Adult Interview: Due Monday, January 30, 2012

Adult interview:  You are to interview two adults (over 30 years of age) about their jobs / career.  It could be both parents (mother and father), or a parent and another adult such as aunt, uncle, neighbor, etc. 

Questions:

1. What is their job title.
2. What are some of their responsibilities?
3. How do they use technology in their job?
4. What type of education was needed to obtain this job?
5. Was there any “on-the-job-training” in addition to formal education that was required?
6. How many hours do they work each day and how many days a week do they work?
7. Do they work overtime?  If so how are they compensated for overtime?
8. Dress code:  What is typical dress for workers and how do managers dress?
9. What are things they like about their job?
10. What are things they don’t like about the job?
11. Do they work in teams?
12. What is the starting wage for that type of job?  DO NOT ASK HOW MUCH THEY MAKE . . . it's rude!  You may ask the starting wage (it's a general question).
13. What type of benefits do they get if any?  (health care, paid vacation, sick days, stock options, bonus, other)
14. Comments – ask them if there is anything they would like to add about the job that we didn't think to ask? 

The response to questions is to be typed in memo format – use memo template professional, contemporary, elegant design format  (TO:  Janice Lang , FROM: Your name:,  DATE: use current date,  SUBJECT: Interviews).       PRINT
Due Monday, January 30, 2012