Minority interview report

Résumé du document

In order to complete my minority interview report, I decided to interview my brother as the youngest member of his working team. He is still studying in a very famous top school in Rennes (France) in order to become a hospital director, but works at the same time (depending on the periods of the year) as a trainee in a big hospital in the North of France since 11 months. Since he skipped a year in his early years at school, he has always been very young in the next classes and in his university studies. He is now 24 years old and will graduate next June as a hospital director. He is currently working in a team of 12 persons, and the average age in around 45-50 years old. He is thus the youngest (and also the most qualified) of this team and this sometimes creates difficulties.

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[...] On the contrary, older members often come to ask him his opinion on situations they face. This story is thus kind of a happy end, and I really enjoyed interviewing my brother about his integration in the team and learning about the problems he had to face. Finally, interviewing him as taught me that being in a minority situation can be really difficult to cope with, even if you have the legitimate skills and qualifications to be in the team. [...]

[...] Managing the diversity takes sometimes a long time but it's at the end almost always a successful experience. Each and every member of the team has to something to bring and to share, and especially if you're different, what you bring can always be useful or at least interesting for the team. In order for companies to manage integrating diverse people, they have to concentrate their efforts on the way for “existing” people to welcome the new member of the working family and to focus on how helping him or her feeling at ease and comfortable in his or her job. [...]

[...] At the beginning, some of the team members were quite helpful with him. My brother felt at this time ambivalent feelings: on the first hand, it was kind of them to try to help him and to supervise him in order for him to feel more self-confident in his work, but on the other hand it was a way for them to show him that he wasn't able to make substantial decisions on his own and that he needed their help, and had to ask them before making a decision. [...]

[...] Managing diversity is not something easy on the first sight, but it's something essential and can be achieve easily if each and every member do an effort in the same direction. [...]

[...] Minority interview report In order to complete my minority interview report, I decided to interview my brother as the youngest member of his working team. He is still studying in a very famous top school in Rennes (France) in order to become a hospital director, but works at the same time (depending on the periods of the year) as a trainee in a big hospital in the North of France since 11 months. Since he skipped a year in his early years at school, he has always been very young in the next classes and in his university studies. [...]