...Stacy is a very interesting person. She is my sister so i've know her a long time. I talked to Stacy and I asked her some questions that relate to her coming of age. Im very glad I get to talk about my sister Stacy with people. I think that you will like her just as much as I do when i'm done. The first question that I asked Stacy was, what was an advantage and disadvantage of being the oldest child? She said that one of the advantages of being the oldest child is was it helped her to become a more independent leader and also taught her to take care of younger children. One disadvantage that Stacy had was she was the experimental child so she had to go through things first and I had to go through it second and got through things easier. I asked Stacy, What was a time in your life that made you come of age? Stacy told me how when she moved in an apartment it made her realize that she was younger then what she thought she was. Also moving away from her parents made her realize...
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...This interview discussed those who have a sexual preference or attraction to those other than but not excluding the opposite sex, such as gay, lesbian and bisexual people. The trials, tribulations and dangers of being gay were brought to light in vivid detail. The gay community has come a long way in reference to being accepted by society but there’s still a long road ahead. Many equality issues still exist for gay and lesbian people, and no laws have yet been put into place to protect them. Personally I have always been under the impression that gay men wanted to be women and that lesbian women wanted to be men but I learned in this interview that most gay and lesbian folks are happy as they are. Since I was young it was always my thought that bisexual people were in fact gay or on the way to being gay, and I was wrong there as well. In listening to this interview it has become quite apparent to me that there’s a lot of misunderstanding between the gay/lesbian and straight communities. There’s far more assumption and speculation than understanding and education in society today in reference to alternative lifestyles. The interview fully covered individuals who have sexual preference or attraction to those of the same sex, and or both. The terms expressed relate to gays, lesbians, and bisexual individuals. The society has yet to accept the new age of gays. In our society we have no laws or beliefs set to uphold rights for gays. The understanding of both gay men...
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...elsewhere, assess the strengths and limitations of using structured interviews as a means of investigating substance abuse among homeless people (15 marks) Structures interviews are interviews that involve asking people a set of fixed questions. There are many strengths of using structured interviews, for instance they produce useful quantitative data. However, they can have some negative features such the tendency towards social desirability. One strength of structured interviews is that in terms of practicality, they are very cheap to conduct. For instance, in this context, it is useful because when dealing with homeless people, they may be found in different places: on the streets or in hostels as stated in item C. Therefore because not many resources are needed, it makes it cheaper to do and therefore easier to conducted in the different places that they can be found. On the other hand, there are practical limitations, for instance they can be time consuming. Because a trained interviewer is needed to fill out the answers, this takes time and can effect how many people are interviewed. In the context here, it means that when an interviewer finds homeless people to interview, they many not be able to interview many people in one day because of how long the interviews many take particularly as they are covering as subject as sensitive as substance abuse. Another strength of structured interviews in terms of ethics is that the interviewees give thee informed consent...
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...range of substances such as drugs or alcohol. Some homeless people live on the streets. Some spend their nights in hostels that have open access. They may gain some social contact here, but hostels are often understaffed and have limited resources to help homeless people. Some homeless people are, or have been, involved in crimes such as robbery or violence. As a result, they are mistrustful of the police or any other organisation representing authority. Many of the homeless are people who have ‘fallen through the net’, in that they have suffered from poor education, long-term unemployment and/or mental illness. Some homeless substance abusers may feel excluded from society and may welcome the chance to talk about their situation. Item C portrays homelessness to be a deviant lifestyle which therefore suggests that the people who choose to live that lifestyle may be closed characters or may lack interest to share details of their lives with other people. Talking to strangers about their deviant habits could have positive or negative effects and therefore leads to there being many strengths and limitations to structured interviews. One strength of structured interviews is that the researcher has to ask a set amount of questions meaning that even though the answers about substance abuse could be detailed, the homeless people cannot not ramble or get too descriptive if they are already using drugs whilst having that interview. The use of drugs can affect the memory of the user and...
