1. How do you plan on promoting yourself?
A: Shane believes in getting on a personal level. He would like to primarily use phone numbers and parties to establish connections.
2. Name three goals you have between now and graduation:
A: Shane would like to travel to a foreign country between now and graduation. He would like to visit but Europe and Australia because he believes then to be cultural hubs and will help establish personal connections. His final goal is to pay his taxes this year.
3. What employment goals do you have after graduation?
A: Shane plans to start his career buy purchasing video equipment. He believes this will help him to get a job as a production assistant. He also plans on getting on the mailing lists for three to four in house studios to further his connections.
4. Name three best case scenario jobs you would like to have and why?
A: Shane would like to be a fashion photographer, a director of photography or the head of marketing for a company. He seeks these jobs because he has a passion for visual communication and they pay well.
5. Do you prefer to work professionally alone or in a group?
A: Shane believes this depends on the situation. Shane has many good qualities he can bring to a functional group. He prefers to work around people who know what they're doing.
6. Name three contributions you can make in a group:
A: Shane is a solution man and he is not afraid of pressure. He can think on his feet. Shane is also not afraid to call people out when he feels they aren't putting the effort in.
7. What contributions can you make in independent work?
A: Shane feels he must protect his reputation so he puts great effort into all that he does. He also is a very passionate worker.
8. What are your at work pet peeves?
A: Shane finds drama annoying and unprofessional. He does not want to deal with what he calls, “awkward social crap.”
9. Three things you feel passionate about professionally?
A: Shane feels strongly about quality because he is surrounded by artists and wants to emulate their perfection. He also carries greatly to efficiency in the workplace. Finally, Shane is a fan of creative approaches to problems.
10. How do you handle criticisms?
A: Shane is “absolutely okay” with criticisms. He feels if he does something wrong he should be appropriately instructed. He wants to learn, “the right way”.
11. How do you handle stress and pressure?
A: Shane is constantly under pressure in his field. While he is affected by stress daily he tries to plan things out to be less stressful. Often he work involves driving around with $100,000 worth of equipment so he can handle stress.
12. Describe your last three jobs?
A: Shane worked as a camp councilor, a production assistant for an SNL skit and a sales associate for Hugo Boss.
1. What was the best experience?
A: The best experience for Shane was working on the SNL skit. Shane got to work on a Lonely Island video and had the responsibility of handling a man's entire livelihood in equipment.
2. What was the worst experience?
A: Shane had a bad experience as a camp councilor when one of the children he was watching got cut up by a group of Zebra muscles.
13. Outline three strengths you have in school:
A: Shane is very good about establishing a personal connection with his professors. He is also punctual and has his assignments in on time. Shane is also very good at class participation and is a stand out student.
14. What strengths do you have in the work place?
A: Shane has many strengths he can bring to the work place. He does more than what is asked of him and is a diligent worker. Shane is also very professional and doesn't fool around on the job.
15. How has Wiki helped you improve your communication skills?
A: Overall, Shane is very glad he worked on his wiki page. He learned essentially how to use a wiki and now has a great place to show his road trip pictures.
16. How has Facebook helped?
A: Shane feels Facebook has taught him that he prefers personal communication rather than social media. Shane finds Facebook superficial.
17. How would you use it for self-promotion?
A: Shane believes when the time comes he can use Facebook to get his name out there to clients.
18. How has Twitter helped you?
A: Shane is not a huge fan of the Twitter platform. Instead he would rather make his own audience.
19. How would you promote an organization on Facebook?
A: Shane is very good at creating witty and clever two sentence tag-lines. He would also use visually stimulating images to evoke an audience.
20. How will Twitter be used to promote yourself?
A: Shane hopes to use emotionally evocative posts to gather an audience. He also plans on using celebrities to push ideas and products.
21. Graphically, what would you want in your website?
A: Shane hopes that his website will have a funny loading screen and user friendly features. He plans on using simple language and a centered web page to make his site easy to navigate.
Constructive Criticisms:
1. Side-Tracked – I felt we got a little side-tracked at times by all the funny stories you had. They were really interesting but I feel like they distract from the interview.
2. Nervousness – This is probably just my problem but I feel like you almost took too much control over the interview so much so it made me really nervous. Honestly, that's probably my problem though.
3. Exploration – I feel like you could have made me expand on some of my statements.
Overall, I had a really awesome time interviewing you Shane and I hope all goes well in your future.
