In 2006, I retired from a 37 year career helping students, clients and patients manage their careers, and started a personal history services business - poor cousin to documentary film-making to me. When my elderly parents moved in with us I had my first personal history subjects. Six projects later and a new studio location has led me to focus on recording stories of artistic, academic and career success, producing video clips that serve multiple purposes. Had I visited the career center and interviewed documentary film-makers back when I realized that med school was not for me, I might have become a documentary film-maker. But I was shy, an introvert by nature and did not explore other majors. Instead I went to grad school and became a career counselor; of course. Dick Bolles first coined the term informational interview 40 years ago. It is now a staple in every career counselor’s tool-box. It's apparent from discussions on the LinkedIn career services groups I follow, that getting students, especially introverted or shy students, to do them is still a challenge for career staff. That is a need I can relate to, so I developed infointerviewsims.com, a mobile site to help students prepare for their informational interviews by responding to video and audio simulations. When it was active, the site provided resources for college and university career centers to create on-line courses: a career research project with performance simulations and a template for an electronic career portfolio to store academic and career asset information, including edited clips of simulation responses; clips that may also be posted on LinkedIn Profiles or VisualCVs.Specialties: Interview simulations; project design and management; project-based learning; cooperative education; career guidance; video editing (Final Cut Pro and iMovie series); video and audio recording (Panasonic AG100 and SONY Handicam);
Listed skills include Teaching, Editing, Interviews, Career Counseling, and 18 others.