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interviewed vs interviewee

These two terms are related to the process of conducting an interview, but they refer to different roles. 'Interviewed' is the past tense of the verb 'interview,' which means to ask questions of (someone) in order to get information. On the other hand, 'interviewee' is a noun that refers to a person who is being interviewed. They are not interchangeable as 'interviewed' describes the action taken by the interviewer, while 'interviewee' describes the person being interviewed.

Last updated: March 30, 2024 • 982 views

interviewed

This term is correct and commonly used in English as the past tense of the verb 'interview.'

It is used to describe the action of asking questions of someone in order to get information during an interview.

Examples:

  • She interviewed several candidates for the job position.
  • The journalist interviewed the famous actor for the magazine article.
  • Relax. I interviewed a pilot once.
  • We interviewed his breeder Dr. István Szetmár.
  • I interviewed every witness I could find.
  • My officers just interviewed Darlene's ex-husband.
  • Vicki's the only one that we've interviewed.
  • All the neighbors were interviewed the day Holly Clark disappeared.
  • So everyone here will be interviewed.
  • It's those mothers we interviewed.
  • Laura Tyson, who declined to be interviewed for this film...
  • She was interviewed here by Sally Singer.
  • No, we already interviewed mrs.Mayfair.
  • We interviewed Paula Heikkinen-Lehkonen, who judged Group 8.
  • Bureau office where we interviewed the kids.
  • We interviewed his breeder, Canadian Dawne Deeley.
  • Fiammetta Castagnini interviewed the project coordinator, Professor Sonia Gabrielli.
  • Salman Umar we interviewed him yesterday at Kertek Computing.
  • Condoleezza Rice refused to be interviewed for this documentary.
  • We interviewed his owner Gloria Urbani.
  • Your editor, Matthias Kirschner, was interviewed before Akademy.
  • Candidate John Charles Wilson was interviewed once on KSTP-AM.

Alternatives:

  • conducted an interview
  • asked questions during an interview
  • spoke with during an interview
  • held an interview

interviewee

This term is correct and commonly used in English to refer to a person who is being interviewed.

It is used to describe the person who is answering questions during an interview.

Examples:

  • The interviewee provided insightful answers during the job interview.
  • The panel asked the interviewee a series of questions.
  • Only on one occasion the interviewee introduces a topic.
  • Astra Fallcas was a very responsive interviewee in Falluper's ornithological survey filmed some 18 months before the Violent Unknown Event.
  • the person the interviewee considered to be his/her father when he/she was around 14 years old.
  • In general the mother will be the biological mother, but if the interviewee considers someone else to be the mother during the reference period, the answers should refer to her, even if the biological mother is alive and known.
  • Where's the next interviewee?
  • And the audience just - you know, they're always on the side of the interviewee, and they felt that this was a kind of assault, but this was the question she had wanted somebody to ask her whole life.
  • And the gems are always the outermost aspects of our interviewee's personality.
  • The reference period shall be when the interviewee was around 14 years old.
  • Normal practice is that the interviewee be questioned by an officer at least one rank superior.
  • Voiceprint for Gator's caller matches lucky interviewee number 11.
  • An additional accommodation allowance and/or daily allowance may, exceptionally, be paid if prolonging the stay would enable the interviewee to obtain a reduction in the cost of transport worth more than the amount of these allowances.
  • My next teen interviewee here?
  • Where's my interviewee?
  • This is somewhat against resistance and caginess on the part of the interviewee.
  • The body mass index (BMI) variable can be computed from height and weight collected during the interview or directly collected from the interviewee using a show card.
  • Anyone responsible for accompanying a disabled person who has been invited by the ERCEA to attend a meeting in an interviewee capacity.
  • Because Cora Mae always places her interviewee.
  • The reimbursement shall be made by the ERCEA upon submission of a request for reimbursement, duly completed and signed by the interviewee and by the ERCEA official responsible for certifying the interviewee's presence.
  • In order to support her assertion Nemtsov's interviewee told him that a large number of children had been born last year in the refugee camps in Ingushetia.
  • I mean my own personal philosophy of interviewing - and I've done quite a bit of it on the air as perhaps you know - is that the most illuminating disclosures usually derive from areas... only indirectly related to the interviewee's line of work.

Alternatives:

  • person being interviewed
  • candidate in an interview
  • respondent in an interview
  • subject of an interview

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