An unstructured interview for a summer tutoring position

¶ … interview in the past that was certainly unstructured. The position was to help tutor middle school and elementary school students at an after school center during the summer months. One of the earliest indicators that this interview would be decidedly unstructured was the appearance of the two people who were conducting the interview. One of these people was one of the students involved in the afterschool program -- conceivably someone that I would be tutoring. He was dressed extremely casually in clothing befitting of a young teenager. The other person conducting the interview was in charge of the center itself, and was dressed strikingly similar to the way that the teenager was. They both had on jeans and t-shirts; the student wore a ski cap.

The basis of the interview was extremely conversational. There did not appear to be any sort of pre-arranged questions that the pair asked me. Certainly, they did not make any sort of annotations. The interview did not take place in an office of any sort, and instead took place on a pair of benches inside of the center itself. The pair asked me about my personal background and experience related to the subject that I would be tutoring in (which was math).

In telling them about my experience, the pair found more questions to ask me -- all of which were based on my initial answer to the first question about my experience. I spent a good deal of time talking about one of my math books that I used in high school which I planned on utilizing were I hired. They were interested in some of the problem types and methods of explanations in it. I was able to ascertain that this interview was unstructured because I had gone on formal structured interview previously. The person conducting the interview made annotations regarding my answers, and actually went through a role-playing scenario that was an integral part of the interview.

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I encountered workplace discrimination when I was working at the summer I graduated high school, and before I started my undergraduate education in college. In this particular instance I was working at a key manufacturing place at a local mall. The kiosk at which I worked also specialized in selling various gift items. Generally speaking, employees were supposed to learn how to cut keys first and then, the longer they worked, learn how to engrave gifts and sell some of the higher priced items. Moreover, the kiosk was so small that only one employee was needed to work there at a time. As the summer progressed, I had been at the job for about five weeks before another employee was hired -- who happened to be of the same ethnic makeup as the manager at this particular location.

Despite the fact that I had been working at this location much longer than the other employee, I was not surprised when at the start of one of my shifts I saw that employee learning how to engrave gifts (after about a week on the job). Soon afterwards, this employee was given training to sell mobile devices as well -- before I had even been trained on the engraving. When I asked my manager when I would get to learn how to engrave gifts, she simply said in due time. Not long thereafter, my hours were reduced to make room for the new employee's hours, convincing me that I was discriminated against because of my nationality.

This act of discrimination helped to make other employees resent the manager. I was friends with most of the other employees -- even though we only saw each in passing as we traded shifts. They would protest to me about how unfair of a situation it was -- I was the only employee who had never learned to engrave by the time I went away to college.

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Voluntary risk is the sort of risk that one is aware of and willingly undertakes to accomplish some goal. Accepted risk is not as explicit as voluntary risk and is more implicit and is the sort of risk that is simply a part of doing one's job. Imposed risk is the sort of risk that an individual does not willingly accept and is imposed upon him or her by someone else (usually in a position of authority).

The DeLaney Amendment is part of the U.S. Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, which was added after the initial act was implemented. Specifically, this act states that substances known to cause cancer cannot be in food, drug or cosmetic products sold in the U.S. (Indiana, 2011)

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