Name of your host: Mark Einarson
Relationship to you: Father
The Interview: (ask your host these questions)
What is your job title?
Sr. Product Manager at Commercial Trucks
What is your job description?
Develops products by identifying potential products; conducting market research; generating product requirements; determining specifications, production timetables, pricing, and time-integrated plans for product introduction; developing marketing strategies
What are the duties and/or tasks you perform at your job?
– Train and Mange Salespeople
– Build strategy / Technical support for Sales team
– Set Production Configuration and standardize products
– Introduce new products and manage pricing strategy
What qualifications do you have for this job in the following areas:
a) training?
– Industry courses
b) education?
– BCIT Mechanical Manufacturing
c) experience?
– 20 Years of Distribution Sales and Management
d) skills and attributes (personal qualities)?
– Organization
– Communication
– Relationship building
– Technical Knowledge
– Negotiation
- What are some of the things you like about the job?
– Something new and different to learn about every day
- What are some of the things you dislike about this job?
– Sometimes stressful when dealing with deadlines and customers
- How do you anticipate this job changing in the next 5 years or so?
– The integration of electric trucks will be challenging
– Transitioning from a regional to a national sales force
Student Reflections:
Give three reasons why you would like this job (be specific):
a) Interaction with other employees
b) I found it interesting to price out the equipment using excel
c) I enjoyed creating instruction documents with Adobe Acrobat
Give three reasons why you would not like this job (be specific):
a) Early commute to work
b) I am not sure I would enjoy talking on the phone with frustrated people
c) There seemed to be a lot of Math involved
Is this job for you? Why or why not?
While I found this job interesting I am maybe not as interested in trucks as my Dad.
- Explain the value of the TOKTW experience in relation to your ideas about your post secondary (after high school) plans (education?, training?, travel?, work?
TOKTW day is very valuable because it exposes students to a working environment. It also allows students to get a better grasp on things such as daily commutes, deadlines and time management are important. TOKTW day is helpful to show students how employees interact with each other and how there are many different jobs that people must do.
