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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Why Should I Hire You?


An interview process is never easy, and it will never get any easier. But I do know that one can only become better within an interview. 

In my experience of last week’s interview I thought I did terrible compared to other interviews I have been in. I think I did well in my presence to Tara, who interviewed me. My back was straight, I kept my hands in front of me, and I was commented on how well I kept my eye contact. Although my attitude was great, I know that the one question that I struggled completely on was “Why should I hire you?” I was repetitive on the idea of my leadership skills, since I did mention that proficiency early in the interview. When I have future interviews I will try to be consistent with my answers to the best of my ability. The key to a successful interview is to be capable in selling myself. I believe that this activity remarkable. 


It assisted me and my peers in being proficient with our interview skills. In order to acquire a career of our interest we must be able to do more than well in our interviews. Although the wait to be interviewed and the whole process were disorganized and confusing, the exercise was helpful in every way. Even though I felt that I have been in better mock interviews in the past; last week’s experience was still great and I learned more about myself.

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Filly Brown

Filly Brown was such a powerful an amazing movie. I have never been to a film festival before, so I am honored to have attended this one with my fellow Price Scholars. The movie was great, even though it wasn't the best movie I have seen, it was still an outstanding movie.

What did stand out to me the most was actually seeing the actors/actresses and listening to the questions the audience gives, as well as the answers. One person from City College mentioned our school and asked for words of advice, or something motivational to keep the students in school and to follow their dreams.

I honestly forgot every detail and what the answers were, but all I know is; at that exact moment, I felt surprised and out of this world. I wish I had a good memory of what they said because I just felt absolutely amazed.

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

"IT"


Is that a girl or a boy? And you smile because today maybe you might just pass. But then you see their eyes register no facial hair, no knot in your throat, no bulge in your pants. They say it again, louder, tauntingly.
Is that a girl or a boy. This time they know the answer and they just want to see you squirm. And you do. And they snicker. 
“IT” performed by Kavindu “Kavi” Ade.
There are no words for the emotions that this video causes. 

That was the description I saw of this video when I was scrolling through my Tumblr dashboard. As the person who commented said, There are seriously no words to how I felt all throughout watching this video. It was such a powerful open word that I wanted to cry. I know there was no blog assignment for the week, but this was honestly too powerful to not share with everybody

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

How to evaluate success

Tell me about yourself.
I am Cassandra Francisco, a punctual, dependable, hardworking individual with great leadership skills and . I am currently receiving a Price Scholarship to attend San Diego City college.

Describe a difficult work situation/project and how you overcame it.
When I was in high school, I volunteered with my school's JROTC at Qualcomm Stadium to work as traffic directors for Charger games. As I was working, I had to direct incoming traffic to drive a certain way to park their cars. Unfortunately, there were angry drivers who always wanted their way and wanted to drive the opposite direction where we weren't allowed to have cars pass through. There was one driver who literally stepped outside of his car and ran up to me screaming at me. I told him I was sorry I could not let him pass through, then my adviser came and handled the rest of the situation.

How do you evaluate success?I believe success is the quality of work an individual has performed. It isn't about how fast or in what time frame an activity was taken. Success is how well the individual took the task and performed way above his or her expectations. Success is about how far the individual was willing to go in order to make the task almost perfect.


Tuesday, February 26, 2013

You Got Serviced Pt. 2

Quality customer service is difficult to find these days. I don't know if there was ever a time where I had perfect customer service.

Before I received my driver's license, I signed up for a driving school that was offered at my school for $189 for both the driving school, and the Behind the Wheel. At first, it was a great idea considering that BTW is pretty expensive and it offered both services.

When I passed my permit test I then called the driving school to schedule BTW dates; little did I know that they had horrible customer service. When my mom called the school,  they put her on hold for ONE HOUR. One hour! I eventually received a schedule for my BTW, but the customer service was horrible. They seriously did not know what they were doing, and their schedules were all over the place. When I had my actual BTW, I ended up having two sessions with my instructor; but the school filled me up for having all my driving hours, when in reality, I only have four hours. I hated my experience with this driving school, and never recommended it to anybody I knew.