Titre :

The Interactional Negotiation of the Rules of the Employment Interview Game: Negative Remarks About Third Parties and “Doing” Trust

Auteur(s) :

van de Mieroop, Dorien [Auteur]
Clifton, Jonathan [Auteur]
Groupe d'Études et de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Information et COmmunication - ULR 4073 [GERIICO ]
Schreurs, Charlotte [Auteur]

Titre de la revue :

International Journal of Business Communication

Pagination :

560-585

Éditeur :

Sage Publications Inc.

Date de publication :

2016-10-23

ISSN :

2329-4884

Mot(s)-clé(s) en anglais :

employment interviews
workplace identity
negative remarks about third parties
small talk
trust
comembership

Discipline(s) HAL :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Sciences de l'information et de la communication

Résumé en anglais : [en]

Job interviews have been the object of extensive academic research and of advice literature. Yet both have largely neglected to incorporate findings drawn from naturally occurring job interviews. In this article, we focus ...
Lire la suite >Job interviews have been the object of extensive academic research and of advice literature. Yet both have largely neglected to incorporate findings drawn from naturally occurring job interviews. In this article, we focus on the case of giving negative remarks about third parties. Popular how-to books strongly advise against such comments; however, while analyzing our corpus of more than 20 naturally occurring Belgian employment interviews, the frequent use of negative remarks about third parties was striking. This discrepancy between actual practice and prescriptive literature inspired us to investigate this phenomenon by focusing on the interactional dynamics of one job interview in which a candidate comments negatively on his boss after having constructed a personalized identity of a trustworthy person. We argue that, in this particular case, this negative comment demonstrates the candidate’s adaptability to the discursively renegotiated “rules” of the “interview game” and that this can be a successful strategy in employment interviews. To conclude, in the light of these findings, we speculate on the utility of the advice that “how-to books” provide.Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Vulgarisation :

Non

Collections :

• Groupement d'Études et de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Information et Communication (GERiiCO) - ULR 4073

Source :

Harvested from HAL