Name: Sophia F Advisory#: 2

Name of your host: Robin Furby Relationship to you: Biological Father

1. What is your job title?
My dad is a University instructor and the vice chair of the graduate program in the school of business.

2. What is your job description?
My dad oversees the operation and development of the graduate programs within the school of business at Capilano University, this includes two international post-baccalaureate programs and a master’s degree.

3. What are the duties and/or tasks you perform at your job?
On a daily basis my dad manages the questions and the queries of the two hundred international students, and thirty faculty members. He also oversees the growth and development of the business programs for international students.

4. What qualifications do you have for this job in the following areas:
a) training?
My dad didn’t have to have to take any training courses to get his job as it is based on your experience that makes you qualified for your position.

b) education?
An undergraduate and a master’s degree.

c) experience?
Minimum of five years teaching experience including teaching and program management for international students.

d) skills and attributes (personal qualities?)
For skills, you need strong communication abilities, effective conflict resolution skills, and you need to be able to balance the needs of multiple stake holders. For personal qualities, you need to have the ability to collaborate with others, have a strong work ethic, and have the ability to demonstrate a range of appropriate leadership skills.

5. What are some of the things you like about the job?
He likes that he has the opportunity to guide, nurture, and develop students, as well as to share in the celebration of their accomplishments.

6. What are some of the things you dislike about this job?
The management of International post-secondary education is often time consuming and emotionally complex due to the number of academic and personal challenges the international students encounter.

7. How do you anticipate this job changing in the next 5 years or so?
As the international student market continues to grow, this position will evolve to reflect and accommodate the development of a broader range of academic program offerings.

Student Reflections:
1. Give three reasons why you would like this job (be specific):
a) I think I would I like this job because of how many different kinds of people I would have the opportunity to meet from all over the world.

b) I think I would like this job because I would get the opportunity to help students to not only grow as a person, but flourish in their future.

c) I think I would like this job because of how I would have to utilized my skills to solve different challenges.

Give three reasons why you would not like this job (be specific):
a) one reason why I would not like this job would be that every day will always bring a new challenge and or problem.

b) Another reason I wouldn’t like this job would be that although don’t know what I want to do with my life, I do know that I want to incorporate my passion for horses into it.

c) I wouldn’t like this job because of the all the commuting I would have to do, when the traffic is bad, it takes my dad over an hour just to get home.

2. Is this job for you? Why or why not?
This job is not for me because I just can’t see myself standing in a class room teaching something that I’m not exactly passionate about. Also, if I were to become a teacher of a sort, I would prefer to teach younger children. If I were to become a teacher, I would want to teach something that is equine based as I want to incorporate my passion for horses into my life one way or another.

3. Explain the value of the TYKTW experience in relation to your ideas about your post-secondary (after high school) plans (education?, training?, travel?, work?).
I think this experience was very useful in the sense of understanding what a post-secondary education might look and be like. I got to sit in on one of the design classes and see how a university course works at Capilano University, and maybe hold it open as one of my options for when I start to look for my post-secondary education. Overall, this experience took off a lot of pressure about what I’m going to do after high school and helped me to understand a bit more about what my future may look like.