Interview assignment
I have to admit when I first got word of this assignment I was very eager to run out and interview the district manager of the company I work for, Keith Perkins. I myself work for the tech giant company, Samsung. I have been with the company for a little over two years now. And I cannot be any happier with what I do. Keith Perkins was the guy who had originally brought me in and hired me. He has been a great mentor for me throughout my tenure with the company and has really been the main reason why I excel in my job. In fact, I enjoy what I do so much that my ultimate goal is to continue with the company after college and hopefully land a different position in the marketing or public relations department to represent the company on a bigger scale. Moreover, as the
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Also, to simply find out more about Keith’s career as a whole. As I mentioned before Keith has been a great mentor for me so I found this as a great opportunity to pick his brain. Ultimately, I decided that I wanted to interview someone in a position that I would like to be in one day. So I contacted Keith Perkins believing that a job like that would not be completely out of reach someday. I felt that this was my best shot at gaining some information about a career field that I would like to explore. This was a great opportunity to gather information and guidance about the people, environment, and skills involved in that field. I used this assignment as a strategy. As on opportunity to get to know Keith Perkins a little better since it is very difficult to get the chance to connect with him. Although I do work for the company, in doing sales, I decided that it wouldn’t hurt to do some basic research about the career field. I wanted to clarify what I hope to gain through the interview. Since Keith was the one who interviewed me years ago, I still had his contact information from that day. Which led to the approach process being relatively easy. Keith had always
For my first interview, I chose to analyze my grandfather (William McGlone) and his personal work histories. At age 84, he had quite an extensive work life. After graduating from the University of Minnesota in 1956 with a B.A. in Communications, he began his job search with a strong focus on advertising.
The name of the interviewee is Matt Gunnell. He is a manager at the Jefferson City Apothecary. He has been instrumental to manufacturing medicine a playing a vital role in keeping the people of the Jefferson City community healthy and strong. I decided to choose Matt because he is a laid back and amazing individual who is very positive about life and encourage others to thrive and find their talent to make the world a better place. He also has a strong passion for his job and his role in ensuring the wellness of our citizens in this community. Also, I picked the Apothecary because of the vital role they to ensure our society have access to the medicine they need to stay healthy. It is one of the very few pharmaceutical businesses in town. It also offer pocket friendly prescriptions for some citizens that had to pay out of pocket.
I have been working at National Grid for about eight years after I graduated college. For most of that time my Manager has been Chris. Chris is a former Navy guy that joined National Grid after he finished with his tour. Like me, Chris also started in the design department and eventually moved to the manager position he is at now in Distribution Design. Our role here involves designing for infrastructure improvements, maintenance projects, customer initiated projects, internal projects, investigations, complaints, repairs, and emergencies within our service territory. We design both overhead and underground electrical facilities within our
To end the interview, MacKinnon was asked to give advice on how to get a job in the field. Two key pieces to his advice were, when you apply and go in for an interview to not hesitate to ask questions to the employer. That this is ultimately your career choice, and you need to make sure that it'll be a right fit for you. He also, and most notably stated, that you need to determine what area of communications you want to enter, but to also be open to other opportunities because those opportunities might take you somewhere unexpected but ultimately beneficial.
After taking the time to reflect on the interview I believe that Kristen Hall and Dana Scalisi got to know me very well during our brief time together. We spoke about my work experience in the sports industry, my leadership roles in Young Life, and my long term goals after completing my MBA. I enjoyed our conversation regarding my roles and responsibilities for the Detroit Lions, specifically about the various pricing models that I use and the different components that go into them. However, due to the limited time we had together, there were a few points I wish I could have expanded upon.
Before conducting my interview allow me to introduce you to my Interviewee, Patrick Davies. Patrick attended the University of California Riverside, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration (B.A.B.A), with a core in finance. This he attributes (in part) to his success as a Manager. Patrick has held numerous management positions; from a lower level warehouse manager, to his current positon of Divisional Manager (middle management) at VCI Construction, Inc. All told Patrick has eleven years of experience in management and currently oversees thirty employees, which I believe makes him the ideal candidate for this interview.
Evan Edwards general sales manager for 102.3 radio free radio has been with the industry for over 10 years now. Evans understands how this business works and operates, on its own rules regulations and stipulations. Some people outside of the rules of radio might not understand that game, but when you also add the element of sales to radio things can get hectic and confusing . Edwards agreed for me to have an actual 24 hour visual of his schedule, while also granting me an exclusive interview opportunity. While in management position "things become seemingly different some people may have an issue with your authority but none of that is important what is important is being sure the company does not get involved or affected with personal issues
In late October I was able to schedule an interview with in order to get to know a bit about about his position and experiences. At first we started to talk about his background. Kyle Reeve received a Mechanical Engineer bachelor's degree from Northeastern University. I was very surprised to know that he did not actually go to college for software engineering or
Good morning, my name is Rodny Sherman-Garcia. Thank you for taking the time to meet with me today not only to help me with my school research but also for the opportunity to learn more about the work you do.
Currently, the interview is a production artist and project manager. He has been employed for 9 years at this location. His work involves assessing projects, prioritizing projects, and assessing digital art files. He receives digital art files from a client, and assesses if it can
Steve Barrett is the Executive Director for Human Resource Operations for the Minneapolis Public Schools District. According to S. Barrett, he has worked in his current position for seven months (personal communication, January 20, 2015). Previously, Barrett worked as an adjunct professor at the Metropolitan State University for 25 months, and as an Executive Director for Employee Relations at Minneapolis public schools for 20 months. Later, he worked as the Labor Relations Director at Osseo Area Schools for three years and four months, and Labor Relations Specialist at the City of Saint Paul for six years and one month (S. Barrett, personal communication, January 20, 2015). Barrett earned his master’s degree at Hamline University, where he graduated with a Masters of Arts in Public Administration. In this report, I document the interview I had with Barrett on January 20, 2015 to discuss human resources management in the school district.
Ngoc Van Nguyen is a staff Accountant at Associa Community Management Corporation located in Richardson, Texas. He was gracious enough to take time out of his busy schedule for this interview. Not only was he generous with his time, he showed great excitement in sharing his story and experiences with me. I left the interview with a better understanding of his work and what it takes to excel in my profession. Sharing his experiences encouraged me to continue on my path, and inspired me to become more engaged in my professional development
For my Sport Manager Interview I interviewed Mr. Matt Seibring who is an Assistant Director in Competitive Sports. I asked Mr. Matt questions that related to his job and basically to help prepare and give me advice for my career plans in the future.
I structured this paper by giving you the insight about all the question I asked and the responses I received, ending it off with the list of facts I learned and knowledge I gained throughout the interview.
My first question to him was why - why did he want the job? His response was perfect. He was looking for new challenges, new directions in which to grow. He felt he had a good understanding of the roles the people on the team played and felt like it was a good way to break into management.