Jean Kennedy Smith Quotes

I have nothing against interviews. I don't pursue them. When people I work for deem it appropriate, I'm perfectly willing to serve.

Most interviewers basically just want us to rephrase the bio. You already know us - why do you need to interview us?

I like doing interviews. I really do.

I think the long interview has an important life.

Sure, it's fun to chat with people with interesting backgrounds who seem to have a passion for your company. But a job interview is not a friendly chat. You need to determine whether candidates, can they really do the job. So ask them to prove it.

It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview - and it can be polite - is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can't be exactly sure what will be asked.

I am really bad at actually interviewing people.

I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was not annoyed during the early part of the interview by my asking stupid questions.

I have interviewed face-to-face, sitting beside me, over 19,000 people.

Managers get interviewed for jobs, but I think it should be the managers who are interviewing the chairman.

A lot of times, going into the interview, you have an idea of maybe what you want to talk about. And the people you are interviewing have an idea of what they want to talk about.

Interviewing is tough, especially if you don't know what you're looking for.

Interview? Oh don't be ridiculous.

When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.

I am a demanding person to interview.

When I do interviews, I never pre-plan them at all, radio or TV.

What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.

Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.

Rarely does an interviewer ask questions you did not expect. I have given a lot of interviews, and I have concluded that the questions always look alike. I could always give the same answers.

There comes a moment during a job interview when you're still talking, but you might as well take off your shoes.

For most jobs, especially those in the digital economy, there is no objective standard for being 'qualified.' If you and the team you're working with think you're qualified, you are.

Job-interviewing is just a skill. Like any skill, some people have more of a predisposition for it than others.

I'm frightened of interviews.

But unfortunately, I have to say, one out of every 100 interviews I do, I get a real journalist.

When you're interviewing someone, even your mother - you have to sort of deal with you have to get some objective space from yourself and the person but you also have to find what's the best way to get the information from that person.