Workplace Interviews

After conducting interviews on four different experienced workers, I came to be very interested by my findings. I noticed several different theories that could be used with the workers that I chose to interview. After interviewing two male football coaches, a retiree and a ten-year elementary teacher, I not only realized that multiple theories can be used on one person. I also realized that most of my associates are in the same field of work and the same personality styles. The first person I interviewed was my co-worker Jerry Elledge. Jerry is currently a History teacher and a football coach. When asking Jerry about his career development I realized that Jerry did things within the same field and they were mainly based on his particular personalities and that represent their …show more content…
Colin Merritt began to tell me about his career development and I immediately saw a difference between the two. After interviewing Colin, I personally believe he is misplaced as a teacher. When looking at Parsons and Williamson's trait and factor theory I studied the individual, surveyed his occupations and his current career does not in my opinion match. Colin began his career development doing sales and marketing. He began working at Holister in high school as a sales associate. Then he went on to work for cut-co doing knife sales, he worked as a personal assistant, and then once again doing sales and retail and marketing before deciding on becoming a teacher. When asked, Colin revealed his career decision was based on his desire to coach football. I see this as an example of the Person- Environment Correspondence Counseling because of Dawis's and Lofquist's key point: “individual needs are most important in determining an individual's fit into work environment”. His desire to coach and his communication abilities gained while doing sales along with the marketing experienced led him to pursue a career in