Informational Interview Essay

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I would like to say thank you so much to Alfredo, Marie and Chris for your wonderful help that I am getting from you guys. UWP 293: Career Planning and Practicum from this class I got a great opportunity to do on-site informational interview. Before I went for informational interview, I was so nerves, didn’t know what am going to do? How is going to look like? Am I going to be good adding it? So, I came up these all questions to my class, but Marie, Alfredo and Chris did help me out. It’s not only three of them but my career coaches did help me to practice before I went. Marie did set up for me an appointment with Linda Busha a director of human resources from UW-Parkside, and one of the career coach did gave me some good instruction before …show more content…
I had an informational interview with Linda Busha. She is the director of human resources from University of Wisconsin Parkside. I selected this professional to interview because my major is Human Resources in Business Management and it's going to help me with future job. I did learn from her so many things that I have never known about before. The Occupational Outlook Handbook and I found that a human resources director makes $102,780 per year and $49.41 per hour, it is a lot of money, but that money not make it easily that what I also found out while I was asking her some questions. She has so many responsibilities to take care of on daily basis.While I was interviewing her, she said she has to take care of so many responsibilities for example: recruiting, hiring new staff, firing, interviewing, consult top executives on strategic planning and serve as a link between an organization’s management and employees. It’s not only that, she has to make sure everyone had trained to do their jobs, just in case someone called in and fills other people in, if someone forgot to punch in they also come to her. There are so manystudents from campus, who works there part time job. She taking care of their schedules and make sure they get enough

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