Cross Cultural Context and Job Interview

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Instructions: Please elaborate on your discussion (minimum of 250 words). Question for discussion: Imagine you’re going in for a job interview at a prominent high-tech company. From your understanding of High and Low cultural context, how would you prepare or express yourself during an interview with the interviewer who is a person from a different background from you? Introduction: During a job interview, many foreign-born job seekers are facing an uphill battle in trying to convince the company that they are a perfect candidate for the job. According to Manroop, L., Boekhorst, J. A., & Harrison, J. A. (2013), the authors explore the job interview process and noted that,                “through the lens of national culture and argues that cross-cultural differences between interviewer and interviewee can affect interview judgment and evaluation. However, the author [distinguished] that not all foreign-born job applicants are affected by cultural differences in the employment interview because there is individual variation within cultures (Sanchez-Burks et al. 2009). Indeed, it should not be surprising to find some foreign-born job applicants more attuned to verbal and non-verbal cues, or self-promotion behaviors that are specific to the context from which they seek employment in comparison to some of those born within the same context”.