Career Autobiography Case Study For the purpose of this case study assignment, the person that I chose to interview was my own mother. My mother’s name is Jenny. She was born in Rock Springs, Wyoming in 1942. I chose to interview my mother because she is a generation prior to my own and I was curious as to how people went about and succeeded in pursuing their career choices prior to my own. I pondered on these questions prior to my interview with her. I realize how much society has changed and how far technology has come between the years of our two generations. My mother didn’t have the tools that we have today to explore career opportunities. There was no internet to job search, no GPS technology to navigate her way to job interviews, and
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My supervisors, especially those at Hughes Aircraft and TRW, encouraged me to gain more knowledge and continue my education.” She went on to say that “I have always been thankful for what God has blessed me with and for the coworkers and supervisors that He placed in my path. The only bad experience that I had was with my supervisor ‘Juan’ at the Armored Group. He was a very bossy man who looked down on people.” She says that she never experienced any racial or gender discrimination while employed and that the only thing that bothered her, culturally speaking, was the fact that the U.S. government catered to the Vietnamese after the Vietnam War buy handing them jobs without being qualified and social security benefits without working a day in the U.S. She thought that this was wrong. My mother has since retired, but continues to work hard around the house. She is very happy and active within our family and church. She is loved very much as the matriarch of three generations. I administered the Career Key Assessment to my mother and her Personality Types Score was Social with a score of 13 and following in a close second, was the social score of Enterprising with a score of 10. I asked my mother if she would find these types of tools useful and if she would consider using them during the years she was employed. Her response was “Yes, as long as I was being helped by a competent career counselor who would help lead me in the right direction; someone like
My supervisors, especially those at Hughes Aircraft and TRW, encouraged me to gain more knowledge and continue my education.” She went on to say that “I have always been thankful for what God has blessed me with and for the coworkers and supervisors that He placed in my path. The only bad experience that I had was with my supervisor ‘Juan’ at the Armored Group. He was a very bossy man who looked down on people.” She says that she never experienced any racial or gender discrimination while employed and that the only thing that bothered her, culturally speaking, was the fact that the U.S. government catered to the Vietnamese after the Vietnam War buy handing them jobs without being qualified and social security benefits without working a day in the U.S. She thought that this was wrong. My mother has since retired, but continues to work hard around the house. She is very happy and active within our family and church. She is loved very much as the matriarch of three generations. I administered the Career Key Assessment to my mother and her Personality Types Score was Social with a score of 13 and following in a close second, was the social score of Enterprising with a score of 10. I asked my mother if she would find these types of tools useful and if she would consider using them during the years she was employed. Her response was “Yes, as long as I was being helped by a competent career counselor who would help lead me in the right direction; someone like