Take Your Kid to Work
The Interview:
- What is your job title? Office Manager/ Part Owner
- What is your job description? General Office Administration
- What are the duties and/or tasks you perform at this job? Send invoices to customers, manage time sheets, job cost analysis, order office supplies, ect…
- What qualifications do you have for this job in the following areas:
- Training? None, on the job
- Education? Education on the job
- Experience? No prior experience
- Skills and attributes (personal qualities)? Organisation, ability to deal with people, and solving problems
- What are some of the things you like about this job? Close to home, coworkers, and learning new things
- What are some of the things you dislike about this job? Dealing with rare customer complaints, collecting information to close a job, and phone calls in the middle of the night
- How do you anticipate this job changing in the next 5 years or so? It may expand and require more personnel
Student Reflections:
- Three reasons why I would like this job
- a) Pretty straightforward
- b) Sometimes I would be able to do it from home ex: If I am sick
- c) I would get to learn new things
- Three reasons why I would not like this job
- a) Late night phone calls (because I probably won’t be able to wake up and answer)
- b) I would not like dealing with complaints
- c) I would be sitting at the computer all day
- Is this a job for me? No because I don’t want to be doing something where I will be sitting at a computer all day and talking on the phone.
- What are the values of TOKTW? I think Take your kid to work day is a good idea because it can show you what it will be like working after you are finished school.