An interview is a meeting between two or more persons(one is interviewer and the other is interviewee) for the purpose of getting a view of the person seeking a job (interviewee). It is a face to face communication, how ever, now-a-days, some companies are interviewing the potential candidates by way of video conferencing. 

Advantages of the interview method: 

• Very good technique for getting the information about the complex, emotionally laden subjects. 

• Can be easily adapted to the ability’ of the person being interviewed. 

• Yields a good percentage of returns. 

• Yields perfect sample of the general population. 

• Data collected by this method is likely to be more correct compared to the other methods . that are used for the data collection. 

Disadvantages of the interview method: 

• Time consuming process. 

• Involves high cost. 

• Requires highly skilled interviewer. 

• Requires more energy. 

• May sometimes involve systematic errors. 

• More confusing and a very complicated method.