Week 9 Tutorial

This week’s tutorial mainly focused on discussing a case study regarding a church management team looking for a pastor for their church. From this discussion, what I learnt is that an interview is not mainly about you, but the organization. In an interview, we should always connect ourselves with the organization, their agenda and their goal. As an interviewee, we should always address the organization and show them how we could benefit them and help them in achieving their goals. I realized from this discussion that qualifications are not the most important element when it comes to a job interview or job hunting in general. Instead, it is the way an individual presents themselves, in other words, the person with the best performance during an interview will most likely get the job compared to others who have pages of qualifications but failed in presenting themselves to the organization. Besides, there are a few things we should consider before going for an interview. Firstly, we should always do research on the organization’s background, agenda and goals, and also the role/position we are applying for. This is to prepare us for any impromptu questions or tasks from the interviewer and also this will help us in showing the interviewer how much we understand and know about them. This can be related to the Socialization process.