Career Stress Exercise 2 (CSE2)

Objective:  The purpose of this assignment is to predict stressors in your chosen field/work or in occupations in general.

Career Professional  Interview & Publication

Directions: In this assignment you are to interview a professional whose full-time job is working in the profession to determine the types of stressors encountered in her/his job and to categorize each type of stressor.

For this assignment you must:

a. Find one research article (journal article, book section, internet article, etc.) concerning stress/stressors that you are likely to encounter in your chosen field. 

b.  design an interview form with questions you are to ask the professional which is, at least in part, based on the information in the article. 

c. interview the professional

After the interview:

1. write an essay, summarizing the types of stressors encountered by the professional and compare the professional's responses with the stressors mentioned in your publication.

2. write an APA-style bibliography for the source.

3. attach a copy of the interview questions AND the interviewee's responses to the back of the assignment along with a copy of the articles with the relevant material used for the interview questions "highlighted" in the article.