Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Comparing my first and second interview


Interview is always important for our future life. The training we did in class is really useful and it is going to help us a lot. Every interview we do gives us more skill to do the next one better and better. My first interview wasn`t that good because it was our first assignment. For me, my way of asking questions improved when I compare with the first one. Plus, I was more relaxed and comfortable because in the second one I understood what to do. It helped me to ask my questions easily and create new topic to talk about. Actually, it is always easy to ask questions to a person who you know before.  Only different thing that I noticed is, I felt that I am improving.  My interviewee was from Cameroon which is way to different to Arabic culture. The conversation was so fluent because my interviewee was so cool when he was answering my questions.  The new thing for my second interview was the way I ask questions has changed when I compare to the first one, because I felt that in the first one it was so basic. However, his culture was contradictory and because of that it was hard to compare with the other cultures. I have spent at least one and half hour to transcript the recording. The reason of that is, his pronunciation was a little bit hard to understand.  I`ve satisfied with my interview, but I think I need to practice to be natural when I am asking questions. What I mean from natural is I shouldn`t just focus on the questions which I have to ask. The introduction part should be like a normal conversation rather than starting with questions directly. That`s something I have to fix. I felt this when I read my classmates interviews. I hope my next interview will be better.

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