Survey Interviewer
What the work is
Interviews people and records their responses to survey and market research questions on a range of topics.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Contacts individuals to gather information in person or by telephone
- Administers questionnaires on an area of interest following a set format
- Records responses to questions on paper or electronically
- Tracks the distribution and collection of questionnaires to addresses, businesses or people
- Communicates the importance of survey participation and explains relevant privacy policies
- May interview people at random in public settings
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in a mix of behind-the-scenes roles: a hospital records office, a strata building and a film production office. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- A messy situation ends with everyone knowing who is doing what and by when
- A document, a form or a code is checked and found right the first time
- Someone thanks you for the thing they never had to think about, because you did it
Hard days
- Everyone wants an answer now, and the answer depends on someone else
- Standing between two parties who each think the other is being unreasonable
- A simple mistake in a record that can ripple through everything afterwards
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
Work a mission
Step into a simulated workplace in this field, with a brief from your manager.
Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 599938, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.