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Simon's Facial Expression

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Facial Expressions
During the interview, the accountant Simon always smiled to the shop owner Ciara, which made Ciara to relax to communicate with Simon. When Ciara finished answering questions, Simon sometimes nodded his head to show that he completely understood Ciara’s words. Nodding head also mean encouraging Ciara to try best to tell the fact for the next following question.
Gestures
Both the interviewer and interviewee did not use meaningful gestures during the conversation. I think the main reason is that they all get familiar with the three internal control tables so they do not need gestures to help each other to understand their words.

Interviewing for information
Purpose
The accountant Simon had a clear mind for this interview’s purpose which was to obtain the internal control information at Ciara’s tailor store. At the opening part of the interview, Simon also clearly noticed Ciara his purpose to invite her doing the interview.
Structure
The interview was highly scheduled. The accountant Simon prepared serval questions on a notebook before the interview and asked all these questions in the order during the interview. Simon broke down his questions into 4 parts including sales, employees, safeguards and reconciliation based on the internal control table. The entire interview lasted …show more content…

During the interview, the interviewer Simon mainly asked open questions for the interviewee Ciara. I think two reasons led Simon to design open questions rather closed questions. Firstly, as an entry level accountant, Simon was not supposed to know much information about the store so he could not design appropriate closed questions. In addition, Simon more focused on the processes of the internal control, so open questions such as “what’s your store’s hiring process” could allow Ciara to tell more details of her store’s

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