewer’s ability to ask questions in a direct and clear manner so respondents understand what they are responding to.
Listening skills include the ability to accurately hear, record, and interpret the respondent’s
answers. Most interviewers ask permission from the respondent to record the interview
rather than relying solely on handwritten notes