Hello,
I am taking a career exploration class for university and am in need of a cnc operator who is willing to fill out a career survey. I thought I had a friend I would be able to ask and so put this off until today (it is due tommorow) so hopefully someone wouldn't mind helping me out. For expediency sake, I will ask all the questiones here (if you don't feel like answering a particular question, please feel free to say). My e-mail address is "mrdaddymckay at yahoo.ca" or if you feel more comfortable with a phone interview e-mail me and I will call you. Thanks
Name:
CAREER INTERVIEW #1 of #3
A. Career
B. Person Interviewed Date
C. Position of Person Interviewed
D. Telephone number and address of person Interviewed
Phone ( ) Address
Street City State Zip
E. The following questions are to guide you in your interviews. Record the answers given:
1. How did you decide to what you are doing now ?
2. What do you do during a typical day ?
3. What do you like most about your job ?
4. What are the disadvantages of your work ?
5. What was it like to work at your job when you first began ?
6. What is it like to work at your job after years of experience ?
7. How does your job affect your life-style (family life, leisure time, social life, vacations, material possessions,
personal happiness, etc.) ?
8. What opportunities exist for advancement in terms of money, responsibility or personal growth ?
9. What type of training is best for this job ?
10. How do people find out about openings in this work ?
11. If you were to hire someone to do your job, what qualifications would you look for ?
12. What are some related jobs that you could do with your training ?
13. If you had to do it over, would you make the same career choice? Why ?
you need to cut thru the chase not waiste your time or his , i ve been to interviews where the guys trying to get into my psyche , that is BS ,and ive never returned their calls , you have to understand that overall we are a beast of our own , find out what his merritts are and leave it at that , face value and experience talk , the rest is BS
I went thru these exact same questions during an exit interview nearly 8 years ago - and this is for a college course being taught TODAY??? Are you serious??? This is a joke, no???
Tom Peters (author of "In Search of Excellence", written years ago) was clearly right during a speach he gave to an MBA course he was teaching to executives over 25 years ago!!!!
Namely, he contention then was, 'Take the money you spend on your advance college education degree, lose it all on a failed business venture, you'll learn more than they'll teach you in college - ANY college'.
Interestingly, the company where I took that exit interview, just indicated that they did a market survey of the equivalent jobs in their job market. Yet they were asking the exact same questions of me when I was leaving.
Since I already told them what my new job was and who I was working for, they should already have known the answers to most of their questions. Either they lied to me or they didn't even take the time to even THINK about whether their questions had any relevancy. She was trying to fill in the answers to these same questions on the page before her too.
The women in personnel was nearly in tears after the "exit interview" as she couldn't undestand why I was "so hostile towards her".
DUH, if you did in fact survey the market to see how your jobs rated in pay and benefits to other equivalent jobs. You should already KNOW the answers to most of the questions you are asking. Instead of calling in the HR Executive and having a serious "inteview", she merely tried to fill in the answers to the SAME questions you're asking now 8 year later. Surely you jest???
This is classic "personnel department speak". They try to make a job checklist to pigeon hole the person and their skills instead of seeing if they are a trained individual. "Human relations????", hardly.
Essentially, this is a personnel dept's way of finding the cheapest person who can fog the mirror they hold under the nose of an applicant to see if they can sit in the chair and do the task associated therewith that they are trying to fill.
Re: question 12= a trained engineer who's taken business electives in college who has also received supplemental training as a machinist and who is ran the day to day operations of a small business and met weekly payroll can EASILY do the CEO's job of many companies.
But the CEO can't design didly or solve even rudimentary problems on a engineer's or a machinists exam or meet a weekly payroll???. Makes you wonder why so many companies are floundering anymore don't it???
Too many MBA's who MBWA (manage by wandering around) instead of being able to solve business problems via the scientific method.
Do you REALLY want to match wits in an "interview"??? If so, GOYA and contact me. Don't know how??? Your college is doing an inordinately bad job.
The answer to your last question: 20 minutes, tops.