Interviews for final papers
Dear Student, if you are reading this text, it is probably because I sent you the link to it. They asked me for an interview or something similar for a thesis. I’ve done something like that a lot in the past, but not anymore. The reason: You invest a lot of time, usually don’t even get a “thank you” in return, and the promised work doesn’t come either. Sad highlights were, for example, inquiries via XING, where I couldn’t send an answer because the student didn’t want to receive messages from strangers, or inquiries about topics for which I’m certainly not an expert, but since I’ve already written a book, that would fit somehow. I also have no idea how you can get the idea that you have at least 90 minutes for a telephone interview several times a week. Robert Basic had also [written about it][https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2007/06/18/studenten-und-ihre-blog-umfragen/] before, so it doesn’t necessarily seem to be due to the quality of my answers that I never hear from the student who was gifted with my time after sending my answer. Of course, I may be doing you an injustice, after all, I have already met very nice interlocutors, some of whom even became [prominent][http://www.ehrensenf.de/]. But in fact, these are the few 1% who not only ask well-thought-out questions (the ones whose answers I have to think about and which you couldn’t read anywhere anyway), but also thank them and then send the work as promised. The remaining 99% stole a lot of my time, and you can now thank them. So I’m sorry to have to answer your question in the negative.