Enhanced interrogation techniques

On Wednesday, March 7th, I took place in an interview with the Sacramento County Public Defender’s Office. There were three interviewers that conducted this interview, over Facetime, this afternoon at 3:39 pm, which were Debra, Steve and Peter. The interview process began with Peter Inouye, in which he introduced the other interviewers and then began the interview questions by asking me to introduce myself. In response, I let them know that I was a senior at the University of California, Irvine…

When I first heard about this assignment I had mixed emotions, I felt nervous, anxious and I kept obsessing over who I might have as my mentor. I felt this way because I kept on thinking who is this person I will have as my mentor who will I have to interview. I was stepping out of my comfort zone by talking to someone I never met or knew. My beliefs on reading and writing in the field before I did the interview was that I knew that reading was involved with the interview and writing also but I…

The difficult task about this assignment was to find a social worker that would allow me an opportunity to walk in their shoes. Conducting this interview in my opinion was a two head sword, for me it gave insight into a career path defines dignity and respect of the elderly and for the social worker it gave an opportunity for her to share in her shoes. I was relaxed in this interview because I wanted to learn without interrupting with my own experience of shadowing other social workers. I know…

An Interview of Your Choice For this interview I used my husband, Benjamin Tamate Toimoana, as my client. Before starting the interview, I compiled a list of questions that I could ask for general purposes to get more information about my client. I also made sure to review the ethics code of The American Counseling Association for 2014, and I was able to make sure that everything I did with this interview was ethical. The questions that I used in my interview I found in my own opinion to…

3.5 Semi-Structured Interviews An interview is basically a verbal conversation between two people with the aim of collecting relevant data for the purpose of research. According to McNamara (1999), interviews are particularly useful for acquiring the story behind a participant’s experiences while the interviewer can pursue in depth information around the topic. Besides, there are underlying assumptions that that the non-verbal acts are more real and basic while the verbal acts are epiphenomenal…

1) Discuss your level of preparations for this mock interview—what you did, or perhaps what you could have done, to prepare better? STEPS TAKEN TO PREPARE FOR THE INTERVIEW: Reviewing the questions and Dressing for success: I briefly reviewed all my interview questions. I created a list about all my accomplishments on my previous job, my strengths, and my weaknesses. Before doing the final mock interview I practice answering questions. I made sure that I dress appropriately for my mock interview…

The journal describes how selection process can be improved using a structured interview, and also asses the many way an interview can be structured. In addition, it’s important to mention the article have evaluated the structure or the standardization of interview and divided them into two particular categories; first through what influence the subject matter of the of a particular interview, and second by the process of evaluation of the information received within a given interview. The…

The next article that will be critically examined comes from an academic who focuses her work on qualitative research methodology in a variety of disciplines, including anthropology. Kathryn Roulston’s article titled Considering Quality in Qualitative Interviewing looks at how the quality of interviews conducted by people in the field affect the outcome of the work that follows the research process. As well, she also illustrates the flack that researchers receive sometimes from their…

For the peer reflection project, I interviewed Alexis Dowdell about the time her family adopted her cousin, Rochell. I thought this process was very interesting. Interviewing someone I never spoke to before was new. Even though this was a different experience, I was not nervous or overthinking about the right approach. I felt the right approach to interview Alexis was to be myself. We were both going through the same process, so I knew how it felt being interviewed. I also felt this process was…

Research Reflections: For me, conducting and taking part in interviews has always been a stressful affair. Whether it was for a position on band leadership, part of joining a program, or for one of my classes, interviewing has never been an activity I was confident with. However, while conducting the interviews for this project, it was much more open and much less stressful. Whether it was because I controlled the interview questions, or whether it was because I knew them, I didn’t feel the same…