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Juggling 'I's and 'we's with 'he's and 'she's : negotiating novice professional identities in stories of teamwork told in job interviews
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Reissner-Roubicek, Sophie (2017) Juggling 'I's and 'we's with 'he's and 'she's : negotiating novice professional identities in stories of teamwork told in job interviews. In: Van de Mieroop, D. and Schnurr, Stephanie, 1975-, (eds.) Identity Struggles: Evidence From Workplaces Around the World. John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 57-78.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.69.04rei
Abstract
Teamwork is perennially among graduate employers’ most wished-for competencies, and how candidates respond to teamwork questions can be pivotal to success or failure. This chapter addresses novice interviewees’ struggles to construct professional competence in line with the normative expectations of the competency framework. Drawing on a corpus of 30 graduate interviews collected in New Zealand, the analysis highlights the discursive struggle to balance individual and team identities in orienting to achievements and difficulties, explored in terms ofBamberg’s (2011)three identity dilemmas: sameness/difference, agency/control, and constancy/change. It reveals how identities are talked into being in the tension between the “we” and the “I”, in attributing blame and in acknowledging a learning outcome, which are crucial to constructing an employable identity.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||
Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Company | ||||
Book Title: | Identity Struggles: Evidence From Workplaces Around the World | ||||
Editor: | Van de Mieroop, D. and Schnurr, Stephanie, 1975- | ||||
Official Date: | 26 April 2017 | ||||
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Page Range: | pp. 57-78 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1075/dapsac.69.04rei | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
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