Informational Interview Examples

For my informational interview I interviewed Hasty Elementary School Counselor Candace Thurman. Mrs. Thurman earned her B.A. in Psychology from Salem College and a MA Ed.S in Mental Health Counseling from Gardner Webb University. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed School Counselor. Her maternal grandfather suffered from mental illness and was homeless. Seeing the impact his condition had on him as well as her family compelled her to choose a career in mental health. Mrs. Thurman worked in the middle school setting for 11 years. This year is her first year in an elementary school.

For this informational interview assignment, I interviewed Adam Kohlmeier who is the self-employed investor who currently working on entering the real estate business. When I started looking in to who I should interview for this assignment I decided to ask some friends and people around me if they knew anybody who was a businessman with a financial aspect and I got back a lot of names and one of the names that showed up a couple times was Mr. Kohlmeier. The people that mentioned him all have gone to him for financial advice or just to talk about the stock market. Reaching out to Mr. Kohlmeier not sure what to expect but he graciously excepted the interview and along the way he gave me some great information about business, investing and what are some of the things it takes to be successful when you work for yourself.

Through conducting this informational interview, I have learned to have a successful and great experience for it, you will need to do a little research ahead. For instance, this assigment asked to research about the person and the company that the person worked for. When I did my research on the person and gathered information, I was able to connect with her as we were both born in India. Even though, we are years apart in age, there still seemed to be similarties in our personalities as we are interested in the same career field. This helped me connect with her personally which is more important as it will help her recognize me instantly. In addition, researching about her company helped as I was engage in more detailed conversation about

I interviewed a psychologist for my second field research. Sharon Epel has been a licensed psychotherapist for 12 years and has been a family and marriage counsellor in her own private practice. She has done extensive work with schools and has been a therapist to a variety of temperaments and personalities. I wanted to understand how she helps people, and what she notices about them in her sessions. I tried to create an informative interview that would benefit me by giving me a look into how people’s brains influence their emotions. I hoped that this interview would give me a solid understanding of introverts and extraverts and their differences.

This human resources interview is being conducted with Jackie Finch, owner of Iron Dragon, LLC. Ms. Finch is now retired. After 23 years in the manufacturing industry, Ms. Finch left and started her own business in the computer/technical field after returning to studies in 2007 and obtaining a Master of Science degree in Information Systems Management in 2010. Iron Dragon, LLC was founded in 2010 as a technical repair/installation subcontract firm. Typical customers included other technical companies that handled installation and repair activities for clients such as NCR, Dell, among others. Iron Dragon’s reach extended from Texas to Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana. To be more specific, Iron Dragon contract to assist in the install of retail self-checkout equipment, retail hand scanners, POS equipment, computers, signature pads, servers, fast food drive-thru equipment, movie rental kiosks, ATM’s, etc. Iron Dragon’s end user list includes Home Depot, Wal-Mart, Office Depot, Taco Bell, and smaller retailers, as well as private citizens. Iron Dragon also provides consultation in such matters as disaster prevention/recovery, equipment purchases, security, and risk management.

The person I decided to interview for this assignment was Dominick Wade. He is a manager of a lock shop and preventative maintenance company called The Siegel group. It is a contracting company that is located in Fort Hood, Texas. What this particular company does is preventative maintenance on the electronic door locks on all of the barracks on Fort Hood. Which also includes changing the batteries, card readers, mortises, computers inside the locks, and replace missing screws in the door locks. After conducting this interview, I gained some knowledge and understanding about the maintenance industry. It also gave me a greater appreciation for what maintenance workers do.

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

Because the reason I am aware of this topic is because of my father, and because my father is a mechanical engineer, I decided that my first “interview” would be with

Nelson Garzon-Leon is a senior engineer at Northrop Grumman. He did a presentation on recruitment requirements for engineers, some job searching techniques and some job interviewing tips.

The person that I interviewed for this project was my nineteen-year-old brothers girlfriend Liv Postl. Liv is 18 years old and is a senior this year. Some extra curricular school activities that she is active that may influence her motivation with school work include she is in dance and dance team, plays volleyball, and she works at a daycare when she gets out of school. These activities might influence her motivation because after school she either goes right to practice or work, then on the weekends, she also has dance classes at the studio that she is a part of and she also has dance team practice on the weekends.

Worker: I started the conversation by introducing myself and my role. “Hello I’m Mara Arroyo. I ‘m a Social Worker Interim and I’m here to listen and try my best to understand your concerns”

I am going to college to become a Mechanical Engineer. My major would be Mechanical Engineer and I would minor in Math. Through my research I have decide to attend Caltech, CSU Pueblo, or CU Boulder.The tuition that the colleges charge would be in between $23,000-$75,000.It would take me 131 credit hours to complete my degree. Once I get out of college and get in to the working environment my annual salary would be around $113,550.

I interviewed my brother Michael Joseph Kerrigan he is an engineer for SSOE which stands for Samborn, Steketee, Otis & Evans the founders of the company. he does several different things, such ac presentations for the project he is working. Most of the work he does hast to do with the design of semiconductor factories and he also designes cooling systems in warehouses.

For the second part of my assignment, I was asked to do a reference interview. This for me was the most exciting part of the assignment, since I haven’t asked a library professional for help since I was in elementary school. I was anxious to see how the librarian responded to me and was interested in the quality of the resources we might find. Again, like the first part of the assignment, I wanted to pay close attention and look at my interview experience with fresh eyes. I wanted a different environment than what I experienced at the music library, so I chose a different library.

My name is Ridge Winnett. I am a fourth year student at Mississippi State University. I will be graduating this May with a Petroleum Engineering degree. I am grateful for the opportunity to apply for the open Drilling Engineer role at your company. After reviewing your job description, it is clear that you are looking for a versatile candidate to handle the numerous responsibilities associated with this role. Given these requirements, I am certain that I can exceed all expectations.