Mentor Interview - Week 10

Interview Questions


THE ASSIGNMENT:

Select someone at your internship to interview.
Arrange a time and place that you can conduct the interview.
It is a good idea to give the questions you are asking to the interviewee (the person you are going to interview) in advance.

Please use the list of questions below when interviewing your mentor. Select at least 12 or more of these questions to ask the interviewee. You may use all of them if you wish. Again, it would be good to give the interviewee the questions in advance.

Record the answers during the interview and then type the questions and answers into a post titled Mentor Interview.

Questions

1. What is your full name?

2. Where are you from (city, state, country)?

3. Where did you go to college? For how long? Do you plan to go back to school?

4. (If the interviewee went to college)… What was your major in college and what kind of degree did you earn? Did you attend graduate school for an advanced degree? If yes, what degree and where?

5. Why did you choose your professional field?

6. What got you involved in this field of work? What inspired you to do it?

7. Why did you choose this particular job at this particular company?

8. How long have you worked here?

9. What is your job title?

10. What do your duties include? Or What kinds of work does your job involve?

11. What are some of the challenges you have faced working here?

12. What is the best part of your job?

13. What is something you would like to change about your job?

14. Did you work somewhere else before this job? Where? For how long? How was that similar/different?

15. What do you see as your future with this company?

16. Do you enjoy the kind of work you do? Why or why not?

17. Do you plan to open your own business one day?

18. How has having an intern helped your company or organization advance or progress?

19. What advice would you give to high school-aged interns (such as myself) getting ready for college?

20. What advice would you give to high school-aged interns (such as myself) preparing to find a career in the real world?

*21. Feel free to create additional questions. Just make sure to be appropriate.

Before you conduct your interview, consider these ideas:

-Who do you want to interview?

-What do you already know about that person? (their name, where they are from, how old they are, what their job is...)

-What do you want to know about that person? (how they got their job, where they went to school, how long they were in school...)