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...The Perfect Interview Ray Hall Xcom/125 August, 15 2010 Deanna Kimbrel Communication in an interview is very important and knowing what to say and knowing how to say it is the only way I believe that you can be a potential higher for a company. The information that I have shared with you in my presentation is purely informative, I show you how you can be a great interviewee and get the job done when you’re being interviewed. I chose this way to show my college students how to prepare for an interview because I didn’t believe that making persuasive presentation will reach college students. I have learned over the years that telling a college student what to do usually doesn’t work, but if you show them what they have to do to be successful than that always works. Using an informative presentation shows the college students steps in being a great interviewee and it also gets them prepared of what to expect in an interview. I believe that informative ways of showing how to interview better prepares someone for the future. It also prepares for what to expect in an interview. When most companies usually has someone doing interviews one on one, some might see how you react in a different setting. Most companies now days have you come in two or three times before they hire you so you always have to prepare for that also. They might put you through a scenario that will get you involved with other people from the company just to see how well you work with others. They...
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...scope is important. Stakeholders The key stake holders of the project are going to be the people who have an interest in the new system (Dennis). This can be the users of the system, the people the system impacts, the sponsor of the system, and the project champion of the new system. Key People In SR-rm-022 the key stake holders would include the Human Resources team. Since they are going to be the primary users of the system. All employees of Riordan Manufacturing can be considered stake holders or key people since they may be checking payroll or other Human Resources related information online. The Ceo’s will need to be able to pull information from the systems quickly and with easy readability. Information Gathering Information gathering is the first phase of the SDLC and will be key in figuring out the requirements of the new system being created. Techniques include: interviews, JAD sessions, Questionnaires, document analysis, and observation. Interviews Interviews is one step of information gathering and is most commonly used. With interviews you are talking with the key stake holders and finding some information on what they need and want the system to do. The interviews are broken up into five steps. Selecting the people to interview, designing the interview questions, setting up the interview, doing the interview, and post interview follow-up. (Dennis) Selecting Interviewees Interviewees will be selected on several criteria....
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...Interview-A Theoretical Perspective Ford Gerald Kamanga Atlantic International University October 13, 201 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 4 SCREENING INTERVIEW 5 TELEPHONE INTERVIEW 5 ONLINE INTERVIEW 6 VIDEO INTERVIEWS 6 STRUCTURED INTERVIEW 7 UNSTRUCTURED INTERVIEW 7 MULTIPLE INTERVIEWS 7 BEHAVIORAL INTERVIEW 8 SITUATIONAL INTERVIEW 8 SEMI-STRUCTURED INTERVIEW 9 PANEL INTERVIEW 10 DEPTH INTERVIEW 10 STRESS INTERVIEW 11 EXIT INTERVIEW. 11 PREPARATION FOR INTERVIEW 12 INTERVIEW SKILLS 13 REFERENCES 16 Abstract It is believed that every employee goes through an interview before employment. Therefore, an interview is indispensable as regard to recruitment. In other words, employees don’t just happen to be found working in an organization haphazardly. They have to be interviewed before they actually get employed. It sounds ridiculous to see some one being picked from a street and offered a job at a company by an employer without being interviewed. Every organization has objectives to achieve or goals to arrive at. Therefore, the organization needs qualified people to bring about tremendous success and development. How does a company come up with the right employees? Precisely, the right members of staff are sourced through the interview. There are several kinds of interviews. However, this paper will focus on a number of employment interviews. Different organizations use different types of employment interviews according to their choice. INTRODUCTION ...
