Not having that "aura" can be exposed, said one interviewee, by a candidate simply "not saying much or if they do say it, they're not quite saying it the right way".
Snowball sampling possibly made our sample less heterogeneous (that is, interviewees tended to recommend candidates with experience with similar e-health innovations), although the final sample contained a good mixture (that is, male and female health workers from various health cadres and stages in their careers from four different post-conflict countries).
Deutschlander says that last year his firm interviewed about a thousand people, and found forty-nine it liked, a ratio of twenty interviewees to one candidate.
After introducing herself, the interviewer gave a verbal and a written description of the research and the candidate interviewees who met the inclusion criteria and voluntarily accepted to be interviewed were asked to sign an informed written consent.
Many interviewees don't realize it, but candidates who read books for their canned interview responses are as easy to spot as the applicant wearing his father's dated, ill-fitting suit.
One interviewee said it was easy to spot candidates from non-privileged backgrounds: "From my experience [they] … don't have a haircut … their suit's always too big … they don't know which tie to wear," they said.
Trainings focused on case finding, interviewee confidentiality and security, informed consent, screening candidates for interviews, open-ended qualitative interviewing skills, accurate and secure data gathering techniques, contact-based sampling methods, and human rights principles.
Our model positions the construct of interviewee performance as a central mediating variable between candidate attributes and interviewer ratings.
The other candidates often tend to be compared to this last interviewee, who has a definite edge if he or she did their job and presented well.
The pollster pushes: "Which candidate do you lean toward today?" If the interviewee had just been impressed by a powderpuff TV interview, he or she will reluctantly "lean" toward whoever seems hotter on the Internet or in cable talk or whose name is more familiar.
