Profile Essay Interview

For my STU professor interview, I chose to interview my psychology professor Dr. Heidi Dempsey. Dr. Dempsey has worked at Jacksonville State University (JSU) for nine years and teaches several intro and specialty psychology courses, including Principles of Psychology, Honors Principles of Psychology, Social Psychology I, II, Human Sexuality, and Psychology of Emotion.

Humans are complex and intricate beings. We all feel, think, behave and look different. However, psychologists and researchers have been developing patterns in how experiences and processes shape the way we are and how we handle certain tasks. There are many variables that shape the way we learn and remember, our attitudes and personality, and what motivates us. To better understand these experiences and processes, I will compare the same characteristics of my own to a young girl named Jenny. We are both close in age, background, gender, race and circumstance.

*For the purpose of this assignment and to keep the privacy of participates, the interviewee will be addressed as such, or as Person A.

On this field exercise I conducted four interviews with people that I met in public spaces. The first three people I interview were in Bush Memorial Library. Their names were Tristan, Mohamed, and Alison. The fourth person I interviewed was Andrew who I met in Anderson center. Of these four people I recieved a few different answers to the assigned questions that I had asked, but the overall theme of the responses was fairly similar.

In order to have a better understanding of what exactly an individual in the helping profession does especially one who works with children; I decided to interview the Guidance Counselor and middle school student life coordinator Rebecca Louth at Saint Patrick’s Catholic School. Saint Patrick’s is a private Catholic school grade Pre-k through 8th. Before the interview I thought I had a good understanding of what the role a guidance counselor played within a school, but this interview helped me develop a better understanding of how a guidance counselor works. It also helped me understand how the staff and faculty at a school (specifically a private school) work; their day to day tasks.

A personal interview with Patricia revealed first-hand information about her experience as a college student from an immigrant family that allowed deeper insight that could not have been learned from a study of statistical research. The following are some of her interview responses. When asked whether she identified more as Panamanian or American, Patricia said,

“The Meeting” The room is silent other than the steady hum of the air conditioner. Businessmen and location supervisors all sit around a large rectangular table, waiting for the man in charge. There is a projector screen at the head of the table with an opening slide displayed. It reads “Monthly Safety meeting” in plain black text on a white background. A few of the men lean back in their chairs and relax. Two start a casual conversation. Even in the silence of the room I cannot understand them because they are mumbling so quietly. It’s an early Monday morning, and everyone is still a little drowsy from the weekend.

For my interview, I interviewed Mr. Mercado, he is from the X generation, and made made some very good points. He compared our genration (millennials, also known as generation Y), to his generation (genration X.)

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).

Aloha my name is Tammy Lynn Ross and I am from the island of Molokai, in all truth I really didn’t know where I wanted to do my practicum or where to start in fulfilling the requirements for this class. I applied for a job with the Consuelo foundation and was interviewed for the position as a community outreach educator, but missed getting hired as another candidate was chosen. It was a disappointing day for me really however; that day the light bulb clicked on and I saw that a window of opportunity had presented itself as I still did not have a host site to do my practicum. Fortunately I still had Consuelo Foundations contact person and emailed them right away. I talked to them about bringing me on as an intern and I was accepted. Being that I didn’t get the position but was still interested in doing the work, I choose to do my practicum with the Consuelo

Introduction For this assignment, I interviewed two human resource professionals, Ms. Cathy Price and Mr. Richard Newman. I previously worked with Ms. Price as her understudy for three years. I appreciated the education and work lessons she provided and often utilize the skills and abilities gained from the experience. I chose to interview Mr. Newman specifically because he practices human resources in a hospital setting, as it is my intent to seek employment within the healthcare industry following graduation from my Master’s program. This interview comparison offers an interesting perspective of where my career has been to where I hope to target in the near future.

I interviewed two male college students here at Missouri State University who are homosexual. With us being in such a transitional time as a country on our perspectives of the LGBTQ community I was curious to know what their experiences have been.

The first set of questions that I am going to ask you are just some general questions about your community. Your community can be defined however you like it, there is no right or wrong definition here. My first question is, what do you like most about your community?

The spokesperson is the CEO because he is the best person to handle each question because of the company, in this case the CEO is required since the journalist is going to ask about the company culture and sensitive questions.

During the course of her interview on The Wendy Williams Show, with Wendy Williams, Lolo Jones explains how she uses her past failures as motivation to achieve her dreams. Through everything she has been through, Lolo never quit. She never took the easy way out and always kept her eye on her dream. Her story is “not complete.” (qtd. in Rashaad Jorden) and in this interview it is clear that she is continuing to focus on the opportunities in front of her. Lolo Jones is not just an inspiration to track athletes; she is a role model to different types of athlete and non-athletes. Many people with various backgrounds, can relate to her and use her as an example in their own lives. As a professional athlete,