Tiitinen2022

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Tiitinen2022
BibType ARTICLE
Key Tiitinen2022
Author(s) Sanni Tiitinen, Tea Lempiälä
Title Recruitment interviews for intermediate labour markets: Identity construction under ambiguous expectations
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Tag(s) EMCA, MCA, identity, institutional interaction, intermediate labour markets, recruitment interviews, Finnish
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Year 2022
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Journal Discourse Studies
Volume 24
Number 6
Pages 758-780
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DOI 10.1177/14614456221112276
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Abstract

Intermediate labour markets (ILMs) provide fixed-term work opportunities and coaching for people in disadvantaged positions in labour markets. We study 46 sequences from six audio-recorded recruitment interviews for an ILM job targetted at people who have been unemployed for a prolonged period. Using an ethnomethodological approach to identity, membership categorisation analysis and conversation analysis, we study how interviewers and candidates construct and negotiate who is fit for the ILM job. We present interactional moves through which the participants jointly construct the ‘fit for the ILM job’ category and treat the candidate’s membership in it as a positive matter. Further, we demonstrate how the candidates are put in an interactionally difficult position in the interview as there are contradictory and ambiguous expectations about the ideal candidate. We discuss the results in relation to the interactional and institutional logics of a recruitment interview and suggest that enhancing the transparency might reinforce ethics of recruitment in ILMs.

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