Interview Process Paper

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

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

Alyssa is a teenage adolescent girl that was brought into the Juvenile Detention Center by the police. The case manager asks Alyssa to, please fill out the form in her office, so that she can assist Alyssa. She identifies that she likes to fight other teenagers on the intake

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.

CASA is a nonprofit that is based off of volunteer advocates who stand up for the well-being of abused and neglected children in the foster care system. The CASA volunteers are there to ensure that every foster child’s needs remain a priority in an overburdened child welfare system while searching for a safe and permanent home for the child.

Beginning the interview and skills/techniques used (empathy, rapport building, listening skills, closed-ended questions and open-ended questions, signs of client engagement)

• What is a case interview? The Case Interview • What specific skills does it assess? • How to prepare for a case interview? • An interactive example.

Over the past few days, I have spent a considerable amount of time on the phone with Public Relations professionals in the greater New York area. All of the PR professionals I talked to are in the pharmaceutical field. I choose this field because I find the health care industry very interesting, and I am specifically concerned with understanding how drugs enter the market.

When we were given this assignment I was very uneasy about talking to another person about personal matters. Let alone someone who I had never had a conversation with and was of a different race and ethnicity. My interviewee's name is Micheal. He considers himself black of African American descent. He is a black 36 yr old black male. Michael was born in San Bernardino, CA. He’s an educated and a professional male who works in college. He is the father of 2 boys, happily married. His wife is considered a white woman. Michael is the second from the oldest of about 9 children. He was raised by his aunt and uncle who he very happily calls, mom and dad. They had 2 adopted children when he was taken in and then they adopted 2 more after him. He smiles

Ms. Peters explained that strength-based therapy is used to help clients build positive qualities (C. Peters, personal communication, February 3, 2016). In application, the therapist helps the patient become aware of hidden strengths. The strength-based cognitive behavioral therapy (SBCBT) model can be used to develop positive human qualities like resilience, patience, . . . Patient-generated imagery and metaphors serve as powerful tools to remind the patient to employ the newly developed positive quality. Thus, it gives the patient the ability to cope and deploy their developed quality without referencing a problematic disorder like depression, anxiety, or anger issues. Therefore, it instills the strength to adapt and bounce back by using

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 stated throughout the paper Ms. Lira uses both cognitive behavioral therapy along with the strength-based approach to empower her clients and assist in providing

As a business major, I surround by numerous success stories from internet, magazines and visiting business professionals in different lectures. They all achieve a certain kind of success although they may have totally different background, organizational culture and management style. Therefore, it is hard for me to find the common point behind their successes. When I start to learn organizational behavior, I begin to understand how their successes connect to each other with the help of various concepts and theories. In order to further understand whether managers implement the concept in to a real work scenario, I interviewed Peng Liu,

In the hiring process an organization needs to find what they want. After an organization find out what they want, the next step is to get a pool of candidates; which would be apart of recruitment. Additionally, in the hiring process the organization must not let the pool go stale. In addition, in the hiring process there are several processes on selecting applicants. Once applicants are selected, an organization can do fast phone interviews to get closer to the final applicants.

I began my interview with my client, Jane Doe, by giving a brief structuring statement. I allotted an hour for our interview. For the first part of the interview I asked Jane for her basic information, her name, age, date of birth, parents name, siblings name, etc. I clarified my role and goals for the interview. I told the client that during the interview I would be asking some personal questions but mostly will be listening and that I would like to get a clear picture of her life. I assured the client that all personal information will be held in strictest confidence. After I explained my goals I started to ask her questions.