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...INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT: EXIT INTERVIEWS TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………PAGE 3 2. CORRECT TIMMING OF THE INTERVIEW……………………………..PAGE 4 3. WHEN & HOW TO USE THE INFORMATION……………………………PAGE 6 4. STEPS TO AN EFFECTIVE EXIT INTERVIEW…………………………..PAGE 7 5. CONCLUSION…………………………………………………………………PAGE 9 6. REFERENCES…………………………………………………………………PAGE 10 INTRODUCTION Exit interviews are conducted with departing employees, just before they leave. Participation in exit interviews by the employee is voluntary but, the primary aim of the exit interview is to learn reasons for the person's departure, on the basis that the information will be a helpful driver for organizational improvement. Exit interviews are also an opportunity for the Organization to enable transfer of knowledge and experience from the departing employee to a successor or replacement, or even to brief a team on current projects and issues. Good exit interviews should also yield useful information about the University as an employer, to assess and improve all aspects of the working environment, culture, processes and systems, management and development, etc. Exit interviews are a unique opportunity to survey and analyze the opinions of departing employees, who generally are more forthcoming, constructive and objective than staff still in post. From the departing employee perspective, an exit interview is a chance to give some constructive feedback. Exit interviews are an extremely important...
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...Unit 3 Assignment Kerry Bridges Kaplan University IT460 Unit 3 Assignment ITEM 1 – INTERVIEW PROCESS: 1. Determine the people to interview To obtain the information I am looking for, I will need to interview key members of the organization. These members will need to be knowledgeable of their respective positions. I believe it would be best to talk to the department heads and their middle managers. I will also interview people on all levels in the organization. I will also interview multiple people in the same department. My reasoning for this is that everyone has their own strengths and specializations. 2. Established the interview objectives After determining the people to interview, I will establish the interview objectives for the session. I will determine the main topics to be discussed and come up with a list of questions and concerns. I aim to obtain ideas, suggestions, and opinions during the interviews. There will general questions asked to every person in their field. By establishing the objectives I will create the guidelines that will help to determine what questions are needed to ask. These guidelines will also determine how the interview will flow. 3. Develop Interview Questions I will create a baseline for the list of question. This will ensure that the interview proceeds smoothly and that the people being interviewed stays on topic. The questions will be specific to the topic. I want to make sure that the questions are both open-ended...
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...choose to use structured interviews when conducting their research (20 marks) Many sociologists choose to use structured interviews when they are conducting their research, because by having a structured interview there are a set of prepared questions that are close-ended and already have pre-coded answers. One reason why researchers choose to use structured interviews is because they are cheap, quick and easy to do. This is because by going out and actually trying to interview the public it is quicker to get a response from the participants and also its quicker to find out whether or not someone is willing to take the time and answer the participants questions. It is also cheaper as you don’t need to spend a lot of time to get resources together in order to conduct this researcher as you can just go out into a town and stop people to ask whether or not they have some spare time to answer some questions. This also makes it easier for the researcher as they just need to have questions ready in order to be able to ask participants what they want to know. Also by using structured interviews researchers are able to get large numbers of people in order to get a higher response rate as they are able to interview more people. By having large numbers of people to interview researchers will be getting representative data, this means that the answers which the researchers get will be generalizable. However by having a higher response rate from the interviews will not be getting very...
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...what primary research is, how to get started, ethics involved with primary research and different types of research you can do. It includes details about interviews, surveys, observations, and analysis. Contributors:Dana Lynn Driscoll, Allen Brizee Last Edited: 2012-09-21 10:05:43 Primary research is conducted all of the time--journalists use it as their primary means of reporting news and events; national polls and surveys discover what the population thinks about a particular political figure or proposal; and companies collect data on their consumer base and market trends. When conducting research in an academic or professional setting, you need to be aware of the ethics behind your research activity. Here are some specific points to consider: * You should have the permission of the people who you will be studying to conduct research involving them. * Not all types of research require permission—for example, if you are interested in analyzing something that is available publicly (such as in the case of commercials, public message boards, etc) you do not necessarily need the permission of the authors. * You don’t want to do anything that would cause physical or emotional harm to your subjects. This could be something as simple as being careful how you word sensitive or difficult questions during your interviews. * Objectivity vs. subjectivity in your research is another important consideration. Be sure your own personal biases and opinions do not get in the...
