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The Complete Guide to Becoming An Interviewer, Except Eligibility and Loan
What you'll really do, what you'll really earn, and whether you have what it takes to spend your workdays talking to strangers—without the sugar-coating.
by Alumigogo Books
Chapter 1: What Does a Interviewer, Except Eligibility and Loan Actually Do?
You have probably filled out a survey online. You have probably been asked, at a store or on a street corner, whether you have five minutes for a few questions. You may have even hung up on a pollster without a second thought. If you have done any of these things, you have met an Interviewer (Except Eligibility and Loan) without realizing it. That is the first and most important thing to understand about this occupation: most of the people doing it are invisible, even while they are talking directly to you.
So what does the job actually involve? The title is a government classification, which means it covers a broad family of roles. But in plain language, an Interviewer (Except Eligibility and Loan) is someone whose entire job is to collect information from other people by asking them questions—and to record those answers accurately and completely. You are not a journalist. You are not a detective. You are not a customer service representative. You are a structured conversation specialist, and your output is not a story or a conclusion. Your output is a completed questionnaire, a filled-out form, or a typed-up transcript of answers that someone else—a researcher, a government agency, a hospital, a market research firm, or a company—will use.
Let us get specific, because the broad description does not capture the texture of the work. The most common sub-roles in this category are telephone interviewers