Challenges and benefit of interviewing an international student or an US student.

Challenges and benefit of interviewing an international student or an US student.

Interviewing an international student or an US student is not easy. It’s not easy because it has many challenges and benefits at the same time. So I am going to cite some of the challenges and benefits of interviewing an international student.

First of all I am going to talk about the culture. Culture is one of the main challenges of interviewing someone. For example in my culture it is very impolite when an older or someone you respect talk to you and you look at him right in the eyes. Or they are some people that you can ask certain questions and the person feels offended or disrespected. Here in US it’s not a problem but back home it is, meaning that it is very hard to know how to do not offend somebody.

The second main reason I can cite is the language issue, So many international students others have languages issues, the person can willing to help you but doesn’t know how to explain because English is not their first language. For example the interviewee wants to explain you how to they sew their traditional clothes or how they cook their food but he can’t explain because he doesn’t know how to call it in English.

The third one is to find an interviewee that feels comfortable to talk to you, International student most of the time they are not open, sometimes you interview someone that doesn’t want to be open to you that makes is harder because you have to convince the person to give you his time so you can process with the interview.

Interviewing International students can have lots of challenges but at the end it has a lot of benefit too, because you learn a lot from your interviewee, like the way they do things and you even gain an experience in interviewing.