Alumni Interviews

12/5/2000

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Alumni Interviews

Background Information

Question 1: What ID (and/or PT) skills are most important in your job? How can students in the program go about acquiring these skills?

Question 1 - Bill Kelly’s Answer

Question 1 - Jae Hyun Kim’s Answer

Question 1 - Dalene Miller’s Answer

Question 1 - Mark Parsons’ Answer

Question 1 - Summary Answer

Question 2: As a professional in our field, do you view yourself as a performance technologist, an instructional designer, or as something else? Why?

Question 2 - Bill Kelly’s Answer

Question 2 - Jae Hyun Kim’s Answer

Question 2 - Dalene Miller’s Answer

Question 2 - Mark Parsons’ Answer

Question 2 - Summary Answer

Question 3: What recent trends are affecting, or will be affecting, our field? In what ways are they (or will they be) affecting our field?

Question 3 - Bill Kelly’s Answer

Question 3 - Jae Hyun Kim’s Answer

Question 3 - Dalene Miller’s Answer

Question 3 - Mark Parsons’ Answer

Question 3 - Summary Answer

Question 4: What advice would you give to students in the program prior to their entering the job market. What are some “secrets for success?”

Question 4 - Bill Kelly’s Answer

Question 4 - Jae Hyun Kim’s Answer

Question 4 - Dalene Miller’s Answer

Question 4 - Mark Parsons’ Answer

Question 4 - Summary Answer

Question 5: What specific skills did you learn at FSU that help you in your current job? What do you wish you had learned that would have been helpful?

Question 5 - Bill Kelly’s Answer

Question 5 - Jae Hyun Kim’s Answer

Question 5 - Dalene Miller’s Answer

Question 5 - Mark Parsons’ Answer

Question 5 - Summary Answer

Question 6: What are some of the key differences, in your opinion, between FSU and the “real world.”

Question 6 - Bill Kelly’s Answer

Question 6 - Jae Hyun Kim’s Answer

Question 6 - Dalene Miller’s Answer

Question 6 - Mark Parsons’ Answer

Question 6 - Summary Answer

Question 7: What could you advise me and my classmates to do while we’re at school to prepare to get a job?

Question 7 - Bill Kelly’s Answer

Question 7 - Jae Hyun Kim’s Answer

Question 7 - Dalene Miller’s Answer

Question 7 - Mark Parsons’ Answer

Question 7 - Summary Answer

Author: Howard Solomon