-- Chapter 1 – Interactional competences in institutional settings: Young people between school and work: Simona Pekarek Doehler & Cécile Petitjean -- Section I – Institutional practices between school and the workplace -- Chapter 2 – Expressing personal opinions in classroom interactions: The role of humor and displays of uncertainty: Virginie Degoumois, Cécile Petitjean & Simona Pekarek Doehler -- Chapter 3 – The use of personal storytelling in speech and language therapist-adolescent interactions: Geneviève de Weck, Audrey Sublon & Gwendoline Fox -- Chapter 4 – Shaping participation in vocational training interactions: The case of schisming: Vassiliki Markaki & Laurent Filliettaz -- Chapter 5 – Taking the initiative in job interviews: Extended responses to questions and storytelling: Adrian Bangerter & Paloma Gosteli-Corvalan -- Chapter 6 – Newcomer nurses' telephone calls to porters and doctors: Inquiring and reporting as vehicles for requests: Anca Cristina Sterie & Esther González-Martínez -- Section II – Transitioning into work -- Chapter 7 – Becoming a 'good nurse': Social norms of conduct and the management of interpersonal relations: Helen Melander -- Chapter 8 – Toward a conversation analytic framework for tracking interactional competence development from school to work: Hanh thi Nguyen -- Chapter 9 – Transitions and interactional competence: Negotiating boundaries through talk: Meredith Marra, Janet Holmes & Keely Kidner -- Chapter 10 – Transitioning to effective medical practice: Junior doctors’ learning through co-working with pharmacists: Christy Noble & Stephen Billett.