Last week, I did an interview with Jillian and it took all of 3 minutes-less actually- so Dr. Chandler decided to show me how it was done. (I answered questions but didn't actually conduct any questioning).
First thing I learned: It is 100 times better to have interview questions prepared.
Actually the intervieewd started off pretty rough, which may be typical. Dr. Chandler asked jillian recall questions such as where she was when the twin towers fell, what she remembered about the classroom, she even got creative when jillian couldn't recall much, and asked her if she remebered what color she was wearing.
Jillian had given only a handfulof information at the beginning:
She was in a cathlic elementary school when it happened
They hadn't told the students what was going on, but she knew somethging had happened because people were crying
They let the kids home go early and she took the bus home
Her sister, who is older than her knew more about it than she because the middle school teachers had told their students
She did not knowe exactly what happened until she got home and started watching television as well as hearing from her sister- at this point the second tower had not fallen
Then, after what seemed like an average interview, it took off after Jillian mentioned her friend in a response to a question freom Dr. Chandler about if she knew someone who was directly affected.
At this point Jillian opened up about a friend whose father had died quite recently from cancer which was developed from all of the smoke inhalation and debree from the site of the attack. One question.
At that point the interview could have gone another 5-10 minutes easy, but alas, we were out of time.
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