Informational Interview
For this assignment, I chose to conduct an informational interview with Claudia Romo, a Career Technical Education (CTE) Counselor at Rio Hondo College. The reason I chose to interview a CTE counselor was to learn more about the CTE Counseling and how different the student-counselor interactions are to general academic counselors. The informational interview provided me with a different lens in viewing community college as I discovered the different counseling objectives CTE counselors have to general counselors. These counseling objectives range from longer counseling sessions, direct employer interactions, job site field trips, and career related workshops.
Career Related Goals
According to Claudia, counselors mediate between many employers and best prepare students to the workforce as opposed to general counseling in which the workforce is a distant future for students. I found it insightful to discover that CTE counselors keep close relationships with local employers to better advise and inform students on how to approach work-school balance. The contacts with employers Claudia creates not only benefits her in becoming better informed to advise students but it allows her to construct a helpful social network.
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For example, Claudia mentioned how she conducted workshops in collaboration with the field of transportation employers on how to navigate an interview and salary negotiation. Though some of the material is applicable to any student, I found it interesting to discover the differences within the field of transportation when it came preparing for an interview, such as the difference in attire, vocabulary, and research student needs to
For this assignment, I chose to conduct an informational interview with Claudia Romo, a Career Technical Education (CTE) Counselor at Rio Hondo College. The reason I chose to interview a CTE counselor was to learn more about the CTE Counseling and how different the student-counselor interactions are to general academic counselors. The informational interview provided me with a different lens in viewing community college as I discovered the different counseling objectives CTE counselors have to general counselors. These counseling objectives range from longer counseling sessions, direct employer interactions, job site field trips, and career related workshops.
Career Related Goals
According to Claudia, counselors mediate between many employers and best prepare students to the workforce as opposed to general counseling in which the workforce is a distant future for students. I found it insightful to discover that CTE counselors keep close relationships with local employers to better advise and inform students on how to approach work-school balance. The contacts with employers Claudia creates not only benefits her in becoming better informed to advise students but it allows her to construct a helpful social network.
Social Network …show more content…
For example, Claudia mentioned how she conducted workshops in collaboration with the field of transportation employers on how to navigate an interview and salary negotiation. Though some of the material is applicable to any student, I found it interesting to discover the differences within the field of transportation when it came preparing for an interview, such as the difference in attire, vocabulary, and research student needs to