Interview notes

Interview notes are evidence. A hiring panel compares candidates from them, a researcher builds findings on them, and a journalist may print a quote from them. That only works if the notes keep three things apart: what the person actually said (quoted exactly, or clearly paraphrased), what the interviewer saw, and what the interviewer concluded. Mixing them is how a vague impression turns into a "fact" about someone.

This skill handles three kinds of interview with one shape and a few differences: hiring interviews add evidence against criteria, research interviews add themes, and journalism interviews add attribution terms.

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