Conversation with Gabriel

Yesterday I had my weekly exercise experience, the phone conference. I need to say I am a very shy person and introvert person, so as Terra and I agreed in the first conference we had last week, it is a rare situation when I am not very uncomfortable.
This time I had the conference with Gabriel Onwuegbuzie. We determined the job interview was for a teaching position. We followed some of the questions suggested by the guide and other questions in general about our lives to learn about the person that was in the other side of the line on the phone. When someone is in a job interview they also try to learn about that person who wants to work for their company.

The act of communications occurs people between people and in that moment people react to many other aspects not only in hearing the message. The phone conversation lack the visual messages that a person could use to transmit a clear message or use to communicate other message inside the same conversation to complete a message. The tone of voice was clam and clear.

The first interesting note was that Gabriel and I we both speak English with an accent and I thought that how amazing is life that connects a person from Europe with a person from Africa in a conversation in America in a communication class. I saw his origin as a wonderful opportunity for our class to learn about every subject from a personal different point of view. It gives all of us the chance to learn about others. I learned that he is from Nigeria and he came to California four years ago to work in a company that works with Dialysis. The fact that he moved from his own country with the desire to follow a dream tell us how strong person he is in working for his goals, something that is valued in any kind of job. He is in a program dealing with the Criminal Justice system. He is very interesting in the expansion of technology and the different manner that we could today communicate with each other. I asked him how he will react if his boss or a coo-worker asked him a question about his job and he did not know the answer. Would he admit to that person he did not know the answer or he will try to elude to answer? His answer was very fresh and adequate since he will do both things in an elegant manner, as I see it.

Gabriel is the leader in our team and you can sense his leadership in our conversation. I felt he likes to direct and to organize his life and the duties he has in his life. He could be a good acquisition to our Criminal Justice system with his qualities of organization, leadership and interest in others.