INTERVIEW FORM

Questions:

1. What is your name and what made you apply for this position?
 I’m Tosca Clarice F. Bernardino. I applied for the Guidance Mentor position because I
have always been interested in counseling and I know that it is where I can apply my
knowledge, skills and abilities.
2. Would you give us a summary of your work history and education?
 I took up BS Psychology for college and am now pursuing my MA in Psychology. I
have worked for a few months in the industrial setting as an HR, but now, I am on my
second year in the educational setting as a school counselor.
3. What special aspects of your work experience have prepared you for this job?
 Aside from my passion, my knowledge, different encounters and entire exposure in
counseling.
4. Can you describe one or two of your most important accomplishments?
 Nothing specific. It’s just really knowing that I am able to help someone feel better
about themselves after we have a dialogue
5. What are your strong points for this job?
 For me, counseling is not really just a job, but a call for service and it’s what makes it
even more fulfilling.
6. What would you say are the areas needing improvement?
 Personally, I would say I still have a lot to improve and that’s why I am studying and
acquiring more experience so I can learn over time and be able to efficiently deliver
my duties as a guidance mentor.
7. Do you prefer working alone or in groups?
 I prefer working alone most of the time.
8. What kind of people do you find most difficult about your work and why?
 As a guidance mentor, it is difficult to have a dialogue to someone who’s not willing
to open up and disclose information about herself.
9. What is the level of relationship that you have with your co-workers? How could you
improve it?
 I would say I have good relationship with my co-workers because we all get along well.
I could improve it by continuously being a genuine friend to them, and being someone
they can truly depend on.
10. In your present job, what approach do you take to get people together to establish a
common approach to a problem?
 No, particular approach. For me, it depends on what situation is presented. As much as
possible, I try to allow everyone to carefully think on their own and then share within
the group to discuss and agree on a common goal.
11. What approach do you take in getting your people to accept your ideas or department
goals?
 It’s being completely honest about my ideas, telling them the strong and weak points
and also how we can make up for or improve the weak ones. It’s just really sharing my
perspective and respecting their response to it.
12. In your opinion, what is the role of communication in building or developing a workplace
or career?
 Communication plays a huge role in everything. It allows people to efficiently connect
with each other and work on things together.
13. What were your presumptions about the job that made you realize their differences in
reality?
 I thought it was going to be hard but in reality, it was harder, because you get to have
an impact to other people’s lives. Somehow, you get to influence how they think, feel
and behave, because they trust you.
14. What are some terms that you use that are only restricted within your field? Could you
define them? How often are they being used?
 Not much jargons because we communicate with non-counselors so we use everyday
language for everyone. Maybe the Catharsis, Complementarity, Correlation
Coefficient, Heuristic, Double-blind Study, Individualism, Priming, Psychopathology,
Schizophrenia.
15. What is your advice for those people who would like to get in the same field as yours?
  You have to make sure that your heart is really for this. Because you only become
efficient in counseling if you are sincere and you truly want it. It gets tiring, and
draining at times, but it’s fulfilling.

