Name of host: Rod Empey Relationship to you: Dad
The Interview:
- What is your job title? Sales executive.
- What is your job description? Manage the sales territory, customers needs, and sources new customers.
- What are the duties and/or tasks you preform at your job? To show samples of products and to quote prices.
- What qualifications do you have for this job in the following areas:
a) training? Sales, marketing.
b) education? marketing degree, sales.
c) experience? working in grocery store, learning how to deal with public.
d) skills and attributes (personal qualities)? time management, high service standers, high level of motivation, and a positive attitude.
5. What are some of the things you like about the job? Freedom, your own schedule, working with people, money, hanging out with coworkers.
6. What are some of the things you dislike about the job? stressful and to busy.
7. How do you anticipate this job changing in the next 5 years or so? packaging will change to environmentally friendly and shortage in paper.
My question:
would you recommend this job to people? Yes because there is lots of freedom and your working your own hours.
Student Reflections:
give three reasons why you like this job:
a) can be stressful
b) lots of paper work
c) rely on to many other people
3. is this job for you?
yes and no because my passion is designing homes and building houses (architect) but I really like how it runs and what you do.
4. Explain the value of TOKTW experience in relation to your ideas about your post secondary (after high school) plans (education?, training?, travel? work?)
If you don’t have an idea for your future, doing this shows you other options you never thought of.