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...about the dish. James has proposed a face to face interview technique to Pablo for this research work. Face to face interview is a one on one interview, where both interviewer and interviewee sits together to get some useful information. There are many types of interviews like telephonic interview, using internet chat etc. but according to me best suitable type of interview that can help Pablo to get his needed information is Face to Face interview. Below are some key attributes of a Face to Face interview those are best suitable to get information that Pablo is looking for. 1) Time and Place – Time and place of the interview is very important. To conduct an effective interview it is very important that you should aware about, what time and date is the best to conduct an interview. For example in this case, by conducting interview on weekends you might get better results as compared to weekdays like Monday where there are less people visiting the restaurant or they can be busy in their work. On the other side the place you are going to choose for the interview is also very important. For example in this case, it will be very convenient for the customers as well as for James to conduct interview in the restaurant itself, because by doing this he don’t have to organise another place and he can get more people to be interview. This will help to reduce the cost of interview. 2) Questionnaires – to conduct an effective interview, it is very import to know, what kind of questions...
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...Comm 301 May 8, 2014 A Pentadic Analysis of Hillary Clinton Interview The artifact we are analyzing for our study is a live television interview that Hillary Clinton was giving to San Francisco’s KTVU-TV in late February of 2008. This interview was broadcasted via television and is also available on YouTube and other video media sources. The interview was being hosted by a man named Ross McGowan of KTVU-TV to senator Hillary Clinton, and that within itself makes it a significant artifact. The live interview about healthcare that Hillary Clinton was giving had to be cut short when the New York senator began having a coughing fit. Prior to the cough attack, the interview was directed but not limited to the subject of health care. Senator Clinton was speaking of issues such as the pulling troops from the Iraq war, California’s mortgage crisis, Americas current health care system, and the idea of a universal health care system. In the end of the interview Clinton fails to answer the question regarding her husbands role in her campaign by coughing for the remainder of the interview abruptly ending it. Whether or not the actions by Clinton were intended, speculation of this interview arose. In 2000, Hillary Clinton became the first women to be elected a seat in the United States Senate. At first glance, Clinton’s aggrandizement to such a respectable political position seemed like a victory for herself and the ongoing women’s movement effort. However, the continual reminder of...
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...Interview Analysis of Veterans History Project The Veterans History Project collects first-hand accounts from veterans and civilians that played significant roles during wars. The Project provides an ample collection of letters, postcards, diaries, photographs, scrapbooks, memoirs and audio or videotaped interviews of all the wars from World War I until the Iraq war. One of the Oral history video-taped interviews was ofMedaBrendall, a 93-year-old woman that worked in a shipyard during World War II as a welder from 1941-1945.MrsBrendall shares her experience as a female welder, the importance of her job in the large frame of the war andjuggling her responsibilities as a mother and a worker. In addition, she shares her opinions on the war, welding...
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...From terminology technical, flood happen when collection of incredible rain water cannot afford by river and causing it overflow through the banks or floodplain. The water will moved to the shallow land and overflow to surrounding of the environment. Flood become more dangerous when it involved human society, especially when happened at placed that concentrated with population of human that potential loss of life, infection and dangerous diseases, and destruction of property. Although floods are a natural phenomenon, it is also happened sometimes influenced by other factors, especially human action that changes the structure and surface and sub-surface soil causing rainfall to runoff balance disturbed. In urban areas for instance, many people alter the land surface from impervious areas to areas with impervious construction roads, buildings, parking zones and so on. In addition, the floods also may caused by other factors such as the collapse of the damn structure, storms, tsunami, tectonic tremor and volcanic eruptions (Ikhwan 2000). In Malaysia, floods always happened because of the combination of nature phenomenon and also human action. 2.0 PREVENTION STEPS BEFORE FACING FLOOD AT KELANTAN As we know that, floods are a natural phenomenon but yet with the addition cause by the human activities. These problems can be prevented to be happened if...
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