Blog 17 - Interview 3 Reflection

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  

• The most important thing i learned from this interview is that the quality of the product is the main object of the product, also the competition you can deal with it by just making it better in quality and the flavor of it.

2.  How has your approach to interviewing changed over the course of your senior project?

• This interview has been different from the rest of the others because the question are more in the the direction that i want to go to compare to the interview before their were more into the subject of the food industry. 

Blog 10 - Interview 2 Reflection

1. Please explain how you are spending your mentor ship time (Is it at a workplace or somewhere else?  Are you shadowing?  Are you able to do tasks that are meaningfully related to the topic?  If so, what?  Are there other people who are experts in the location?  Etc...)

During my mentor ship, currently help secretary filing paper/ imputing information in the computer/ knowing how much each of the products have sale per month. Sometime I shadow with my mentor, but currently i have not because he has a problem right now. based on my topic I'm learning how each products is being sale per month.  

2.  How did you find your mentor?  How did you convince this person to help you?  

My mentor is my mom's boss, but we didn't have that close relationship. The only place that I saw he was when he made small parties fro his company. well i didn't convince him, I told him about the senior project and asked if he was willing to help me in this project and said yes.

  

3. How would you rate your comfort level with your mentor at this point in your relationship?  How does this relate to the time you've spent so far at mentor ship/with this person

  I will rate my comfort level with my mentor from 1-10 is 7, because its like the relationship with         your teacher. yes it does relate to the time we have spend in mentor ship.

4. What went well in this interview?  Why do you think so?  What do you still need to improve?  How do you know?  How will you go about it?

The interview went well but it was quick because he needed to go some where. he answered the question has professional as he can and giving me his point of view and knowledge.  I really want to make a poster advertisment with one of the product in his company.   

Blog 5 - Interview 1 Reflection

                       

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  Is there anything I would do differently for other interviews?

The most important thing I learn from the first interview is that you have the power to choose on what study you want and finance and accounting are one of the main bases of a business. Well as a business if one thing from a business doesn't work it all falls down. Plus the aspect of how he joked about not having competition, I didn't expect that from he because he is close about his life. One of the biggest changes that I will make is going over the question with him before, if he didn't understand he would of ask me. 

2. Did I get additional resources and contacts?  What is the most useful?  Why?

The additional resources that my mentor Andres Jaramillo were the manuals of the accounting system the have in his business and a book he mention in the interview. The additional contacts are the production manager and Carolina the top sales person Who is not currently in Andre's  business, but she passes by every other day. Plus there are several sales persons that I can interview or discuss on what I'm will to know. The most helpful would be a little of everything because I will be needing different perspectives from people. 

3. What makes my interviewee qualified to help me?

My interviewee is qualified to help me because he is a former successful business owner and have different degrees within the business, psychology, mathematics which that would be a great Combination  for a business. 

Blog 3 - First Interview Preparation

1. Who do I plan to interview? why?

             I'm planning to interview my mentor Andres Jaramillo, a former business owner of Don Pedro's Meat( when you click on this site make sure you don't have the volume all up). Andres as a business owner has experience within the Food business industry. Before Andres made the decision on working in the food industry, he was part of the Flower Industry. This flower industry is located downtown of Los Angeles called the Flower District, which he de with the sales . the reason that I'm interviewing Andres Jaramillo is because I have seen the progress from what he was then to now, but I know that I'm not an expert on it. In other word, the business that Andres had in the years pass with the food industry was a smaller environment as a-post to it now.

Five questions will be assigned to all seniors to ask

• I'm interested in studying _______. What can you tell me about it?
• From your perspective , What could I study that would be significant to other people?
• Who else would you recommend I talk to?
• What kinds of places or activities do you recommend I do for the mentor ship component?
• What materials should I Read in this field ? Who else can I interview?

What additional questions do you plan to ask?

• Why did you choose the business field?
• What are some of the degrees you have achieve?
• What were the degrees that gave you the most information on the business industry?
• What was your inspiration in building a food business?
• What were the options in the food industry?
• Why did you choose of producing Latin product?
• How much time did it take for your business to be as it currently?
• What are the main elements of a food industry to be successful from your experience?
• Can you expand on each elements?
• What were some of the obstacles that kept you from achieving your goal?