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.