The person that I interviewed was Autumn Tomas. She is the Director of Head start/Early Head Start. Her role/responsibility as the director is the day-to-day management and oversight of the Head Start/ Early Head Start Program for Episcopal Children Services. I interviewed her at her office on July 27th 2016 and our interview lasted about 45minutes.
I interviewed by phone call with a female veteran also nurse for this week’s assignment, she working as a nurse in a hospital. She is currently working in the VA Hospital in California. She enlisted in the army as a soldier in 2000 and stayed until 2003. Then she applied and started a program called AECP (AMEDD Enlisted Commissioning Program).
Attracting applicants from all levels of society including the working poor and single parents, recruiting talented workers who are satisfied and motivated has the potential to lead to higher productivity and greater retention (Green, Lopez, Wysocki, Kepner, Farnsworth, & Clark, 2015). The key to our successful Human Resources department is not that we hire a diverse workforce, but that we chose our employees from a diverse pool of representatives of the community. Building a reputation as a diverse inclusive corporation attracts the best from the
She began the works of ending segregation and should continue on with the new generations every time. To remind everyone about the history and past that occurred that changed every single person lives. For the good and the bad. We don’t want to set an example to everyone that segregation is good. We want to grow with the diversity of many types of people and learning about different cultures that may improve our communities.
In order to conduct the in depth college interview assignment, I decided to interview Lisbeth Luna, a 11th grade from Middle College High School at LaGuardia Community College Lizbeth Luna was born on Ecuador, she came to the United States with both of her parents and her brother when she was around four years old. Lisbeth, definitely describes herself as a Latino/Hispanic student. Lisbeth is eligible for free lunch, she actually stated that she believes everyone or the majority of students at her school are eligible for free lunch. Even though Lisbeth describes her first language to be Spanish, she stated that the majority of the time she finds herself speaking English with her friends and brother, expect with her parents. She attempts to talk in Spanish with her parents, but the majority of times she is always speaking English.
Annotated Bibliography Tashina Stoffel, Personal Interview, 3 November 2015 I prepared for my interview by researching questions that would really be essential to my essay. I chose questions that would be easy for her to answer and questions that could be incorporated into my essay. I also asked questions that would be fun for her to answer and that could help influence my decision on the career. I used the answers to the questions to introduce the career.
Over the last few years, I have come to get to know my interviewee. She is a really good friend of mine, and her name is Maddie Anderton. I have learned a lot about her over the years and where she came from. She moved here from Alabama in 2005. I chose to interview her, because she is always talking about Alabama and how much she wishes she could go back.
Definitions of multicultural Competence Frontline Human Service Providers, was collaboratively written by L. Caldwell, D. Tarver, D. Iwamoto, S. Herzberg, P. Cerda-Lizarraga, and T. Mack. The article was published by the journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development. This article explores different definitions provided by ninety nine different human service providers who are on the frontline serving in the helping capacity. All information they have in counseling was gain from firsthand experience. Color blindness, client focused, acknowledgement of cultural differences, textbook consistent, resources driven, skills-based, and self-integrated, are used throughout the article as terms that are frequently used to define multicultural.
I noticed in almost every response, her answer sums up to standing out and making an effort to be
She encourages the members of her audience to be a mentor to someone who is different from them, and who does not have the same opportunities as them (Abdel-Magied, 9:56). Everyone has the tendency to gravitate towards those similar as themselves, she acknowledges (Abdel-Magied, 10:00). But by finding someone with a completely different background than you, you can create opportunities for them that were not there before. Many times we don’t even realize that others lack the opportunities that we have (Abdel-Magied, 10:35-10:45). By making the decision to look beyond your own bias and reach out to someone, you have the potential to create more opportunities for people, and in doing so you are helping the world by creating equal
She points out gender and racial diversity in a workplace help people bring their knowledge and intelligence together to increase team performance. In addition, people engage in more critical thinking and gain broader viewpoints when they hear different opinions from someone in a different
In today’s era managers are challenged daily with disputes like ethics, diversity, working in teams, privacy, sexual harassment, and handling differences. Furthermore, these issues are discussed because they are constantly the debatable topics in the workplace. More importantly, handling differences and diversity is the current situations in the workplace. Moreover, a few managerial concepts must be considered, including selection methods, training and development, performance appraisal, and diversity management.
- Diversity brings a variety of ideas and viewpoints to the organisation especially when creative problem solving is required. - Diversity increases passionate workers and makes work fun and
How she talked about their work is pleasing and incredible. Melissa Martinez changed my way of thinking about Foreign Service and interested me in her work. Part that interests me to work as a Foreign Service Officer is international cooperation and saving people’s lives. Also, resolving integration conflicts and crisis in different countries. I can be a part of something big and I can help people.
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.
