take/make or do an interview? (2025)

Hi everybody,
I have a doubt: how should I write?
I have taken ten interviews
or
I have made ten interviews
or
I have done ten interviews

??

p.s. I was interviewing other people.

Many thanks

F.

born in newyork said:

An interviewer in this situation could also say: "I have done ten interviews." (but definitely not "taken" or "made").

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I agree with born in newyork. I would say, "I have done ten interviews."

My intent would be to say, in effect, "I have completed doing ten interviews."

I would understand "given" to mean that you were being interviewed, chocolatemug, but you stated that YOU were interviewing someone else. You didn't "give" an interview; you conducted one.

I wouldn't use "perform", because that's like saying you were acting or entertaining in a stage role or something.

And you didn't "make" an interview, because it's not something you constructed out of actual items.

AngelEyes

"Doing an interview" is what I commonly hear from journalists. I was again told last week, for example: We are going to do an interview with you two. We are going to do both of you(!)

By the way, they also use it when they talk about giving interviews - Could you do an interview? meaning: Would you agree to tell us...?

Then if I want to ask if you can be interviewed for a job...

Is it possible to have the interview on skype?
or
Is it possible to do the interview on skype?

you say the first option is the right one, isn't it?

I have interviewed ten people.

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Hello. What about:

I am taking an interview with a famous singer tomorrow.

Thank you.

Re. #15

Whether you're the interviewer or the interviewee, your proposed sentence doesn't work for me.

If you're the interviewer: I'm interviewing a famous singer tomorrow or I'm doing an interview with a famous singer tomorrow.

If you're the interviewee: I'm being interviewed by a famous singer tomorrow or I'm giving an interview to a famous singer tomorrow.