5 Basic Mistakes Interviewers Should Avoid

Upon evaluating my first ever interviewer experience, I realized how poor an interviewer I was. And so, I wanna list in this post the things that I've done wrong, so as to remind myself and other junior interviewers not to make the same mistakes.

Before the Interview

1. Not setting up a time limit for the interview.
   You may not have time to ask every question on your list before your interviewee tells you that he/she has to leave for another appointment.
   
   
2. Not clearly stating how much of the interview will be covered in your article.
   If you plan to cover only a small part of the interview in your article but the interviewee don't know about it, he/she may end up elaborating too much for each question.
   What's worse, when he/she finds out that a great deal of the interview is cut out from the article, he/she may not be willing to give you help anymore next time.

During the Interview

1. Interrupting the interviewee in the middle of his/her response.
   It shows that you're rude, and no one likes to be interrupted anyway.
   
   
2. Sharing your own story.
   Well, if the article is not about you, why would you occupy everyone's time talking about yourself rather than themselves?
   
   
3. Making too-ready judgement on what they said.
   No one likes to be judged. Judgment would only puts them in an uncomfortable position where they would have to raise their fences and trigger their fight-or-flight response. (Unless if it's what you want to achieve.)