The Assignment:
You will be observing your host throughout the day. There are 3 parts to this assignment:
Part 1- The Interview: Observe your host at work, at some point interview your host and record/make notes of the results
Part 2 – Reflection: After the day is finished, reflect upon your experience and answer the reflection questionsPart 3 – Post Your Assignment to Your Blog: Once your have completed Part 1 and Part 2 post it on your blog. Make sure you take pictures and/or videos to document your day, you can place them in your blog.
Name of your host: _____Nenad Mladenovic__________________ Relationship to you: ____________Father_________
The Interview: (ask your host these questions)
1. What is your job title? ________________Fire alarm engineer_________________________________________ 2. What is your job description?controls all of the fire alarms in yvr and works on them____________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ 3. What are the duties and/or tasks you perform at your job? _____I got to help my dad install a fire alarm.________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 4. What qualifications do you have for this job in the following areas:
a) training? ____You need to know engineering and have experience
__________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ b) education?___You have to have graduated and have gone to some colleges or universities._________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ c) experience? __He said that you don’t have to have experience and you just have to have the desire to learn.________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________
d) skills and attributes (personal qualities)?__Being able to work hard and to never give up and know what your doing___________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________
5. What are some of the things you like about the job? __I like that he walks around the airport and gets to go into places no one else is allowed and its exiting_______________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 6. What are some of the things you dislike about this job? _That he has to drive so far to get there and that his work is so spread out.______________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________
7. How do you anticipate this job changing in the next 5 years or so? _I think that his job will change to a multiple item job which means that he will do other appliances____________________ _____________________________________________________________________________
Name: ____Matej_________________ Rap: _______Class: __Burton________ Due: _______________________
Other question (s): ______________________________________________________________________________
Student Reflections:
1. Give three reasons why you would like this job (be specific):
a) ___I would like this job because you get to walk around the whole airport_____________________________________________________________ b) __You control the whole fire system_____________________________________________________________ c) ____you get to meet all the head of operations____________________________________________________________
2. Give three reasons why you would not like this job (be specific):
a) _It is a very long drive to get there_______________________________________________________________ b) ____You can’t mess-up or you will be really bad situation____________________________________________________________ c) ____You have to know every thing or else you’ll be in trouble____________________________________________________________
3. Is this job for you? Why or why not? _____I think that this job is for me because if you listen to the important things you will do well and have no issues with your boss._____________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Explain the value of the TOKTW experience in relation to your ideas about your post secondary (after high school) plans (education?, training?, travel?, work?). _This related because we could see how hard it is to work and what you need to look for when you need to find a job._________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________