Challenges and benefits essay

Challenges and benefits of interviewing an international student (or an US student)

  We can encounter some difficult situations while interviewing with a student. To know these challenges will help us get more benefits from our interview.

 Especially, if we choose an international student to interview, language differences and the conflict that stems from this difference, can be the first challenge. Not having same languages as a native languages can create confusion.

 Also, if the interviewee doesn’t show respect to your work and even while he/she is unaware of the answer, if she/he gives you one that means we should cross reference our data that we collect from our interviewee. Thus we can avoid biased information too. On this point honesty is so important. If we cannot get correct answers from our interviewee, that can affect our conclusion.

 Other than that some challenges can be caused specifically by the interviewee. If our interviewee have a shy/incoming personality, if he/she not punctual, if he/she has a lot of topics that make her/him uncomfortable to talk about, our interview will be negatively affected and we can deal with some challenges in out interview.

 Additionally some challenges can cause from interviewer. If the interviewer couldn’t create a well-organized environment to interview, if she/he is not punctual, if she/he unaware from her/his topic or not able to empathy with interviewee, our interview can affect negatively.

  When we look benefits of an interview with a student, two important ones should come to our mind. First one is meeting with a new person and start to know about him/her. Second one is being able to contact with a person who can provide us information about our topic from the experiences that she/he have.

To have a great interview, we should always have a second plan before to start our interview. We should make a brainstorm about possible challenges that we can face with during the interview. We should always remember to use empathy with our interviewee.

Utku Hasbay

Group Members: Utku Hasbay, Jonathan Madden, Gabin Tene
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