Introduction to Explore Careers by Interviewing Professionals

It can be exciting to think about your possible future career.

One way to find out about a career field you are interested in is to interview someone working in that field.

By conducting an interview, you find out more about the job they do and the day-to-day tasks, challenges, and rewards they experience.

Getting information from someone who actually does the job in the field you are interested in gives you information you can't get elsewhere, and helps you understand what that work is really like.

Before you interview someone, prepare by thinking of the questions you want to ask.

Preparing your questions will help you feel more comfortable and make your interview more effective.

In this lesson, you will think of questions for an interview and save them in a document.

Writing down the questions will help you remember what to ask.

You will then be able to add the person’s responses during the interview so you can review them later.

As you complete this project in Google Docs, you will: Create and name a new document, Choose a person to interview, Add interview questions to your document, And conduct an interview.

This lesson uses Google Docs, but you could apply these skills and concepts in any word processing application or even on a piece of paper.

To work on this lesson, sign in to your Google account.

Open a new tab in your browser, and navigate to Google.com.

If you are not signed in, do so now.

If you do not have a Google account, pause the video and create one.

To begin, open your Google Drive.

Next, create a new document and rename it.

Then, move on to the next video about choosing someone to interview.

Now, it’s your turn: Open a new document, and rename the document.