Interview Essay

Interview To work effectively in a culturally diverse environment, one must develop active listening. Active listening requires you to fully concentrate, understand, respond, engage, and remember. I chose to meet with my friend Ben for the cultural interview part of this paper. Ben is a 32-year-old, Licensed Massage Therapist from Owensboro, Kentucky. I met Ben approximately 10 years ago, in Evansville, Indiana, while we were both working for bank in the area. Ben is openly gay. At the time, he…

Who did you interview and why did you select this individual to interview? For the informational interview, I interviewed my mom, Beth Martens. The reason I chose my mom is because she is an elementary school teacher and has been for about 15 years. Throughout her years teaching, she has taught at two different schools with three different positions between those two schools. As a teacher, she has experienced many ups and downs, such as awards and principle changes, which have all shaped her to…

selects interview as the second method to generate the data. This paper, for that selection, deals with the second key research instruments, interview. Specifically, it explains and proposes a plan for carrying out interview for the research. The section starts with discussing the advantages of interview instrument. What follows after is a brief overview and discussion around the issue of critical dimension of interview. This review helps to provide guidelines for the deployment of interview in…

Date of Interview: Sunday, October 9, 2016 Center: Mount Pisgah Middle School Time of Interview: 6- 7:00 p.m. The teacher I chose to interview is one of friend’s mothers, Mrs. Lisa Foster, she has been teaching children for 18 years now. She has taught in public and private schools throughout her teaching career, including Shelby and Fayette County. Her teaching degree allows her to teach grades 4th – 12th and she is currently teaching 4th grade math. I wanted to interview Mrs.…

on a Friday inside the library. Before the interview, I was little nervous because I was not sure what to ask. I thought it was going to be awkward talking to someone about their life experience. Interviewing a peer about her life experience was a very unlike for me, because it was my first time ever interviewing someone else. It is easier to just talk to someone about their personal life than to ask them certain type of questions. Begging of the interview, we started our conversation with…

four-step interview process conducted at the scene of a crime with a witness. The first step is general basic questions such as "what happened?" or "what did you see or hear?" When the witness is answering these questions, the should be able to do so without interruption. Meaning, there should be no notes, audio recordings, or visual recordings at this time because notes slow down or interrupt a witness's concentration, and recordings also intimidate most witnesses and will not give a true…

Behavioral interviews ask you to describe stories in your past that exhibit the behaviors the interviewer is discussing. Behavioural interview is another method of interviewing where interviewers ask candidates to describe actual experiences they have had in dealing with specific job or related issues. Situational interviews look at the future. During a situational interview the interviewer describes a situation likely to arise on the job and asks the candidate what he or she would do in that…

Getting a job can be a life changer, but in order to be hired an interview must be conducted first. No matter how many times a person has been to a job interview it can be nerve-racking, but it doesn’t have to be. What a person does before and during an interview can make all the difference. Some steps a person can take to prepare for a successful interview is to be prepared for the interview, dress for success, make a good impression, ask questions, sell yourself, and close the deal. First…

Levashina, Hartwell Morgeson and Campion in 2014 have shown that structured interviews are better than unstructured interviews in predicting job applicant success (Swider, 2016). Even in a structured interview, interviewers can be unduly influenced by the unstructured section of the interview when the interviewer casually chats with the applicant (Swider, 2016). Swider’s research (2016) suggests that no part of the interview should be unstructured even if it means a less cordial interchange…

The leader that I chose to interview is a coworker of mine. Her name is Trina Ingalls and she is a registered nurse and also has her MSN/ED credentials. She works in the nursing department with me, her title is the Director of Nursing Clinical Lab. I had a lot of leaders within my department to interview whom of which are all registered nurses that specialize in different areas within the nursing profession. I’m am privileged to be able to work with each and every one of them and to learn from…