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(Prepare for your interview. Read up on it in the Occupational
Outlook Handbook online and customize the questions.)
CURRENT
1. What do you do for a living?
(title, tasks, responsibilities, hours/week, what a day looks like,
how spend most of your time, work weekends or evenings, who you
report to, do you have people reporting to you)
2. What do you most enjoy about your career? What parts are most
challenging or least pleasant?
3. What personal qualities, knowledge & skills are needed for success?
4. What is the current employment outlook for your field?
5. Ideas, books, websites for people interested in your career?
KID & TEEN
6. Background: parents jobs, where raised
7. What were you like as a kid & teen? Your personal interests?
Were you good at? What careers were you thinking about in high school?
8. How were you as a high school student? What subjects held your
interest? Which didn't?
9. Did you participate in activities outside of school? What were
they? Were they significant in your development?
10. As a youth, did you haven mentors?
11. What school subjects would be the most helpful and relevant
for me to study to prepare now for your current career?
YOUNG ADULT TO PRESENT
12. What did you do after high school? Receive special training?
Did you attend college? Where? Degree(s)? Field of study? Find valuable?
13. Walk thru your career path from your first job out of school/military.
What did you like best and worst about each job? Did you explore
more than one option? Types of jobs. How did you get to your current
job?
14. What are the minimum educational, training, licensing requirements
for entry into your field? How many years does this take?
15. How did you finance college? (Work? Scholarship? Detail)
16. Is there anything additional you think is important for me to
know about your career?
Thank you for your time. What an
interesting career you have!
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"Mr./Ms. XX, I'm doing a project for school
and would appreciate it very much if you would help me. I
need to interview people who have careers that sound interesting
to me, and I chose you and your career. All I need is 15-30
minutes of your time sometime this week, whenever it's convenient
for you."
(It'll prob'ly go longer than 30 min!)
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EVALUATE
. . . Ask Yourself:
• Does this seem like a good career possibility for me?
• What do I like the best about this career? Least?
• Does it look like a good ìfitî for me?
• Does the career seem interesting to me? Does it seem enjoyable?
• Can I do this for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week?
• What changes would make this career more attractive to me?
• Does this interview make me think of another career Iíd like
to explore?
Compare
interview with several pros in this career, and Ask yourself:
• How are these people different? Do they say the same things
about the career?
• Which person that I interviewed seems the most like me?
• How are we alike?
• Am I excited about this career?
If you like the career, apply
for a Part-Time or Summer Job to spend more time around it.
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