Interview Reflection

The second interview was different from the first for a few reasons.  First, I wasn’t as nervous because I was more familiar with the interview process.  Second, I chose to interview someone from a different culture than I did in the first interview.  The reason I did this was because I had trouble setting up an interview with my first choice.  I think email is sometimes a slower form of communication.  Next time I will ask for their phone number to set up an interview time.  By choosing someone from a different culture I got a different perspective of two separate cultures that are different than western culture.  I really liked that but I think for my third interview I would like to talk with someone from the same culture that I already did an interview with. This way I can compare information from a previous interview.  Also, it will be easier for doing the country report. I will be able to add on missing information to make it more reliable.  For the second interview I didn’t choose to do anything all that different.  I found that things went well during the first interview so I didn’t change much.  I reserved a study room in advance because the location was quiet and comfortable for conducting the interview.  I also used the recording device on my computer because it is easy to transport, it isn’t complicated to use, and it is convenient for transcribing. The flow from the first interview was much more fluid than in the second interview.  My interviewee had awesome answers but I feel like I could have done a better job connecting the questions.  During my third interview I will try that.  I don’t know the exact amount of time I took to transcribe the second interview because I did it in a couple of sessions.  I would say it took a couple hours though.  I thought I did a pretty good job overall. I am satisfied with how well it turned out but there is always room for improvement.  I am happy that I finished before the deadline and put in the amount of work that I did. After reading through interviews I think that I am higher than the class average but we will see when scores are posted! I feel like a number of students in class did an excellent job as well.  The amount of effort they put in will show in their overall scores.