We transcribed all of the taped interviews so as to get a thick description. Lindlof and Taylor (2002) recommended that the interviewers transcribe interviews themselves because they (the interviewers) are familiar with the “speech patterns, references to people and place” of their interviewees (p. 205). For research questions, we read and re-read the transcripts and used other data from documents and notetaking during the interviews to create a thick description. Then, I looked for common meanings if they appeared in the interviews. In this section, I used the language of participants and my own interpretations to create a thick description and the focus of the analysis was on the components of communication competence in job interviews. I identified the themes that were evident in the data by grouping common statements or ideas. We did this by using notecards. Moreover, I also used the data from the transcripts and our journal and notes from the fieldwork to interpret our data.