Interview Questions

Thank you and nice job to all of you who submitted questions.

ASSIGNMENT

Select someone at your internship to interview. 

Arrange a time and place that you can conduct the interview. 

It is a good idea to give the questions you are asking to the interviewee (the person you are going to interview) in advance.

Please use the list of questions below when interviewing your mentor. Select at least 12 or more of these questions to ask the interviewee. You may use all of them if you wish. Again, it would be good to give the interviewee the questions in advance.

Record the answers during the interview and then type the questions and answers into a post titled Interview.

Questions

1. What is your full name?

2. Where are you from?

3. Where did you go to college? For how long? Do you plan to go back to school?

4. (If the interviewee went to college)…What was your major in college and what kind of degree do you earn?

5. Why did you choose that field?

6. What got you involved in this field of work? What inspired you to do it?

7. Why did you choose this job?

8. How long have you worked here?

9. What is your job title?

10. What do your duties include? Or What kinds of work does your job involve?

11. What are some of the challenges you have faced working here?

12. What is the best part of your job?

13. What is something you would like to change about your job?

14. Did you work somewhere else before this job? Where? For how long? How was that similar/different?

15. What do you see as your future with this company?

16. Do you enjoy the kind of work you do?

17. Do you plan to open your own business one day?

18. How has having an intern helped your company or organization advance or progress?

19. What advice would you give to high school-aged interns (such as myself) getting ready for college and then the real world?

Try Trying

This is not an assignment post. This is to help clarify the previous assignment post. A few comments have come in expressing confusion about what exactly it is you are supposed to do for the assignments.


The daily post synthesis is pretty straight-forward. Don't do 8 daily posts. Do one post that lists two tasks you do this week that you have done before and two things that are new.


The interview: you are going to interview someone.
-Who do you want to interview?

-What do you already know about that person? (their name, where they are from, how old they are, what their job is...)

-What do you want to know about that person? (how they got their job, where they went to school, how long they were in school...)


The floor plan:
Draw a diagram of how your entire office looks: where the rooms are, walls, and doors on your floor, not the whole building.

Draw another diagram of your work space, or your desk.

For example, if I gave this assignment to Mr. Carlos, he would draw a diagram of the entire first floor of our school building: the rooms, walls, hallways, and doors. And he would draw another "zoomed in" picture of his desk and chair, the copier, Ms. Joan's desk, Mr. Lurick's desk, the front desk, etc.


I want you to get started on this ASAP. I think you know how to do it. Don't wait until Friday or next week to start. You won't have enough time.

ASSIGNMENTS: The week after Spring Break

Hello,

I trust everyone had a good Spring Break. Now we enter the final stretch.

What are we doing this week?

ASSIGNMENT Daily post synthesis

I have seen many repetitive posts for the daily posts and feel like we all need a break in that routine. Rather than doing a daily post every day for the next two weeks, I want you to write one post that includes the following:

-List two same old things, things you do this week that you have done before

Also

-List two new "things"; things you have never done before at your internship

What is a thing? tasks, projects, activities, duties, internship related work-type functions


Only make one post, not several daily posts and use the following template for this assignment.

FOR YOUR BLOG

OLD:

OLD:

NEW:

NEW:



ASSIGNMENT Pre - Interview Thinking

You are going to interview someone at your internship. It can be your mentor or another co-worker as long as it is not another intern. Who will that be?

Answer these two questions:

FOR YOUR BLOG

-What do I know about this person?

-What do I want to know about this person?





ASSIGNMENT Floor Plan

You are to draw a floor plan of the physical space of your internship working area. Confused?

The floor plan shows the size and location of the walls and doors in a generic space. Use google images. Search keyword: floor plan. Also try office floor plan, house floor plan, hospital floor plan, etc.

In your floor plan, also include a separate "blow up" drawing of your personal space or area. For example, if you work in an office you probably have some chair that you sit in regularly. I want to zoom in on that spot and see what is in the immediate vicinity of that chair?

In other words what is around you? A desk, lamp, paper pile, phone, waste basket, picture, other chairs, someone else's desk, books, and so on and so on...

Q: HOW DO I DO THIS IN MY BLOG?

A: You don't. Draw the total area floor plan on one regular sized sheet of paper. Draw the "blow up" floor plan on another.




NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW Mr. Andrew, that is way more than we can do in a week.

You are right.

ASSIGNMENTS DUE: Friday May 9, 11:59 P.M.

Weekly Vocab and Daily Posts

Assignment:

Daily Posts April 14-April 17

Weekly Vocabulary April 18

Please complete daily posts and weekly vocabulary (5 words) for this week. Be sure to copy the form for weekly vocab from the earlier post.

3rd Marking Period Blog Posts

The work you did in the 3rd marking period will be used in the 4th marking to complete the final projects.

You need to complete this work if you have not done so.  It will hurt your final semester grade if the work is not completed.

Midpoint Reflection Questions

This is the midway point of the semester and your internships.

You do not have to do Daily Posts or Weekly Vocabulary for this week April 7 - April 11!

...unless you want to for extra credit.

Assignment: 

I would like you to use the following questions to guide you in creating a post reflecting on and analyzing your experience up to this point.  Due Date:  Sunday April 13, 11:59 P.M.

Please copy, paste, and respond to the following questions 

FOR YOUR BLOG

How has the internship been the same as and/or different than your expectations?  

What is similar and different about the culture of the school environment versus the workplace environment?  What new skills have you learned that apply to the workplace?

What kind of relationship do you have with your mentor and co-workers?  How have you grown as a result of interacting with professional adults?

What challenges at the internship have you faced that you have overcome and how did you overcome them?

What challenges have you faced in school as a result of the altered schedule and how are you handling them?

What goals are you working to accomplish during the remainder of the internship?

What new things have you learned about New York City?

ASSIGNMENTS DUE

The last day of the marking period is today!

I need you to be finished with your work as soon as possible!

Now, that being said, grades are not due until next Friday, so there is a little bit of a window for you to get late assignments completed.  But I refuse to stay up late on Thursday reading blogs so that you can get as much credit as possible.  If you post an assignment late next week, or try to do some last minute extra credit, it is unlikely that I will get to it.

To be safe, get everything done by the end of Sunday.  I will definitely see it and give you credit for it if it is in by Sunday.

Good luck!