Job Interview Preparation: A Practical Exercise in the Rhetoric of Oral Argument.

Plung, Daniel

Job interviews require applicants to demonstrate two things: experience with direct value to the company and a fit with the team and company culture. A technique is detailed demonstrating how to develop this argument based on aligning credentials with corporate interests, developing advocacy-based themes, and synthesizing material into a convenient study guide. Designed for instruction in either the college classroom or corporate training center, the approach provides professional communication students with a unique, practical, and personally meaningful learning exercise assessing rhetorical situations, examining rhetorical constructs, and delivering persuasive arguments.

EMPLOYMENT interviewing; CORPORATE culture; ARGUMENT; PERSUASION (Rhetoric); RHETORIC

Business & Professional Communication Quarterly, 2024, Vol 87, Issue 1, p177

2329-4906

Academic Journal

10.1177/23294906221142541