Name of your host: Kim Stark

Relationship to you: Mom

The Interview: (ask your host these questions)

1. What is your job title?:assistant vice president of western region for tjx-canada

2. What is your job description?: Development of regional strategies as well as district managers

3. What are the duties and/or tasks you perform at your job?: Focus on talent development of district managers

4. What qualifications do you have for this job in the following areas:

a) training?: 25 years in management and leadership roles.

b) education?: marketing at BCIT

c) experience?: 20 years with TJX-Canada

d) skills and attributes (personal qualities)?: leadership

5. What are some of the things you like about the job? Its a dynamic work environment.

6. What are some of the things you dislike about this job? Can be to many conference calls and meetings.

7. How do you anticipate this job changing in the next 5 years or so?: there may be a restructuring in the field

Student Reflections:

1. Give three reasons why you would like this job (be specific):

a)Flexible hours

b)Good connections with co-workers

c)Be able to be a leader

2. Give three reasons why you would not like this job (be specific):

a)It looks really hard.

b)There is a lot of paperwork

c)A lot to do

3. Is this job for you? Why or why not?: no this is not the job for me because I don’t want to work in retail.

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?): It made me see how hard it was to go to a job everyday and to the same thing so I want to go to a post-secondary school so I can get a job im passionate about.