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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #335 - Interviews

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Leisure, Game Design, Mtg, Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Games, Ccg, Mark Rosewater, Magic The Gathering

4.7801 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2016

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Mark talks about some of the interviews he has done and tips about doing good interviews.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Employment driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work.

0:06.5

Okay. So today's topic is, I'm going to talk with something I do a lot that I've never discussed, I think, on my podcast, being interviewed.

0:16.6

So one of my jobs, one of my many, various jobs, is I'm a spokesperson for the company,

0:22.4

one of these spokespeople for the company.

0:24.3

And one of the thing that entails is I do a lot of interviews.

0:28.7

So today I'm going to talk about all the things I've learned about doing interviews.

0:32.6

So it's sort of a topic on how to be interviewed or how to do a good interview, I guess, is the,

0:38.6

so the assumption here is that you're the interviewee and not the interviewer.

0:43.2

There's a whole probably different podcast on how to interview people.

0:45.8

I've done some of that.

0:47.2

But I've done a lot more of being the interviewee where someone's interviewing me.

0:51.6

So one of the things that's very interesting is I have actually had training.

0:55.6

So they give you what's called media training where usually it's like a half day and

1:00.1

they take you aside and there's experts to come in and talk about how best to, you know,

1:03.7

do interviews and stuff.

1:05.3

So I want to share with you today some valuable tips learned over the years.

1:09.6

A, I'm just doing a lot of interviews, and B, being through media training and stuff.

1:14.6

Okay.

1:15.6

Number one, these aren't in a particular order other than the order they come to me.

1:20.8

First off, I think a lot of times there's this concern of interviews as being some adversarial thing. Somehow when people have

1:29.8

interviews, they're thinking like they're being grilled and, you know, in a police, you know,

1:34.6

in a police room or there's a light shining on them and they're like, where were you,

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