Interviewer Manager Interview

The entrepreneur I interviewed was, Dehra Battle. She is the owner and stylist at Hair Savvy Hair and Nail Salon. The salon opened up on the Spring of 2010. I have known Dehra for the past 10 years. She has been my personal hair stylist for the last 10 years. Being a close family friend, I have witnessed her trials and tribulations with being an entrepreneur. I choose Dehra, because she is a wonderful and hard working woman; she has a passion for helping others with self esteem by creating signature styles that will give any woman the confidence. Dehra was not satisfied with working under a salon owner who was not concerned about the workers safety and customer satisfaction. She wanted to be in control and create an environment that customers would love to attend regularly.

He approaches new business positively because new business means more boat lines and a broader spectrum of boats to sell. The broader the type of boats he has the more customers he can reach and eventually sell more boats. As a leader he led by example with a never say die attitude that he believe would wear off on his employees. In order to motivate his employees he would have them set goals and reward them if they reached the goal. He said, “Money is a motivator” (Joe Malich, personal conversation, December 1, 2015). This relates directly to the power and politics chapter. My dad uses reward power to motivate and get the best results out of his employees. Since most of his employees are in sales the more they sell the more money they make for the company as well as themselves. Motivation and the need to make a lot of money are key factors in the hiring process. He says, “When hiring a salesperson I want to hear them say that they need to make $10,000 a month.” For example, he interviewed a guy named Tucker for a sales position and when Tucker said he needed to make $15,000 to $20,000 dollars a month and that he will make my dad a lot more money than that he was practically hired on the spot. The key point is that as a leader my dad saw money and motivation as something that is related. If someone isn’t motivated to make money they won’t make

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

I am writing to tell you of the many fine qualities of Eric Ovalle, whom I have known for more than 3 years. In this time that have Known Eric Ovalle I have come to see that he is tirelessly hard working, kind and dedicated individual in both his personal and educational life. Eric Ovalle is about to graduate from the University of Houston-Downtown next semester and I can assure you that he will be a great contribution to your company.

When he was just 10-years old he was sent to live with family friends who had lived in Baltimore, Maryland. He had become a shoemaker’s apprentice but, he disliked the work and he decided to return to his family. Like his father, he had taken up barbering, but he uptimely decided to pursue his education. He worked as an apprentice with Dr. Henry Palmer, a highly accomplished surgeon, and then completed further training at Chicago Medical College.

Dan is the store manager of Wal-Mart in Willmar, Minnesota; He has been with them for 10 years. Dan's duties consist of befriending some 150+ workers, going through documents and papers, check over the day to day operations, make sure the store resides in a clean and orderly manner, dealing with customers and employees, delegate, and also get feedback from employees

The entrepreneur I chose to interview is Michael Gordon. Mr. Gordon is the owner of Mike’s Auto Recycling in Inkster, MI, a suburb of Detroit, MI. He is also my uncle and father figure.

I appreciated the fact that he identified specific details about himself that he incorporates within his field. The reason why I wanted to speak to Mr. Sanchez was because of his experience in the engineering field and I want to possibly become a Biomedical Engineer. Additional questions I asked him were skills that he would require from a person that is applying for a Mechanical Engineering job. He requires a future Mechanical Engineer to be a team worker, not be content with stagnation, and also have a positive personality. The meeting took place outside of a Hungry Howies restaurant; we decided to sit down in the outside-designated seating area in the Killeran Shopping Center Plaza. The meeting actually went great because I expected for me to not learn much about myself. I first expected to just write down information about a person, but in all actuality I had a lot of fun interviewing Mr. Pablito. The moment he told me that he first wanted to become a teacher but found his love for mathematics and engineering I knew that this interview was designed to teach

I had done an interview with him before, intending to get a job there at byusportstv. I got to know Ben, and had emailed him about doing this interview. He was quick to respond and willing to be interviewed. I chose to interview Ben Bagley, because he has many years of experience in the field and is looking to help students here at BYU start off in this career. I felt comfortable interviewing him because he was so glad to do it and happy to help. He even had me take part in seeing how Sports Nation was done. I was able to view the job live on site. It was a great experience and I am looking forward to pursue my career in sports broadcasting.

Today at 4:00pm, I met with Sean McGowan. Also present was Tim Dunlap and Chris Schwartz.

I interviewed one of my friend who works at Nando’s Restaurant as Assistant Manager. On daily basis, she uses 2-3 spreadsheets and around 5 for a month. As per her information, they schedule their staff weekly basis and spreadsheet is the best way for scheduling. Secondly, it is used for recording inventory as well as ordering stuff (grocery, furniture, silverware, chemicals and so on…). Third, they keep track of sales and expenses separately from actual bookkeeping. The reason she said is that they want to be ready for any question from head office (owner) and helps them to keep on track. Fourthly, they use spreadsheet for clock in and out for employees where they keep record of on daily basis. There is nothing complex because they use very

His first takeaway is from his time running a corner deli store. Though up against big competition such as 7’eleven, he learned that “the little ones have to do what the big ones can’t do or choose not to do.” He made the initiative to make deals with distributors based on trust alone. He also started to practice communicating and appealing to target market. His one tricky market of teenagers, which was leaning more towards 7’eleven, was easily recruited by providing good food and video games which the teens respected compared to

This assignment to interview my management came at the right time in my career. I say that because we have a new Executive Director who started back in March of this year so this assignment gave me the opportunity to open up a door of conversation with her and get a sneak preview of her goals and vision for our department. I currently, work for Kaiser Permanente which is a regionally operated company that provides health care services. We have over 800 employees in this region alone. I have been with the company over 25 years so I have been under several managers and directors doing this time but this is the first time I was able to sit down with one of them to understand their role. In this assignment we were ask to ask several questions to get a better understanding of our manager role and responsibilities. I interviewed my Executive Director who manages the Employer Services of our company. This area is a major department in the company because we handle the enrollment of our members and the collections of the revenue for our company. She manages a team of seven combinations of managers, directors and individual contributors. Her team has a total of sixty-six employees. As the interview started I ask her some of the questions for the list. One of the questions that I asked her was in her opinion “what are top three qualities all good manager have in common?” Her response was “Be a strong leader (influential and tough when needed), execute and deliver, and foster

prosperity; he wants to retrieve the love and respect of his family and the self-

Eric Borden- O/S Sales Rep (Training Manager)- He is self-disciplined to ensure that he is always current with new development and in compliance with regulations. His success in leading the company to financial growth shows that he is able to plan, organize, and execute successfully. Furthermore, he can communicate successfully internally with co-workers and externally with customers. He has the potential and possibility of being a Training