Answer To: Weight: 40% Assignment due date: Friday 3 August 2018 Length: 2000 words (inclusive of Parts A and...
Soumi answered on Dec 07 2020
INFORMATION INTERVIEW AND REFLECTIVE REPORT
Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Part A: Informative Interview 3
Part B: Reflecting on Informative Interview 5
Bandura’s Social Learning Theory 6
Krumboltz’s Learning Theory of Career Choice 6
Conclusion 8
References 9
Introduction
Consulting with a person in the desired sector helps students develop a better idea in besides academic knowledge. A person engaged in a particular industrial sector offers accurate knowledge about the experience a person gains on daily basis, identifying relevant areas of focus based on experience.
Part A: Informative Interview
The following set of questions are asked to a person who has ample experience in oil exploration and production company as an engineers and has willingly volunteered to sit for the interview.
Name of the Interviewee: Asad ALKalbani
Designation: Control and Instrumentation Engineer
Name of Organisation: Petroleum Development Oman
Asad ALKalbani had started his career of becoming an engineer from the high school, who took pre-engineering as one of the major subjects. After realising, the sheer passion for engineering Asad started pursuing his graduation degree in mechanical engineering. During his final year of graduation, the placement process started, which secured him a job in Petroleum Development Oman through interview. The company appointed him as instrument maintenance Engineer. During the first two years of his employment, he worked hard as he pursued his Master’s Degree and served part time at the job. The company gave him the opportunity to pursue his higher degrees and after the completion of his Master’s Degree, he joined as a full time staffs. It took him two years before he was promoted to the post of Control and Instrumentation Engineer.
The high flow of work and the responsibility of attending the requirements of the staffs make the process very hectic and the days are generally fast paced. As mentioned by Pettersen (2014), the high posts in organisations does not require much manual labour, however, the responsibility makes the tasks very rigorous mentally, and requires the person in responsibility active throughout the duty hours. Asad in the first half of his daily tasks prepares the schedule for the following day and works on the computer regarding the planning, designing as well as suggestion evaluations for future projects. In the second half, however, Asad ensures that the employees working under his directions are moving in the right direction in terms of their abidance to safety precautions and directs them being present at the spot.
As per the perspective of Asad, one of the positive side of being an engineer in a company such as Petroleum Development Oman, is the high salary paid, accounting an average of US$100,000 per year. Asad also mentions that the bonus for overtime and good performance makes the earning figure even higher. As mentioned by Shi and Sicular (2010), paying of high salary makes the employees motivated and their future secure as the employees become capable of sustaining all facilities. In addition, the high respect given in the society for working as an engineer is beneficial as well. On the down side the high stress of the job that is generated from longer duty hours and tight deadlines as well as the limited scope of career growth are major drawbacks, according to Asad.
Taking note of the comments of Asad and the range of tasks, he performs, it can be ascertained that a range of skills are required to be an engineer in a large organisation. As per Asad’s knowledge, a candidate aspiring towards becoming an engineer requires must possess the skill to put the theoretical learning into practical practice. As supported by Abualoush et al. (2018), a good employee is one who knows how to use theoretical learning for workplace requirement fulfilment. In addition, Asad mentioned that the capability of maintaining deadline of work, capacity of communicating with colleagues and solve issues at the workplace consistently are essential.
Change of trend in business is very common and Asad had noticed that in the recent years the use of Artificial intelligence has increase manifold. As mentioned by Lu et al. (2018), artificial intelligence is the future of human civilisation, although it is also the threat to employability of an ever-increasing global population. Asad had to learn the ways of using artificial intelligence in the office for simulations of newly designed models and the future aspirant in the field, who have the knowledge of computer, will be benefitted as the future of engineer would require the use of computer as a must.
Asad, based on the experience he has gather in his career and as stated by Nesje et al. (2018) are of the opinion that companies such as automobile, aeronautics, aviation, oil and petroleum, production and manufacturing, are some of the most potent career opportunities available for mechanical engineers. Asad made it very clear that companies that are into mechanical needs...