528 Appendix A Competent Interviewing- A good source for seeing the subtle differences between legal and illegal job in-
terview questions is at the following job Web site: http://www.jobweb.com/Interview
/help.aspx?id=1343&terms=illegal+questions. Use this site to organize a discus-
sion with your classmates about how you would respond to illegal questions in a
job interview. Practice and compare your responses. - Assess your goals for employment, and then design (or revise) a résumé for the
job that interests you the most. Use the guidelines in this chapter to make it
clear and action-oriented. Prepare additional résumés for other positions, keep-
ing in mind that your résumé should highlight the aspects of your training and
experience most relevant to each particular position. Discuss your résumé with
other students in the class; ask them if your goals are clear. Can they tell what
job you are seeking based on the different résumés you show them? Compare
your résumé to theirs; although the format may be similar, the content should
be unique to you. - Create a questionnaire that you will use the next time you visit a physician.
Focus your questions on what is already known about your condition and what
you want to know about possible treatment. You may also want to ask ques-
tions about the training and experience of the physician in a way that will give
you the information you want without you seeming contentious. If you have
no medical issues, perhaps your questionnaire can be designed for someone else
(a child, a friend, or a relative who could benefit from your help). - Conduct an in-depth information-gathering interview, and write a four-to five-
page report in which you summarize the information you received. Then com-
ment on what you learned about the interview process. The interview must last
at least one hour; the interviewee must be a close acquaintance who is older than
you and who must have children (consider interviewing one of your parents).
The interview must cover at least two of the following topics:
a. The person’s philosophy of raising children (discipline, finances, making
friends, respect for authority, character formation)
b. The person’s political beliefs (political affiliation and commitment,
involvement in civic affairs, involvement in government)
c. The person’s religious beliefs, their effect on the person’s life, and how these
beliefs relate to family life
d. The person’s goals in life and how the person is working to achieve these
goals
e. The person’s philosophy of leisure time (ideally how one should spend lei-
sure time versus how this person actually spends it)
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