Journal #19
Hey guys! My name is Nick Frongillo and my job title is that I am a marketing manager. This means that I am either helping or figuring out the best ways to market a product or service that may be unique that other companies have not used or thought of yet. I have helped and worked on different marketing strategies and advertising campaigns. I will do work from a billboard to a commercial to a social media ad page. My major duties are to make an advertisement that is appealing to the naked eye. This includes doing and figuring out what stands out to people, what my target market is to help determine the best method and many other things. If I do everything right then the ad should be successful. One of the harder things to do is find something that will appeal to two very different target markets because then you have to find some small similarities that might spark an idea. Some of the other smaller duties I have is to look back at older ads I had made and used to see how those did and if that same kind of marketing would work for the future. I know how to catch people’s attention using these ads which means that I very rarely have a tough time getting a product across to a platform of people. Doing this job means that it is best for you to have people skills, have a creative mind, and know how to work in a group.
Journal #21
My role for this portion of the project included a couple different things. I had brought my job description to class and we each shared what we had done. Once we had done that we read through each other’s writing and took key parts of information from each of ours to build the combined job description. We also took ideas that we each had if we thought it was useful, unique, or fun. Once we left class I was asked to do the general job description before coming into class on Friday.
I would have to say the couple things I feel good about with this project are that we are a good group. We all divide the work evenly and know what needs to be done, but we also know that we can ask questions to each other if we get stumped. I would also say just the overall draft seems pretty good as of right now because we just took some of each of our ideas and compiled it to make a compiled job description.
Are we doing the overall project right?
Are there any things that need to change off of a first glance that jump out at you?
What other kinds of information should be included with the general job description?
Journal #22
Questions to Ask Them:
- What are you hoping to learn from this job?
- What did you study in college? And how are you hoping to use that?
- How well do you work with others in a group setting? And do you have past experiences working in groups outside of school?
3 Big Moments:
There are definitely a few things I could say to help demonstrate my value a little bit to an interview committee, but finding ones that can really demonstrate that is tricky when put on the spot. I think the first thing I would talk about is my sports and mention that I held some leadership roles on the rugby team at school. This would help show them I know how to lead but also know how to be cooperative with the other players which would fall nicely into doing group work at a job. The next one I would mention is my past job experiences. I have had a couple different jobs since high school and they have not been too similar to each other which shows that you can put me in different situations and I will do my best to figure it out. This also means that I can fit into a new setting very well since I have had a couple different jobs and went to a couple different high schools as well. The last piece I would use is also going to pertain to sports and show that I had heart and I wouldn’t give up when I was in high school doing wrestling. I had many matches where I was very close to getting pinned, but I would fight my way out of it knowing if I could pinned the other team would end up scoring the most amount of points that you could in a single match. This gave me a mentality where if I did get close to losing I would think that this is the worst thing that could happen for the whole team.
Questions an Interview Committee Would Ask:
- What do you hope to gain from this experience?
- What kind of background do you have in this field?
- How do you believe you will benefit the team?
Questions About Project:
I don’t think I have too many questions about the project since we have already started it. I will say the wording was very vague in what was needed to be done the first day we got the project because I had no clue what kind of a job description we were supposed to make and I did not know what the job description was based on. Once I figured that out and had my group explain it to me a bit more then I started to understand it better.
Journal #23
1. Professionalism
2. Punctuality
3. Adaptability
4. Honesty
5. Dependability
6. Willingness to learn
7. Personability
Journal #24
For the first run of interviews today I was a part of the search committee. From my perspective I realized that there is a lot more work in interviewing someone than just simply asking them questions. There obviously has to be a level of professionalism when you are interviewing. I did not realize that there was so much ‘grading’ of each interviewee to see who would be the best possible fit for the company. If I were to do that again I would definitely start the meeting off with a handshake and introducing my name to the interviewee so they would feel a bit more settled in to the start of the interview. I would also prepare for multiple different questions that an interviewee may ask to an interview committee so there is no long pause in between them asking the question and one of us answering them with confidence. I will also be thinking of some of my own questions to ask an interview committee because they seem to enjoy when you ask because it will make it seem as if you are really engaged with the interview regardless if you are interested or not.
Journal #25
I honestly had a lot of fun doing these interviews and seeing how they worked on both sides. I would personally say I enjoyed asking the questions because there was not as much pressure to think on the spot. Although, when I was interviewed I had fun answering the different kinds of questions that were thrown at me. It really made me think and it definitely felt like a real interview. When I was being asked questions I think there were a couple things to change. I think if I was to change something or do something differently next time then I would probably have a louder voice to show a bit more confidence and to be prepared for different questions a little bit better. If I was to change something from interviewing someone else then I would also louden my voice a bit to bring that confidence factor in. I would also like to be better in jotting down notes because I feel like I missed a few parts of the interviews trying to write down notes which will lead to possible big pieces of information being missed out on. As an observer I was intrigued to see how prepared everyone was and it honestly made me feel like I wasn’t prepared enough for my interview, but it was fun and cool to see how everyone else reacted to the questions asked to them.
Reflection of Project #3:
I will start by saying that I really enjoyed this project overall. I found it to be really fun and very informative to learn some of these real life skills that we all have either been through or are going to go through at some point in our lives. When we were going over things to plan for the job interviews I found it very odd having to think of questions that I would ask someone as if I was interviewing them. I found it odd just because I haven’t been put in that kind of situation before. In terms of the start of the project though I liked that I had written a draft for a general job description, but it was not worded well and it was actually cool because I got to learn a little better on how to write more professionally. I also saw this when I was writing my rejection letter to a candidate where I learned that there are some certain keywords not to use and you should keep it positive all the way through. Also very interesting to see the difference between sending a rejection letter where you are telling them about another upcoming job and ones where you are not offering that. When I was watching the other interviews from the ‘observing room’ I felt a bit more relaxed because I was seeing other people go and hearing how nervous everyone else was which made me see we were all in the same boat. I enjoyed being on the interview committee because I liked hearing the answers other people came up with and the fact that I wouldn’t know what kind of questions they would ask us about the job which made me have to think on my feet and I enjoyed that challenge. I enjoyed that challenge because it made the interview feel just that much more real and will probably help prepare me for any kind of situation like that where I have to think on my feet like an actual interview. I think my favorite part though was actually being interviewed. I don’t know why though because I was very nervous. It was funny because when I went and sat down I had some answers prepared in my head for if they asked a certain question, but when I sat down it all just flew out of my head for a few seconds. When I answered the first question though I started to feel better and found it fun answering those questions as well. I was asked a few questions that I was then prepared for, but then got thrown through a loop from getting asked, “Would you rather everyone fear or love you?” I thought it was very funny though because you never know if that could happen in an actual interview, you have to be ready for any kind of question. My favorite part though was seeing how well everyone was doing and seeing that everyone understood we were nervous, but we all had to do it which in turn made us just have more fun with the project.
