interviewing

How to plan your search for information, build rapport, and create a succinct interview report Read More

Lifehacks for Investigators: How to Win Friends and Spy on People Read More

One theory for getting to the truth in an interrogation? Have the subject tell the story backwards...but does it work? Read More

Every employment interview should follow some sort of structure to ensure consistency.  This should be applied to the length of the interview, questions asked of every applicant and job expectations discussed as well as the method used to close the interview. Uniformity in the Read More

Statements, either recorded or written, are essentially the work-product of your interviews with the people who are involved with an insured loss.  As previously mentioned, these statements lock the interviewee into their story and make it difficult to change their description of Read More

When communicating with others, asking questions seems to be the least often used skill.  This happens for many reasons; we do not want to appear uninformed, overbearing or overly challenging in our quest for the truth.  Quite simply, asking questions and pairing them with Read More