Career roadmap
How to become an Interviewer
What you would actually do
The tasks Interviewers spend real time on, weighted by how central each one is to the job.
- Obtain personal or financial information about customers or applicants.
- Resolve operational performance problems.
- Verify accuracy of financial or transactional data.
- Negotiate financial arrangements.
- Collect deposits, payments or fees.
- Check data for recording errors.
- Code data or other information.
- Interview employees, customers, or others to collect information.
The skills that actually carry the job
Scored on how much the work depends on each one — not a wishlist, a measurement.
- Active Listening4.0/5
- Speaking3.9/5
- Reading Comprehension3.5/5
- Social Perceptiveness3.4/5
- Writing3.3/5
- Critical Thinking3.3/5
- Service Orientation3.3/5
- Time Management3.3/5
- Complex Problem Solving3.1/5
- Monitoring3.0/5
Would this suit you?
Every occupation leans on a particular mix of interests. Here is the mix Interviewers are measured on — and our free 2-minute Career Match scores you on the same six.
- Conventional6.0/7
Ordering, checking, following a precise procedure accurately
- Social4.1/7
Helping, teaching, caring for and working directly with people
- Enterprising3.7/7
Persuading, leading, selling, taking commercial risk
- Investigative1.9/7
Investigating, diagnosing, reasoning through problems with evidence
- Artistic1.4/7
Creating, expressing, working without a fixed procedure
- Realistic1.0/7
Hands-on, practical, working with tools, machines or the body
Interest profiles from the O*NET 29.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration. Used under CC BY 4.0.
