Gender Differences Of College Students’ Parlance In Job Interview

Abstract:As a social elite group, the employment problem of college students has always been universal concern. In recent years, the expansion of higher education and employment policy adjustment made them to face the society before graduation, through the application for jobs. It is indispensable to write a resume and go for an interview when they look for a job. However, these processes cannot depart from the understanding and using of language. College students’comprehending and using ability of language are seriously affected and restricted whether they can show their own ability perfectly in the process of their employment, which decide whether they can get an ideal profession.The physical and psychological differences between male and female college students as also their long-term social differences made the conspicuous differences in their language understanding and application processes. How to grasp the standard terminology and understand the different gender interviewers’language features become one of the key factors whether they can have an interview or perform well in the interview.Based on above reasons, this paper used the college students’ self-introductions, resumes and sound recordings of their interviews as corpus, quantitative statistical analysis and qualitative theory study of the corpus are based on the gender-language difference theory on the sociolinguistics. This paper is aimed to provide the reflections of gender difference in college students’job applications, and to prove the universal applicability of the existing theory in sociolinguistics as also to give some references for the college students.