Employability in the Second Language : Recruiting Anglophone Legal Stagiaires in Montreal

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Title
Employability in the Second Language : Recruiting Anglophone Legal Stagiaires in Montreal
Abstract
The author addresses if and how non-native accentedness can impact evaluational judgements of on-paper qualifications in an employment process. Her study examines the judgements recruiters make when evaluating job candidates with different types of native and non-native accents. Anglophones who attend university in the officially French-speaking city of Montreal may wish to stay and work after their studies. She points out that McGill University’s Faculty of Law hosts a bilingual program which is unique in enabling students to work as lawyers in any province of Canada, including Quebec where the language of practice is predominantly French. In the author's study, highly specialized human resources specialists (Montreal legal recruiters) were asked to evaluate McGill Law students (putatively Anglophone and Francophone) for a particular recruiting process (Course aux stages, Montreal’s annual “articling” recruitment). The materials in her study simulated, in a controlled environment, a first encounter a recruiter may have with a stagiaire candidate. The recruiters were presented with candidates’ curriculum vitae (CVs) in conjunction with French-language voice samples from English-accented and French-accented speakers. The voice samples and CVs were counterbalanced, and both quantitative and qualitative evaluational judgements were elicited from the legal recruiter participants.
Type
Master's Thesis
University
Concordia University
Place
Montreal
Date
2015
# of Pages
vi-74p.
Language
en
URL
Citation
Hyde, Madeleine. “Employability in the Second Language : Recruiting Anglophone Legal Stagiaires in Montreal.” Master’s Thesis, Concordia University, 2015. https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/980340/1/Hyde_MA_F2015.pdf.
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