b. Promotion
c. Work culture
i. Employee-Employee relations
ii. Employee-management relations
iii. Working conditions
Assumptions:
A. There are at least seven processes related to gaining
successful employment: (1)
searching for jobs, (2) screening jobs, (3) applying for j obs, (4)
interviewing, (5)
negotiating offer, (6) onboarding, and (7) working.
B. Communication is inherent in all employment processes.
C. Effective communication is a key factor in successful
employment success in all stages.
D. Individuals’ identities (understanding of, confidence,
experience, etc.) and self-
assessment (knowledge, skills, abilities etc.) are critically
important factors in
employment processes for all individuals
E. Discrimination can and does occur during any and all of
these seven processes.
F. Types of discrimination can include: age, disability,
compensation, gender & sexual
orientation, genetic, harassment, national origin, parental status,
pregnancy, race & color,
religion, and retaliation. See: Kulkarni (2020,

2
https://www.idealist.org/en/careers/discrimination-12-types)
and US Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission (2022,
https://www.eeoc.gov/discrimination-type
Assignment
A. Locate and recruit two participants who meet the following
criteria:
1. Self-identify as LGBTQ+
2. Age-18 or older
3. Persona 1 – New to workforce interested in public sector
Persona 2 – New to workforce interested in private sector
Persona 3 – Has work experience interested in public sector
Persona 4 – Has work experience interested in private sector
B. Use the LGBTQ+ Employment Communication Study
Interview Protocol (posted in
Blackboard) to conduct an interview via Zoom or phone.
C. If possible, record the interview. It is OK to not record but
you must then take accurate notes
(using the protocol form).
D. Strictly follow all recruiting and interviewing protocols (per

the IRB) reviewed in class.
E. Be professional and rep ODU MA-LSDC proudly.
F. Write up each interview as follows:
1. Date of interview:
2. Demographics:
3. Participants responses to each interview item. Be use the
form.
4. Additional comments you might want to add about the
interview:
Assessment Criteria
1. Participant meets all criteria. 5 pts
2. Complete (contains all elements for two interviews) 5 pts
3. Thorough [clear response (or non-responses) for all protocol
items recorded] 5 pts
4. Fully follows IRB guidelines 5 pts
Communication, Employment, & LGBTQ+ Community
Interview Study
Interviewer’s Name:
Subject 1Subject 2Additional Subject

Interview Date:
Read this statement in its entirety
My name is:
I am a graduate student enrolled in a communication research
methods course at Old Dominion University (taught by Dr.
Thomas J. Socha, Professor, Department of Communication &
Theatre Arts) and supported by research partner, MetroStar
(https://www.metrostar.com). We are gathering information
intended to better understand and improve employment
communication (job searching, applying, interviewing, etc.) for
the LGBTQ+ community and prospective employers. Your
participation is voluntary. No rewards are offered for
participation. Your identity will not be revealed. Information
from the study will be communicated in reports, papers, and
presentations but no specific information about study
participants will be communicated. Any and all potentially
identifying information will be removed or masked. You can
choose to not answer any (or all) of the questions for any reason
and may withdraw from participation at any time. Files of
recordings of the interviews will be kept in pass-word protected
spaces and after transcription and analyses are complete will be
deleted. For further information about the study direct questions
to Dr. Socha, Professor of Communication, [email protected].
For questions or concerns about you rights as a study
participant please contact Dr. Randy Gainey, Human Subjects
Review Committee Chair, [email protected]u.edu.
Do you agree to be interviewed for this study?
(
1
)
Demographics (ask theses questions aloud and record them on

this sheet for each subject)
1. To which gender do you most identify?
Or can prompt with:
(
2.
Your
current
age:
3.
Please
indicate
all
that
apply
to
you:
o
American
Indian
or
Alaska

Native
o
Asian
o
Black
or
African
American
o
Native
Hawaiian
or
Other
Pacific
Islander
o
White
o
Prefer
not
to
answer
4.
Are

you:
o
Hispanic
or
Latino
or
Spanish
Origin?
o
Not
Hispanic
or
Latino
or
Spanish
Origin?
o
Prefer
to
not
answer

5.
Do
you
have
work
experience
in
the
public
sector?
Yes
6.
Do
you
have
work
experience
in
the
private

sector?
Yes
7.
What
is
your
highest
level
of
education?
o
o
o
o
o
o
PhD degree
MA/MBA/MS/JD degree
BA/BS
degree
AA degree

Some college
High
school
8.
What
is
your
current
occupation?
Please
describe.
)

