Blog 6: Second Interview Questions

Interview Questions:

1. How long have you been working in the field?
2. Is this what you always wanted to be? Why?
3. What is your favorite thing about your job?
4. What is the least thing you like about your job?
5. What courses did you need to take in college?

Additional Questions:

1. Does your company do something unique that stands out from the rest?
2. What's the most commen issues you have with clients?
3. What skills must an event planner have in order to be successful?

Working EQ

1.) Positive Statement: During one of the days in which I was doing my mentorship hours, I got to be a part of the food tastings the clients had. They let me try the different foods and they also let me try the cake tastings.

2.) EQ Content: My interview gave me new information that I didn't know of. She helped me see how events are in one of two categories. Before she gave me that piece of information, I didn't even know there were different categories for events.

3.) Honestly, everything has worked for me until now. I haven't had any problems with this topic. I've found research easily and I found a great mentor, so that's made the topic easy to work with.

4.) Everything has worked out for me, I have no complaints.

5.) Finding Value:

• Questions:
• How does hospitality connect with event planning?
• Are there any other things I could study that would help me with my senior topic?
• My goal is to possibly get a job as my mentors assistant. Reasons being, not only does a job always come in handy but also because she told me herself that if by the end of my hours I did a good job with all the things she makes me do, she could give me a job.
• I would like to interview a professional wedding event planner next. Simply because it's the only type of event I haven't done much research on, yet.

Blog 5: Problem Statement

1.) Event Planning
2.)

• Planners aren't advertised very well. Most people don't know where to find a planner for their event .
• Once I solve this problem, I plan on passing down the knowledge and advice to my mentor because I know it would be of great help to her business.

3.)

• Some people don't like an event planners prices.
• As soon as I solve this problem, I will share my ideas with the owner and manager of the banquet hall in which I do my mentorship hours and hopefully, help them avoid losing interested customers.

Blog 3 : Interview Preperation

1. I plan to interview last years senior, Norma Lopez because her topic was also event planning and she actually helped me out a lot this summer with questions I had. Therefore, I don't think she'll mind me interviewing her. In addition to that, she was in ASB so I think aside from her service learning hours, she has a bit more experience with planning events due to the events ASB has for the school every year.

2. I do have some additional questions.

• Why did you choose "event planning" as your topic?
• What did you enjoy most while working with this topic?

Blog 2: Topic Choice

a. My topic is event planning because I encountered a couple of problems in search of a mentor with my original idea for a topic in pastry chef. Event planning was my second option either way so I didn't mind changing my topic in the end. I find it fun to plan a party or a gathering of people. It can be stressful to organize and plan at times, but the outcomes of events make it all worth it in the end.

b.

• IPoly Citizen: I plan to help and work with my peers as much as I can because not only were we trained to do so for the past three years, but also because that's a big part of event planning due to variety of people one has to interact with.
• Effective Communicator: I plan to listen and respect what both my peers and teachers say to me. This will help me train myself to be able to work well with customers that go into the banquet hall and be able to have their event turn out the way they wanted it.
• Effective Learning: I plan to express creativity, be prepared at all times, and solve a problem as best I can. These are all important factors of event planning because without these qualitites, you would be a horrible coordinator when planning a customers event.
• Effective User of Technology: With the use of technology, I can be that much more organized with a customers information. In addition to that, the use of internet allows me to search for busnisses that provide supplies or services that the customer needs at a price they can pay.