Informational Interview Paper

S is a 59 year old African-American female born and raised in Anson County who has attended several institutes of higher learning. After earning a Bachelor of Science in Secretarial Administration from Barber-Scotia College, she later received special education teaching licensure from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Because of her love for learning, S has also taken online classes through the University of Phoenix. She has been a secondary special education teacher for three years and currently works with 8th graders at Anson Middle School.

Do you think Serge’s skills were assessed adequately? Do you think he was correctly identified as learning disabled? Why or Why not?

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.

Many young students want to pursue a career in accounting but are still wondering whether the possibility of matching this job or not. In general, the accounting industry is considered the industry that many students including myself choose and study. Graduate, students easily find a job and have a steady income. Not only easy to find a job and a stable income, I began to choose accounting because of the peculiarity quite "comfortable" of the industry: not too demanding, picky, I just have to like working with the numbers and skills required when working with numbers. Since accounting is an indispensable part of all companies and organizations, so this is one of the best craft unemployment negligent that I want to purse.

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.

Using the interview guide, we interviewed Larissa, a Personal Support Worker (PSW) who works at Gary J. Armstrong (Gary J). Larissa has been working as a PSW for close to two decades and was able to provided valuable insight into her discipline. During the interview, Larissa discussed her role as PSW at Gary J and outlined the knowledge and skills required for her practice.

As an Accounting major, I am very interested and have become fond of learning about the varying business aspects within the sports industry. As a result, I decided to conduct my interview with a professional that is associated with the business operations of athletics. The person that I interviewed was Dawn Reynolds, the Senior Associate Athletic Director for Business and Finance here at the University of Miami. After initially getting in contact with Ms. Reynolds a few weeks ago, I was finally able to meet with her briefly and conduct my interview on November 30, 2010, in room 261 in the Hecht Athletics Center. Just to give a bit of background information about Ms. Reynolds, she is from Elmira, New York and now

I would describe her as a theory Y leader and not just due to my observations, but based on what her direct reports have shared with me. Theory Y leaders may be characterized as commitment and trust oriented, see people as being more interested in assuming responsibility and more willing and ready, in the right working environments, to give full effort, attention, creativity, and energy to helping achieve organizational goals (Weiss 2015). Her team was able to successfully launch several products to the business and she built very strong partnerships with the other business leaders. More importantly, she gained influence as a leader and many employees wanted to either work with her or get mentored by her. Her leadership style is one that I am trying to emulate as I continue to progress in breaking out of my

My name is Markeshia Rhone and, I was one of your students last semester. The reason why I am contacting you is to conduct an informational interview. I'm seeking information from professionals in the fashion and costume designing industry. I wanted to know if you could be part of it. It should only take about 15, minutes of your of time. I'm not seeking employment, or anything. I just would like to know what it is like to work in the industry?

The person who I conducted my informational interview was Chang Wang, Esq. I was acquainted with Mr. Chang Wang through a class he taught at the University of Minnesota. Professor Wang is a man of many professions; he is a lawyer, a professor, an actor and a writer. I could tell that he is extremely accomplished in his many careers through the list of schools he has taught at, awards he has received, the many licenses he’s obtained, and the number of publications he has authored. Because of his busy schedule, I contacted him a month before the interview to solidify a schedule with him. I requested half an hour of his time, but he was very generous and gave me over an hour of his company. I wanted to interview Mr. Wang for my assignment because I always wanted to pick his brain and learn more about what he did at Thomson Reuters. Aside from completing this assignment and getting to know more about his work, I also had a different agenda of ultimately requesting a letter of recommendation in the

According to CW4 Sweeney, this is strictly an informative interview IOT highlight the forward process and the initiative of transitioning the Camp Arifjan into the theater CIF by right-sizing the inventory in order to properly equip the Soldier (i.e. providing OCPs/Multi-cam stockage).

My leadership skills will help me achieve this jobs in a number of ways. Although My DISC results suggest I have strong dominate side, I think I tend to be a little reserved in my management style. I consider myself a compassionate person, but I do not let that trait stand in the way of being an effective leader.

The purpose of this interview was to gain more information about professional development, possible areas of opportunities, knowledge and skills required to be successful in the field of management. I interviewed Mr. Anand Palanisamy, Head of Business Operations for MyTaxFiler in Plano, Texas. The company operates in about seven locations in the United States. His educational qualifications include a Bachelor in Business Management and Masters in both Computer Application and Management Information System. He previously worked for Deloitte Consulting as Project Manager and traveled extensively.

“The trait theory of leadership, generally considered the first modern theory of leadership, became popular during the second half of the twentieth century and, despite scholarly criticism, has continued to be popular. The theory states that certain innate traits are common to leaders. Although the identified traits vary, the most common are intelligence, self confidence, determination, integrity, and sociability.” (Shriberg and Shriberg, 2009) the reason behind choosing this theory to be applied to my chosen leader is that I believe that the abovementioned traits are found in her. Moreover, trait theory remains prevalent today.

The majority of the courses I have taken during my experience, as a Human Development and Families studies major at the University of Rhode Island, have been completed strictly because it was a course requirement. However, Introduction to Counseling was a course I was looking forward to with the hopes of enhancing my interpersonal skills both my personally and professionally. I currently work as a Family Support Specialist at The Autism Project, helping to support families and professional whether it be to gain a better understand of Autism, develop strategies to implement at home or in the classroom, or even provide emotional support after a family has received a diagnosis or had a particularly challenging day.