Reflective Journal Assignment – Assignment #2
This whole interviewing experience was pretty great and interesting from both sides of
the interviewing process; But while I was being interviewed, I felt a slight bit of discomfort
during the process and felt that while my “Social Worker” (Bailey) was interviewing me was just
a tad bit tense; And what I mean by her being tense is her posture was tense, like she didn’t
really seem comfortable at all interviewing me, and her voice was tense as well, she spoke fast
and rushed through everything which caused some discomfort. On the other hand, she did make
me feel like I was being heard, she never once broke her eye contact with me and somewhat
expanded on the questions she originally asked; Also she made it quite easy for me …show more content…
Now if I had the chance to do the whole interviewing process again there are a few things
I would try to do better than I had the first time around. Those few things being, trying not to talk
too fast, quietly or mumbled, and I would also try to expand more on each individual question
because I know I did quite poorly with that; Also if I felt an inner panic attack coming on I
would take a minute, breathe and continue because from what I know already with social work is
you have to stay professional no matter what. I would also try to not take so many awkward
pauses in between words or phrases because I know that throws people off sometimes or
completely changes the subject.
There was quite a lot of good feedback my partner/client gave me after the interview
process, she told me that I had kept fairly good eye contact with and that I made her quite
comfortable with just the tone of my voice; Which made her feel like she could open up more
and talk to me, and she felt like she could trust me with everything she was saying.
What she said I really needed to work on though as to try and expand the questions a
This whole interviewing experience was pretty great and interesting from both sides of
the interviewing process; But while I was being interviewed, I felt a slight bit of discomfort
during the process and felt that while my “Social Worker” (Bailey) was interviewing me was just
a tad bit tense; And what I mean by her being tense is her posture was tense, like she didn’t
really seem comfortable at all interviewing me, and her voice was tense as well, she spoke fast
and rushed through everything which caused some discomfort. On the other hand, she did make
me feel like I was being heard, she never once broke her eye contact with me and somewhat
expanded on the questions she originally asked; Also she made it quite easy for me …show more content…
Now if I had the chance to do the whole interviewing process again there are a few things
I would try to do better than I had the first time around. Those few things being, trying not to talk
too fast, quietly or mumbled, and I would also try to expand more on each individual question
because I know I did quite poorly with that; Also if I felt an inner panic attack coming on I
would take a minute, breathe and continue because from what I know already with social work is
you have to stay professional no matter what. I would also try to not take so many awkward
pauses in between words or phrases because I know that throws people off sometimes or
completely changes the subject.
There was quite a lot of good feedback my partner/client gave me after the interview
process, she told me that I had kept fairly good eye contact with and that I made her quite
comfortable with just the tone of my voice; Which made her feel like she could open up more
and talk to me, and she felt like she could trust me with everything she was saying.
What she said I really needed to work on though as to try and expand the questions a