Interview questions:

1. What is your job title?

CEO

2. What is your job description?

To help grow the company and make sure everyone moves toward the strategic direction that we have set up.

What are the duties and/or tasks you perform at your job?

Creates strategic plans for the whole company and ensures that the organization structure works for the different teams set up. Smooths out the operations of the business, and making sure to understand the market that they serve, and how they can serve them better. He also does a big of finical planning.

What qualifications do you have for this job in the following areas:

a) training?
Mostly from experience

b) education?
A 4-year bachelor’s degree in computing science at SFU

c) experience?
Working in multiple start ups and large companies and learning and failing from that.

d) skills and attributes (personal qualities)?
Leadership, organization, persistence, and Entrepreneural.

What are some of the things you like about the job?
There are always new problems to solve, and its not easy.

What are some of the things you dislike about this job?
Dealing with unreasonable people.

How do you think this job changing in the next 5 years or so? T
he job won’t change much but the strategies will.

Student reflection:

1. Give three reasons why you would like this job (be specific): 

1. A) It is really easy to work at home and have a flexible schedule in case something comes up
2. B) You get to problem solve and work with new technology
   c)  You get to meet new people and work with cool new artificial intelligence 

1. Give three reasons why you would not like this job (be specific): 

1. a)    There is a lot of sitting down in this job, and being at a desk all day, which can be very tiring sometimes.
2. b)    You are always on a device all the time, and you don’t get to do a lot of interacting with others face to face
3. c) You don’t get physical activity during work

1. Is this job for you? Why or why not? 

I like this job and I feel like it would be a suit me well to work in the technology type of jobs. I like how there is a healthy work life balance, and how you have a pretty flexible schedule to work with. I also really am really interested about how there are always unfamiliar problems that need to be solved. Overall this job really interest me.

1. Explain the value of the TYKTW experience in relation to your ideas about your post-secondary (after high school) plans (education? training? travel? work?). 

It really makes you think more about what you want to do after you are done with high school, and what you look for in jobs. It helps you see what types of jobs there are out in the economy and which ones you feel match your values and interests.