Agenda Setting for The Interview Script

After settling into which company your group works for to complete The Interview Script, here are a couple of tasks that you are to start doing today within your groups, to help in the research process:

Research – answer a few ?s about the company that are important to pursue:

-        What is the company motto and/or what do they emphasize their company is about?

-        What are some of the general main duties and skills necessary of a person working in the public relations OR marketing aspect of a company?

-        Consider the current culture – what are some possible cultural/ business events that may likely affect your company?

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1) Go to the Company Website: seek out information from their "about" or "history" section. 

Tip:Have someone on the team draft a professional-looking e-mail inquiry to their human resources department that:

a. explains that you are doing it for a class project, and 

b. you want to know what kind of qualifications and characteristics they look for in hiring someone into their company. Also, ask them You may get a response, you may not, but this is part of the research process. For some help, go to page 117 of our text)

2) Library Research: Expanding beyond the workplace
-Everyone in the group should brainstorm together, and create a list of, various kinds of data and job-related material might be useful when discussing the available position. For example: there are theories, and standard practices and tools used within various fields. When you are about to interview someone, it is helpful to get to know some of what the experts know in that position...so...to the library! (http://www.chipublib.org)