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Assignment: Project: Conducting Informational Interviews

The video segments you viewed covered only some of the jobs available in the field of early childhood and child development. Many other jobs were referred to throughout your program, including music therapists, art therapists, child-life specialists, speech therapists, community college faculty, four-year college faculty, children's book authors and illustrators, educational writers, and more.

For this Project, choose three jobs that truly interest you and interview three people who have these jobs. For instance, if one of your choices is the job of children's librarian, you will need to interview a children's librarian.

To complete this week's assignment:

• Use the Web sites provided in the Learning Resources and the video segments to help you choose the professions/jobs you are interested in learning about.

• Contact and set up in-person or telephone interviews with three people.

• Use the Informational Interview sheet to conduct your interviews.

Informational Interview given below.

• Write a summary of each of your interviews, and in your final paragraph, identify the one job that most interests you and explain why.
Assignment length: 2-3 pages

Informational Interview

1. Please tell me about your job-what you do on a daily basis.

2. What kind of education and experience did you need to qualify for this job?

3. What do you like most about your job?

4. Is there a story you would like to share that explains why you like your job or one of the high points of your job?

5. What are some of the challenges of your job?

6. How is the work that you do in sync with your philosophy of child development or early childhood?

7. How does the work that you do positively impact the lives of young children and their families?

8. If you were hiring someone to take your position, what knowledge, skills, and dispositions would you look for?

9. What else would you like to share about your job to help me better understand what the job consists of and whether it would be a good fit for me?