interview

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noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ face-to-face, in-person (AmE), one-on-one (esp. AmE), one-to-one (BrE), personal

▪ phone (esp. BrE), telephone

▪

Telephone interviews with over 400 businesses picked up high rates of satisfaction.

▪ group

▪ extensive, in-depth, lengthy

▪ brief

▪ follow-up, second

▪ police

▪

a police interview with suspected terrorists

▪ magazine, media, newspaper, press, radio, television

▪ exclusive

▪

We have an exclusive interview with the director of the movie.

▪ live

▪

He did a live interview on the CBC News Morning show.

▪ job

▪

I have a job interview tomorrow.

VERB + INTERVIEW

▪ carry out, conduct, do, hold

▪

The survey team carried out over 200 interviews with retired people.

▪ arrange, schedule

▪

The company contacted her to arrange an interview.

▪ request

▪

A journalist called requesting an interview.

▪ schedule

▪ do, give (sb), grant (sb)

▪

He's a very private man and rarely does interviews.

▪ attend, be called for, have

▪

She's been called for an interview for the manager's job.

▪ air, broadcast, publish

▪

The interview was published in all the papers.

▪ feature

▪

This month we feature an interview with Nicole Kidman.

▪ audiotape, record, tape, videotape (esp. AmE)

▪

She taped an interview to appear the following day on ‘CBS Sunday Morning’.

▪

All police interviews are recorded and transcribed.

INTERVIEW + NOUN

▪ room

▪ panel (esp. BrE)

▪ techniques

▪ procedure, process

▪

The questions are the central point of the whole interview procedure.

▪ question

▪

Prepare answers to possible interview questions.

▪ footage

▪

The documentary combines interview footage and clips from his films.

▪ clip, segment, snippet (all esp. AmE)

▪ transcript

▪ request

▪

I get a lot of interview requests from journalists.

PREPOSITION

▪ in an/the interview

▪

He said in an interview that he wanted to get married.

▪ interview about

▪

He gave the paper an interview about his musical tastes.

▪ interview between

▪

an interview between the French Foreign Minister and the President of Egypt

▪ interview for

▪

an interview for the post of sales manager

▪ interview with

▪

He had an interview with IBM.

▪

an interview with the Vietnamese leader

PHRASES

▪ a round of interviews

▪

We're about to start the second round of interviews for the post.

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verb

Interview is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑journalist, ↑police

Interview is used with these nouns as the object: ↑applicant, ↑candidate, ↑participant, ↑survivor, ↑suspect, ↑witness