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Interview people to obtain information

Work activity · O*NET

Interview people to obtain information is an intermediate work activity in the O*NET database — a concrete task that recurs across many occupations , grouped under Getting Information. 62 occupations report doing it as part of their work.

What it involves

The most common detailed activities O*NET records under this category, ranked by how many occupation tasks map to each.

  • Interview employees, customers, or others to collect information
  • Interview clients to gather information about their backgrounds, needs, or progress
  • Interview witnesses, suspects, or claimants
  • Interview people to gather information about criminal activities
  • Interview patients to gather medical information
  • Interview claimants to get information related to legal proceedings
  • Interview clients to gather financial information
  • Interview people to obtain information about actions or status of individuals

How AI is applied to this activity

Microsoft's "Working with AI" study mapped real Bing Copilot conversations to O*NET work activities. The figures below are their measurements for this activity — they describe how AI is used today in one assistant's data, not a forecast that the activity will be automated.

AI completes it successfully 38.4% When Copilot attempts this activity, how often it finishes the task
Scope AI handles 4.5% How much of the activity AI carries within a conversation
Positive user feedback 75.3% Share of interactions users rated positively
How often AI is applied here 74th pct Percentile across all measured activities by how often AI performs them

Source: Microsoft "Working with AI" (working-with-ai). A high completion rate means AI can assist the activity in isolation — it does not mean an occupation that performs it is being automated, since every job blends many activities.

Detailed work activities

The more granular units of work O*NET groups under this activity, ordered by how many occupations perform them.

Occupations that perform this activity

Ranked by how many of the occupation's tasks map to this activity.

Occupation Tasks
Claims Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators 3
Clinical Research Coordinators 3
Detectives and Criminal Investigators 3
Interviewers, Except Eligibility and Loan 3
Child, Family, and School Social Workers 2
Court, Municipal, and License Clerks 2
Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors 2
Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs 2
Equal Opportunity Representatives and Officers 2
Human Resources Managers 2
Lawyers 2
Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers 2
Purchasing Managers 2
Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers 1
Animal Control Workers 1
Arbitrators, Mediators, and Conciliators 1
Bill and Account Collectors 1
Broadcast Announcers and Radio Disc Jockeys 1
Coroners 1
Credit Authorizers, Checkers, and Clerks 1
Credit Counselors 1
Customs and Border Protection Officers 1
Dental Assistants 1
Environmental Compliance Inspectors 1
Fire Inspectors and Investigators 1
Fraud Examiners, Investigators and Analysts 1
Funeral Home Managers 1
Gambling Managers 1
Healthcare Social Workers 1
Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping 1
Human Resources Specialists 1
Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks 1
Intelligence Analysts 1
Loan Interviewers and Clerks 1
Loan Officers 1
Lodging Managers 1
Loss Prevention Managers 1
Marriage and Family Therapists 1
Massage Therapists 1
Media Programming Directors 1

Showing 40 of 62 occupations.

Exposure quadrant: AI task-overlap percentile vs Median pay AI task-overlap (horizontal) versus median pay (vertical), each as a percentile across all scored occupations, for 40 occupations in occupations that perform Interview people to obtain information.. Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation. Lower overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · lower pay Lower overlap · lower pay Massage Therapists Dental Assistants Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers Animal Control Workers Detectives and Criminal Investigators Healthcare Social Workers Loss Prevention Managers Marriage and Family Therapists Equal Opportunity Representatives and Officers Media Programming Directors Child, Family, and School Social Workers Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers Interviewers, Except Eligibility and Loan Court, Municipal, and License Clerks Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping Loan Officers AI task-overlap percentile → ↑ Median pay
Occupations that perform Interview people to obtain information., by AI task-overlap and median pay

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

Cite this page
Plain

Singulariki. "Interview people to obtain information." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/activities/interview-people-to-obtain-information

APA

Singulariki. (2026). Interview people to obtain information. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/activities/interview-people-to-obtain-information

BibTeX 
@misc{singulariki-interview-people-to-obtain-information,
  title  = {Interview people to obtain information},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/activities/interview-people-to-obtain-information}
}

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