Informational Interview Research Paper

What do you consider to be your most important accomplishments on the job since your last review?

Task 6 - Analyse how work experience can provide support in gaining a realistic understanding of the engineering sector – job roles, skills, travel, salary, colleagues, personnel, expectations, management etc.

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.

The Human Services Informational Interview was conducted on the phone I interviewed Tara Dakolios. She started in the Human Services field with a Master degree in Education from Virginia College and started working at the Hilton head Preparatory School. After working there for years she missed doing education and had an opportunity with the University of South Carolina Beaufort as an advisor. Before being in the Human Services Field she wasn’t aware of it being declared a major and knew she always had a passion for helping people. The skills utilized in the Human Services Field are being adaptive, organized, multi-tasking and time management. College help prepare her for the field in many aspects such as being a basketball coach and assisting

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 my Success Interview, I questioned Nicole Pha. An escrow assistant at First American Title and a first-generation refugee who escaped from the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia to settle in America at the young age of 4 with her family. They had fled in the middle of the night with no belongs from their village for fear of death and slavery. Her family was originally given asylum in Baltimore and after getting settled, they moved to California to restart their lives. Mrs. Pha is now working as an escrow assistant for First American Title in Orange County making a six-figure salary while supporting her husband and two children. During my interview with Mrs. Pha, I examined the 4 core reoccurring themes of her success: Success isn’t success, sacrifice

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

For college students, perhaps the most difficult decision they will be forced to make is what occupation to pursue. Picking a particular career from the thousands available can seem impossible at times. According to the University of La Verne, 50%-70% of students change their major at least one time during their academic career. Informational interviews are an excellent way of learning about a particular job from someone with first-hand experience.

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For my interview paper, I decided to talk to my neighbor Rebecca Schwartz, who I have known for 14 years. I decided to interview her because she was an early education teacher for infants and toddlers and has experience working with an entire classroom of students with disabilities as well as experience working with a classroom with only one student with a disability. I wanted to gain insight on her experiences teaching a classroom with only one student with a disability, while the remaining classroom was non-disabled students. I would like to talk about Tyler, a deaf student with Down syndrome, and Rebecca’s experience working with him.

As time goes by, the labor market has undergone a big change. In the past, employers had been looking for employees who were knowledgeable with quality education while nowadays being knowledgeable and enjoying quality education are no longer sufficient to get a decent job anymore. Employees are required to master skills helpful and useful for their career. Because the basic qualifications for workers have been changed, colleges should put more focus on teaching students skills in order to help them achieve success in the later career after graduation. There are some important skills that are supposed to be taught in colleges, such as specialized skills and industry specific

My first informational interview was with Mr. Karren, I call him this because he was a teacher for me in high school. He taught the law and leadership development institute program I was a part of as a law student at University of Toledo. As soon as I arrived in D.C. I contacted him and asked if he had time to catch up. He had always been a mentor for me and was always willing to write recommendation letters to employers and scholarship committees. We met at Ted’s Bulletin and began to catch up. He was the first of many people to tell me not to go to law school. I told him how nervous I was to be in D.C. The greatest advice he gave me was to just soak everything up. He told me D.C. was unlike any other city and you meet people here and have

The person I chose to interview for this assignment was Anita Donald she is currently a Catalogue Technician at the Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library. Recently Bradford has created a new strategic plan where they can begin transforming themselves in the next five years into a place where the “Community can gather”. They, like other Libraries are also moving into new trends and are merging their reference and circulation departments to better serve their patrons to become a non-traditional library.

My interviewee was a Chinese entrepreneur. He currently worked at Tencent Holdings Limited in China. During the interview, he told me that in order to be successful in the business world, I needed to catch any opportunities and use them. Although some opportunities were not perfect, I should not underestimate their potential because some imperfections might have larger possibilities to be successful.