Blog 10 - Interview 2 Reflection

1. Please explain how you are spending your mentorship time (Is it at a workplace or somewhere else?  Are you shadowing?  Are you able to do tasks that are meaningfully related to the topic?  If so, what?  Are there other people who are experts in the location?  Etc...)

• I spend my mentor-ship volunteering at the very restaurant my mentor owns and works at. My tasks involve typical employee duties such as washing dishes, preparing food, and loading up storage. The tasks performed are meaningful in giving me hands on experience in the workforce. In contemporary to my work I receive lessons and lectures from my mentor explaining why each task is done and then going on to explain the business from an anecdotal fashion. 

2.  How did you find your mentor?  How did you convince this person to help you? 

•  My mentor is a family friend and someone I've known my entire life. It didn't take much convincing to get him to be my mentor, he was glad to help me with my project and since he has spent a great deal of his life as a business man he felt he had a lot of knowledge to share with me. 

3. How would you rate your comfort level with your mentor at this point in your relationship?  How does this relate to the time you've spent so far at mentorship/with this person? 

• My comfort level is fine, as I stated before I've known my mentor all my life and he is like family to me, getting along or just being in his presence is as normal and comfortable than that with my brother or father. 

4. What went well in this interview?  Why do you think so?  What do you still need to improve?  How do you know?  How will you go about it?

• The interview went very well, my mentor was well prepared and gave explicit answers on his background and experience. The message was clear, captivating at that where I didn't feel bored hearing his knowledge. I probably need to improve on time consumption, often my mentor would get a bit carried away and go off on a longer than expected anecdote which would eat up a significant portion of the interview time frame. I had originally intended for the interview to be 10 minutes but instead ended up being 14 minutes. I plan to deal with this by perhaps interrupting in a polite manner and moving on the the next question. 

Link to interview: https://soundcloud.com/dawson-khoury/interview-2-0

Blog 9 - Advisory Prep 3

1. State whether or not you currently have a mentor, and what the status of your interview is with that person (I have completed the interview, I have scheduled the interview, I have not scheduled the interview, etc).

• Currently I do have a mentor, the same one I've had since the summer. At the current moment I have not scheduled an interview with my mentor nor have I even contacted him about it. I do however plan in the next day or two to contact him and schedule an appropriate date. 

2. At this point, your research is probably guiding your studies toward more specific areas within your topic.  Name the area or two you find most promising and explain your reasons. 

• Two areas come to mind, the restaurant business is one of them in the sense of owning/managing a restaurant. The second area is less specific but a field that offers a lot of promising material to work with, entrepreneurship. This sounds broad at first glance but I have researched and found out that entrepreneurship is not exclusive to any business and is its own practice in of itself.  

3. What kinds of sources do you think will help you in the next month to gain more research depth?  Where will you go to get them?

• The internet has been my reliable source over the last month and a half, I don't see myself shifting from it in the foreseeable future. Experience will be my source in the next month, I plan to engage more in hands on activities from multiple different businesses (i.e. public events, advertising campaigns, and staff duty) and actually learn something that isn't from a computer screen. 

4. Write down a possible EQ.  Please don't worry about wording other than ensuring that it provides the option for multiple correct answers.  At this point, the senior team is most interested in understanding your thought process.

• What is the biggest risk an entrepreneur must take and what they do to overcome it. 

Blog 8: Independent Component 1 Proposal

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

• I plan on looking to different types of businesses to gain hands on experience in. The overall goal is to participate in events involving these different business. I want to help set up events, advertise products, and just have the opportunity to explore something I haven't done before. 

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

• To log my hours I will create a simple spreadsheet similar to that of the mentor ship hours and detail what I've done for my independent component. 

3.  Explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth.

• I will be able to work with experts who understand the field of entrepreneurship better than I do. This gives me the opportunity to interact with experienced businessmen and understand how they got to where they are and why. Hands on experience will also be its own in depth learning, I will participate in social events for car dealerships and possibly even a magazine; I want to not just know what it takes to have/work for a business but also how to sell that business as well.