INTERVIEW FORM

Questions:
1. What is your name and what made you apply for this position?
 My name is Jaymidge A. Suyo. I am a licensed Psychometrician and I chose this
profession because I believe that my skillset and my attitude towards analyzing
people are greatly affected by me analyzing psychological tests.
2. Would you give us a summary of your work history and education?
 I studied Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology and it made me immersed to
different fields in psychology such as industrial, educational and psychiatric field.
With those immersions, my knowledge in psychology broadened, specially in Human
Resource (HR) corporate field which is also termed as industrial field. I was exposed
in different types of psychological tests being used in a Human Resource (HR)
department. It helps in knowing how to distinguish certain candidates to be qualified
enough for a position needed by a company.
3. What special aspects of your work experience have prepared you for this job?
 As of what I mentioned in my immersion, my eyes were opened especially with my
on the job training (OJT) with the mental institution which made me more patient,
understanding and knowledgeable when it comes to psychological testing. When I
had my first job, which was an HR assistant because I chose the industrial field of
psychology, it made me realize more that we really need candidates or applicants that
would fit enough for a certain position.
4. Can you describe one or two of your most important accomplishments?
 I was able to conduct a psychological report about a certain student when I had my
work with a guidance counselor. I made a psychological report on how he was during
his student days while having issues, which made me use some psychological tests
that resulted on how the child is, was, and will be in the future.
5. What are your strong points for this job?
 I am currently a HR assistant and I believe that my understanding and my skill set
with psychological testing help me understand people more whenever I communicate
with them, especially applicants. It made me realize that people are distinguished by
their personalities, traits and on how they manage pressure when it comes to
workloads and handling tasks that will be given to them.
6. What would you say are the areas needing improvement?
 It would be my knowledge when it comes to giving applicants tests because I want to
know more about other aspects so that I could use them to determine whether the
person is qualified enough for the job that they are applying for.
7. Do you prefer working alone or in groups?
 I love working alone, but I don’t mind working in groups.
8. What kind of people do you find most difficult about your work and why?
 People who are inconsiderate and those who think about themselves more than other
people within the because I believe that, when it comes to human resource or even the
world itself, we should be responsible enough to give other people chances.
Especially in my field in psychology, we really need to understand people more
because people are different when it comes to their personalities, attributes, traits, or
skillsets, so we have to give more chances for those who are trying, those who want
to be better, those who want to contribute, especially when it comes to the company,
and those people who really strives to get a job. So, I think that I would really like to
work with people who would give applicants and candidates more chances because
those people would not apply if they don’t really want to get the job.
9. What is the level of relationship that you have with your co-workers? How could you
improve it?
 I had various work experiences and I had really close relationships with my co-
workers and as of the moment, I have my new job and I believe that we are getting
closer than just being colleagues or acquittances.
10. In your present job, what approach do you take to get people together to establish a
common approach to a problem?
  What we do is we have a brainstorming and try to give each other chances to speak
up their minds, whether it is an idea or and opinion about current situations and
whether or not there is a problem so that we could solve it together.
11. What approach do you take in getting your people to accept your ideas or department
goals?
 As a team member, I try to listen first to their ideas and when I know that my idea
would greatly contribute, not only to me, but also the group, I would share them mine
and would try and convince them by showing them series of procedures and
evidences that would guarantee them that my idea would work and would help us to
improve and do something great.
12. In your opinion, what is the role of communication in building or developing a
workplace or career?
 Communication, as we all say it, is the key, but it’s not just about communication. It’s
also about comprehension, about us understanding each other, not just by speaking
our minds or listening to other people, we also need to understand each other and
know our certain situations. Communication really helps with both the department
and everyone, especially when there are existing conflicts regarding our work, we
really need to talk about both the problem and solution.
13. What were your presumptions about the job that made you realize their differences in
reality?
 When I was studying, I expected that it will just be me giving out tests to candidates
or to anyone who would take the tasks, but then I got immersed and was exposed to
different settings. It’s not just about taking and analyzing psychological tests; it’s
about how you would deal with those people who are going to take the test. I
experienced this when I was having my on the job training with a mental institution. I
was trying to give a child a psychological test and it was not that easy on how you
would give it to a child who doesn’t even know anything about the psychological test,
then you would construct that child on how he or she will answer this and that. So it
made me realize that this profession would not only contribute to me as a
psychometrician who just gives tests and analyze them, but it also greatly affects my
personality as someone who should really be careful on how to interact with anyone,
 whether it would be with a child or with an intellectually disabled person, we should
be careful. I, myself, realize that I should be careful in dealing with everyone.
14. What are some terms that you use that are only restricted within your field? Could you
define them? How often are they being used?
 Cognitive Psychology, Mental Processes, Cognition, Phobia, Placebo Effect, Theory,
Variable, Altruism, Collectivism, Conformity, Culture.
15. What is your advice for those people who would like to get in the same field as yours?
 My advice for those who wants to strive and achieve in the field of psychology is to
stop stereotyping and focus more on helping each other. Let’s try and give each other
more chances and less judgements. It’s up to you on how you would interpret it, but
for those who are aiming to be a psychometrician like me, do your best, especially in
researching and interpreting different psychological tests.