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| Author: | Campbell, S. Roberts, C. |
| Title: | Migration, ethnicity, and competing discourses in the job interview: Synthesizing the institutional and personal |
| Journal: | Discourse & Society
2007 : MAY, VOL.18 p. 243-271 |
| Index terms: | discrimination migration |
| Freeterms: | discursive skill ethnicity institutional discourse job interview |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | In this paper the authors study the institutional and personal discourses of the competency-based interview and how their synthesis produces an 'authentic self'. The authors study the interview processes through video-recorded job interviews. They find that the interview process is particularly disadvantaging to foreign-born minority ethnic candidates because of the requirement for the synthesis of work-based and personal identities as many of the foreign-born ethnic minority candidates lack the access to British "job interview English". The authors find that such lack creates judgment from the interviewers towards the interviewee and weakens the interviewee's chanches to acquire the job. They found that those with convincing synthetic persona were much more likely to acquire the job. The authors state that there is little relationship between discursive skill of interviewees and the actual demands of the job assignment. |
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