TOKTW 2016

Name of your host: Lynn-Ann  |  Relationship to you: Mother

The Interview:

1. What is your job title? Manager of Alive Health Center.
2. What is your job description? Product knowledge adviser.
3. What are the duties and/or tasks you perform at your job? Handling cash, customer service, employee scheduling, training, ordering products and general management.
4. What qualifications do you have for this job in the following areas:                                                                                 a) Training? On the job training, seminars.                                                                                                                            b) Educations? N/A                                                                                                                                                                       c) Experience? Prior experience in working with health foods.                                                                                           d) Skills and attributes (personal qualities)? Personable and friendly, knowledgeable about products and have keen interest on learning. Listens to customer questions and concerns on products.
5.  What are somethings you like about this job? The ability to help people with health concerns, to correct nutritional deficiencies with supplements and to overall make people feel better.
6.  What are some of the things you dislike about this job? “There isn’t anything I don’t like about this job!”
7.   How do you anticipate this job changing in the next 5 years or so? “My job may change in the next 5 years as health Canada is trying to categorize natural health products as drugs would be” Meaning my interviewee may have to have further education and qualifications to have this job.

Student Reflection:

1.  Give three reasons why you would like this job (be specific):                                                                                              a) You can help people by informing them about supplements and other health products to improve their health.                                                                                                                                                                                               b) It is not a high-stress job, not as many people come into the store compared to other smaller stores.                  c) The job has great benefits such as free products and discounts that can improve your health.
2. Give three reasons why you would not like this job (be specific):                                                                                        a) I would not like to manage other people I work with nor have to make tough decisions on the fly.                       b) It’s not something I would like to spend my whole life doing because its not in my interest.                               c) I would not like to stand around all day in such a small space.
3. Is this job for you? Why or why not? This job is not for me because it is not something that I can see myself doing for the rest of my life. I do not want to be a manager of a health food store for the sole reason of it being something I do not find exciting.
4.  Explain the value of TOKTW experience in relation to your ideas about your post secondary (after high school) plans (education?, training?, travel?, work?) TOKTW is very valuable because it shows me what being apart of the real world is like. It shows me how important it is to do something in my post secondary I will enjoy.