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Informational Alumni Mentor Sessions

Informational Alumni Mentor Sessions

Q Networking is crucial to your job search. Informational interviews are one way to expand your network. We discuss the concept of informational interviewing throughout the text and class but this opportunity is one way for you to engage in networking that will yield dividends in your career strategy. Each student will be responsible for finding and interviewing someone in your chosen field of study or industry. You may also choose to interview a UM-Dearborn alum. Afterward, write a paragraph about your discussion and something that you learned from that person. Also, include their contact information, position title, and company name. This assignment will be due by Sunday, April 4th at 11:59pm.

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My major is human resource management and for this paper, I decided to interview a rehab director who is also an occupational therapist. His name is Brendon Cox. He lives in the state of Utah, so we had to communicate by phone and email (bcox@indrehab.com/801-850-2237). I asked him a series of different questions, but my first question was to provide an example of when he successfully organized a diverse group of people to accomplish a task. His response was “Each and every day as a director, you organize many groups to complete tasks. Many different ethnicities, different personalities, and different beliefs.