Professional Interview Reflection

On March 2, 2018 I completed an interview with a communications professional. In this memo, I will analysis the interview including what went will, what surprised me, and overall what I learned. I will discuss the environment of the interview and all the communication details from our exchange.

General Information

When looking for a professional to interview, I wanted someone that fit two different things. First, I was looking for someone local because this is a great opportunity to grow my network and potentially build a job lead. Next, I wanted to find someone who was in the field or near the field of public relations. I went on LinkedIn and connected with several different professionals that met my criteria. I was most interested in talking

We had already begun the conversation, where I mentioned some of the reasons why I chose her for the interview and what the assignment for this class was about. Due to this, I wanted to make sure to try to limit as much repeated information as possible. I was not nervous to begin or end the interview, because the conversation was really easy. Ms. Amstadt is about two years older than my sister, so the conversation was similar to a conversation with my sister. It was formal, but a very causal formal. This made everything easy. To end, I used my official statement, because it was something that I wanted to make sure that I got right. By choosing this, I made sure not to leave the end open for any additional questions, but confidently signal the end of the

Everything was very positive from maintaining excellent eye contact to taking active notes to help me ask better questions, we continued to have a very positive theme throughout. Just like in a phone interview, I tried to continue to smile, as I asked questions, which was another way I was able to establish a positive theme. Throughout the interview, it was easy to tell that we were both talking about things that we are passionate about. There was a genuine interest in the topics that we discussed. I know this, because we both had very excited tones and there were not a lot of long pauses in between questions. It felt more like one long conversation, rather than an interview. I believe this came from Ms. Amstadt being so easy going with me. I felt like anything I asked would be a good question, all of that took away any nerves that I had early on. The inviting nonverbal expressions allowed me to keep the conversation constantly going and that led to different things. Some of them were scripted questions, while others ended up being personal stories, but all of the aspects of my conversation with Ms. Amstadt were