Battle Stations (Oct25)

Effective Interviewing and Interrogating Techniques

         Principles of Kinesic Interviews
         Investigative Interviewing
         Al-Qaeda perhaps. Annals of Guantanamo, renditions in Egypt, Bulgaria, Bahrain? (Or was that unconfirmed?) Kashmir?
         No, dear Reader. The clean, orderly and whisper-quiet streets of Singapore, still.
         Gobbledegook, you think?... Not likely. Not to this earnest mid-20s lad with note-paper beside his pile, sharp pencil at the ready. 

         The library doors have only been open an hour. Hardened types exclusively that time of day. Monday mornings were usually graveyard quiet. 
         This was far from a quick, flying consultation; young chap settled for proper research. 

         Lime-green thin white striped polo, blue jeans, white track-shoes, possibly that morning creamed. (One should not judge from the cover, books aside.) 

         The job interview late week, or next perhaps. The first of the round in a highly competitive market. Never say die; try, try again. Do your research, leave nothing to chance, any kind of advantage to be gleaned.

         U.S. publications, naturally, hardbacks in lurid violets & yellows. (Rather in the vein of some of the spirituality guides.) Chaps with PhD's from Harvard Biz School, Bristol and Manchester. Management, Human Resources, Corporate Governance, Social Psychology, Behaviourialism, Bio-mechanics, Functional Economics & Eugenics. 

         Heads of financial institutions, corporations, social policy units, the churches more than likely, penning their life experience in their twilight years in order to enlighten those just entering the race. Lads like this vying to get their toe-hold on the bottom rung. 

         Wouldn't matter too, too much if the surface of the earth wasn't shared. 

         The titles alone up on the Arts/Soc. Sciences shelves on the eighth floor enough to curl even Asian hair.