Posted: September 13th, 2017

Informational Interview Assignment (Airline Industry Prefer)

Informational Interview Assignment (Airline Industry Prefer)

Paper details:
Occupation: Aviation Industry
Position: Station Manager of a commercial airline (UA, Delta, Frontier, etc..)
Be sure to look something up about the people that work in the airline industry for this paper because that is the field that this interview is going to be talked about.

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*** Steps for the assignment are as follows***
Go to http://online.onetcenter.org/ and research an occupation that you are interested in. Read over the description to get a sense of tasks, knowledge, and skills required for that job. (a) Through your own personal network (i.e., classmates, friends, family) or simply cold calling an organization, interview someone who is employed with that job.
(b) In the interview, ask the interviewee the following 4 questions (i) how he/she got the job, (ii) what aspects that he/she likes about the job, (iii) challenges with the job, (iv) advice to help you with your job choice. Then ask an addition 3-5 questions that are of interest
to you. You can google “informational interview questions” to get ideas for additional questions to ask. (c) Write a maximum 2 page typed double spaced paper comprised of the following 3 parts.
This assignment can be written in the first person (e.g., I interviewed… I found the interview to be….)
Part 1. A brief paragraph describing the job title and company of the interviewee; if you don’t want to name the company you can simply describe it.
Part 2. The questions you asked and below each question the interviewee’s answers (so question, answer, question, and answer).
Part 3. A paragraph describing the experience of the interview – was the information useful? Did you learn something? Can you approach this person in the future for some job leads?