No No
9. What is your current employment status? For example,
employed, look for employment, in school and working part-
time and so on.
10. Are you currently seeking employment?
· Yes
· No
· Prefer to not answer
11. Do you foresee searching for new employment during this
current calendar year (2022)?
· Yes
· Maybe
· No
· Prefer to not answer.
Interview Items (Ask these items aloud and somehow record
their responses—audio, zoom, or via detailed notes on separate
sheets). The point to gather as much information as you can.
12. When looking for employment, what would you say are the
main qualities that prospective job seekers of the LGBTQ+
community (new or experienced person in the workspace)
generally look for in any employer (today in 2022)?
Response: I believe that the life history of every person who is
transgendered differs from that of another person with the same
condition and these aspects determine the qualities that a
prospective job seekers of the LGBTQ assess. Such difference
are usually molded by the manner of their upbringing, their
social environment and their financial environment. With this
condition, the transgendered individuals usually enjoy the early
part of their life since they are not mature enough to
differentiate between them and others with normal gender
identity and anatomical sex.
13. Think about employment in the public sector (e.g.,

government, civil service). Please describe your impressions of
the advantages and disadvantages to working in the public
sector as a career- path for you.
Response: I believe that everyone seeking to work in LGBTQ
community in the government tends to know the difference
between genders and they therefore, realize that they have a
problem. The gender that these people believe to be does not
match with the identity from their body expression. While at
their young age, transgendered children are told that it is wrong
and shameful for them to express their feelings regarding
transgender. One key advantage of working as a civil servant
under LGBTQ community is that one gets to interact with
people from different backgrounds and improve their careers in
the same field.
14. For LGBTQ+ individuals?
Response: One advantage of working for LGBTQ at individual
levels is that work becomes less and promote flexibility to work
on other aspects. I know thatthere have been various attempts
to do to transition from one gender to another. This common to
the transgender so they the identity of belong to one gender.
There are medical steps that are followed in order for one to
completely change one gender. The psychotherapy is performed
in the first three months and the hormonal therapy is done
which is aimed at modifying secondary sex trait.
15. When talking with your friends and community about
employment (both in the public and private sectors), have you
heard, and can you share, any positive stories about what
LGBTQ+ individuals might be look forward to experiencing
when working?
Response: I can say that the stage where stage trans-women are
induced with the hormone called Oestrogen which triggers
growth of breast, the thicker layer of subcutaneous fat, make
skin to be soft and to trigger the movement of fats to the hip. I
believe that these aspects cause excitement that leads them to
try the category of LGBT just to explore life.
16. When talking with friends and community about

employment (both in the public and private sectors) have you
heard, and can you share, any negative stories about what
LGBTQ+ individuals have had to manage?
Response: Well, the existence of LGBTQ community makes is
indication that there are not only two known genders. Sometime
people think that there are only two types of gender, male and
female, but other factors have to existence of many other types
of genders. The gender may be exhibited through many
indications such as hair styles, clothing and cosmetics and even
body language. This case happens mostly to women since there
have rights that that allow them to live in a wide range of sexes.
17. As a person who is a part of the LGBTQ+ community, when
screening prospective employers online what kinds of messages
do you look for that may attract you or push you away?
Response: Ibelieve that at birth children are identified as male
or female. But at a times a child is born and it gender
expressions differs from the one which is assigned. The
children born my bear both sexes. So, as the child develop
dominant sex genes may be seen through physical development.
If the transgender people seeks medical assistance in order to
transition from one sex to another then they may referred to as
transsexual.
18. Career paths include all of the jobs that individuals have
had from a very first job to today.
a. Think about a job early in your career. What was it? When
was it? Was it a positive or negative experience overall?
b. As a person who is a part of the LGBTQ+ community, while
employed in early first job, can you recall moments while
working there that were particularly positive for you?
What were they?
c. While employed in your first job, can you recall moments
while working there that were particularly negative for you?
What were they?

d. To what extent if, any, do you think early positive and
negative work experiences influenced your approach to
employment today?
Response: The transgendered children insist that their gender is
per what they believe and not what it seems to be. Here, they
refuse to succumb to the pressure to obey what others talk about
regarding their gender. Their firmness in this believe is
unchangeable regardless of facing ridicule from their peers’
counterparts or even from adults. However, during their stage of
puberty, the transgendered children feel anguished since their
bodies show changes that are unexpected. When this happens,
medical help is opted in order to delay these signs until the time
when they are mature enough to bear the anguish. I believe that
the transgendered children would try to conform to what their
normal gendered counterparts and children wish and demand
just for them to be accepted. In order for them to do this, they
must sought to suppress the feelings regarding the transgender.
However, this is another anguish in the sense that those
transgendered children finds it difficult to cope with the
internal conflicts within them.
19. Is there anything else that you would like to add to help us
to better understand how improve communicati on during
employment processes between individuals of the LGBTQ+
community and prospective employers, particularly in the public
sector?
Response: LGBT is a term that is used to express the situation
where people have a different gender from the usual association
of their gender from their birth sex. It is basically something to
do with the identity. Usually, the anatomical sex of a person is
defined by the identity of his or her gender. However, some
people have their gender identity different from their
anatomical sex. Such a situation is what is referred to as
transgender and the broader category of the term is usually
known as transgenderism. It explores the overview of the main
issues that surrounds transsexualism. One question that people
will seek to know in regard to transgender is the difference

between it and the sexual orientation. The experience of gender
identity and sexual orientation comes in two ways. On the other
hand, the person’s sense of being himself or herself in regard to
gender is gender identity. Typically, people who are attracted to
either men or women before transition continues with the same
feelings even after transition. Therefore, any biological man
who is attracted to women before transition will be attracted to
women after transition and thus, may be regarded as a lesbian.
Thank you very much for your participation!

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