Informational Interview

INFORMATIONAL INTERVIEW 5

Maryam Sareminia

Argosy University

Career Choices in Psychology

Professor Smith

2-28-2017

Personal Information

The name: Dr. Cathy Blake
The job title: Psychologist, LMFT
The level of education: Psychology Degree, Doctorate of Psychology
A description of job responsibilities or day-to-day tasks: The aim of psychology is to study the minds of human beings (Study.com, n.d). Psychologists conduct research on the same and therefore, helps in understanding the human behaviors, mental health issues as well as the human memory. Psychologists help people through various ways such as offering them counseling (American Psychological Association, 2011). They conduct their researches through experimentation and therefore, through these different methods they assist in promoting safety, ensuring good mental health as well as promoting understanding among people. In addition to these, psychologists also lead either individual or group counseling sessions. To this effect, their job primarily pertains talking to characters and ensuring that they help foster a positive personal and mental health growth. Psychologists focus on the behavioral patterns of a human being’s life as well as certain periods of their life such as adolescence or infancy and the ways these behavioral patterns affect the individual and ways to correct the disorders among other things. Moreover, they help in ensuring the prevention, the diagnosing and treatment of mental health disorders on their given patients.
The type of license: Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
The state of residence and practice: California
The e-mail address or phone number: [email protected], 323-938-3434

The Warm-Up Portion

Before entering into the interview, when I met Dr. Blake, I shook her hand and introduced myself. After my self-introduction, I engaged my interviewee in a small talk concerning her profession on an overview perspective, and therefore, through this general discussion concerning the said trade, I was able to slide into the informational interview and ask all the following questions that I had prepared.

Informational Interview Questions

1. What is your typical day like?

2. How did you get into this profession?

3. What is your advice for someone desiring to enter into this line of work?

4. What are the unique skills that one needs for this field?

5. What do you like least in your profession?

6. What do you like best about your work?

7. In this type of work, do the job settings vary very often?

8. What sort of training/ education/ experiences is needed in this field?

9. What are your views on professional ethics and academic integrity?

10. What are your greatest rewards/ challenges in this area?

11. How demanding is your profession?

12. Who do you think is a potential employee according to employers?

13. How did you enter the field?

14. How can one obtain volunteer work?

15. What are the best ways one can enter into this profession?

Reference

American Psychological Association. (2011). Careers in psychology. Retrieved from http://www.apa.org/careers/resources/guides/careers.aspx#

Study.com. (n.d). Psychologist Job Duties, Job Description, and Employment Opportunities. Retrieved on 28 February 2017, from http://study.com/psychologist.html

The University of Arizona. (n.d). Informational Interviews. Retrieved on 28 February 2017, from http://psychology.arizona.edu/informational-interviews