I had a great opportunity to interview a beautiful paralegal inner and outer with a humble personality. Her name is Autumn Virgadamo who is originally from Dallas, Texas. She has been living in Northern California for approximately two years. She works for Hunton & Williams which is a major international law corporation out the San Francisco, California office. She was eager to allow me interview her and I would like to share her interview with you.
I couldn’t wait to meet her in person at my orientation. When orientation came and I finally got to meet her, I was in for a pleasant start to my college career. She assigned me and all of her other advisees a project in
1. Describe the problem as told by a health care professional For this interview project, I chose to interview Dr. Shawn Fagan, MD. He is a burn surgeon and intensivist for the Joseph M. Still Burn Center at Doctors Hospital in Augusta. Dr. Fagan has is board certified in both surgery and surgical critical care by the American Board of Surgery. He has participated in numerous studies in the area of exfoliative and necrotizing diseases of the skin.
On June 15, 2016, I conducted my interview with Roya Kamalzadeh. The interview was a fun and an interesting look into my co-worker and friend’s psyche. My original plan was to conduct the interview at Beatley Library, a library close to my home. I realized that the library would not be the best place to conduct the interview, because there were no private rooms in the library and I did not want to be interpreted with loud noises. For the previously stated reason I thought that neither of our homes would be an ideal location, so we did the interview in her car in the parking lot.
As a Human Service major what better way to learn more about the profession than from someone who has experience in the field. I chose to interview a friend of mine, Florence Martus. Mrs. Martus is employed through the city of Fredericksburg, VA with the Department of Social Services. This agency is located at 608 Jackson St, Suite 100 Fredericksburg, VA 22401. Virginia Department of Social Services provides many services to the public such as, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Medicaid, Adoption, Child Care Assistance, Refugee Resettlement Service, and Child and Adult Protective Services.
The block before the interview was when I finally checked my questions. They weren 't there, and I was freaking out. Luckily, a good friend of mine let me borrow his questions. Finding Grace wasn 't very hard when she stepped into the crew room, and I already knew that we were paired up, so we just got right to work.
Field Experience: Interview Rationale: I chose to interview my grandfather about his experience being the primary care-taker for my grandmother since she had a stroke roughly two years and eight months ago. The reason why I chose to do this is because while I’ve talked to my grandmother about her experience many times, I have never spoken to my grandfather about what it is like to be in the position in which he is. I have had experience with stroke survivors before after I had volunteered with the speech therapy department at a rehabilitation facility in Harrisburg, PA, but I was interested to see what it is like for the people who take care of these individuals. I imagined it is hard for my grandfather; however I learned a lot about his duties
Introduction Motivational interviewing is a collaborative, person-centred form of communication which focuses on the language of change. ‘It is designed to strengthen personal motivation for and commitment to a specific goal by eliciting and exploring the person’s own reasons for change within an atmosphere of acceptance and compassion’ (Miller et al., 2013, p.29). The technique of motivational interviewing was developed by two psychologists, Bill Miller and Steve Rollnick. Motivational interviewing is therapeutic to patients as it is based on a partnership, rather than a nurse-patient relationship (Heckman et al., 2010). There are four processes of motivational interviewing; engaging, focusing, evoking and planning.
We would come up with connections, she happened to know a family from the town I grew up in whom I also knew, and we talked about how she knew them. She tried to make a connection with each of us, which was amazing. It didn’t feel like an interview at
Why did you choose that agency and the relevance for your future clients? Being an active duty military spouse, the military lifestyle has become a large part of my identity and I belong within the military community. Working for the Airman and Family Readiness Center as a Social Worker is very much a “calling” for me. When I was a new spouse without a support system, the stresses related to the military were much more than I ever imagined. Now that I am a seasoned spouse who will soon earn her MSW, I really want to be there for the new military members at the best of my abilities.
I learned many things at InstaCareer that will assist me in preparing for a career fair or networking event. One thing I learned is to wear either a suit, or the equivalent of a suit without the jacket. This will make me look more professional, and marketable to potential employers. Another thing I learned is it is better to have a professional looking portfolio to carry my resumes around in. This will accomplish two things for me.
A semi-structured interview is a qualitative research method undertaken to answer set questions while also giving the interviewer the opportunity to explore other areas of discussion (Evaluation Toolbox, 2010). Unlike questionnaires, interviews involve social interaction and require participants to essentially give data straight to the researcher of the experiment (McLeod, 2015). Structured interviews are generally formal and make the interviewer follow a strict set of questions so they do not stray into other questions that are not necessary. However, semi-structured interviews allow the interviewer to diverge into other topics when it feels appropriate to do so while also covering questions which are mandatory to bring up in the interview
An interview is much more than a simple question & answer session. It is a pursuit of information and knowledge that you can’t find in neither books nor journals. What you get out of an interview is the core of a human soul’s experiences in life. For my interview, I went for a person that can tell me about information that wouldn’t be found elsewhere. Being part of a specific field, it was quite hard knowing what to ask and what not to.
I found it extremely interesting and beneficial to be able to talk someone that has the career that you wish to have down the road. Although, I knew my professional, I had never talked to her really about all of these aspects of the job and I feel I most definitely have more perspective for what the future holds. Since I knew my person, there was not any awkward, stranger conversation, however, I did reach out as if I was talking to a professional I did not know, as opposed to someone I see as a mentor. This was a great experience, and I feel that I would certainly be able to do this again in the