Assignment: Informational Interviewing
Objective: You will learn how to schedule, prepare for, and hold an informational interview
Instructions:
1. Identify someone from whom you would like to request an informational interview. For example, this can be someone who has worked in the field of your choice or at a company you are interested in:
a. A alumni,
b. A Professor,
c. A more senior classmate,
d. An entrepreneur from whom you'd like to learn to further build your business,
e. A professional you identify using First Hand (See PDF on how to use this system)
f. Other
2. Contact that person via email or phone call, requesting a 30 minute phone call or meeting. Use the wording mentioned in class. (Get wording from your Practice Team members if you were absent.)
3. Schedule the meeting with enough time to ensure that you can meet your assignment deadline. No extensions will be granted on the deadline, so make sure that your contact can speak before the deadline. Should your contact not be available during this timeframe, seek out someone else.
4. Prepare for the informational interview:
a. Fill out Interview Preparation Worksheet for Candidates
b. From the Informational Interviewing Worksheet, identify the questions that you will ask your contact
5. During the interview, takes notes on the Informational Interviewing Worksheet.
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the professor's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also Include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow MLA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.