The Second Interview: What Changes and Why
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A second conversation with the same subject rarely simply repeats the first one, since trust has usually deepened considerably by that point, the subject has had genuine time to reflect on what was already discussed, and the interviewer now knows which specific threads from the first conversation genuinely deserve to be followed further.
This second sitting is often when the most valuable material actually emerges, since a subject now freed from the pressure of a first meeting tends to volunteer detail they had not initially thought worth mentioning, or simply had not felt comfortable enough to raise the very first time around.
Scheduling a second conversation, whenever it is genuinely possible to arrange one, is rarely wasted effort, since even a short follow up call can close gaps that no amount of careful preparation for a single sitting could ever have fully anticipated in advance of the conversation itself taking place.