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OFP Interview Questions

The document provides interview questions for people pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The questions are divided into three sections: (1) the interviewee's personal and educational background, (2) their specific STEM career path and experiences, and (3) reflections on their career and advice for others considering STEM. Some of the questions ask about family influences, education, role models, and hobbies related to STEM as well as the interviewee's job duties and motivations, accomplishments, and thoughts on changes in their field over time. The final questions focus on whether they would repeat their career and recommend STEM to others.

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OFP Interview Questions

The document provides interview questions for people pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The questions are divided into three sections: (1) the interviewee's personal and educational background, (2) their specific STEM career path and experiences, and (3) reflections on their career and advice for others considering STEM. Some of the questions ask about family influences, education, role models, and hobbies related to STEM as well as the interviewee's job duties and motivations, accomplishments, and thoughts on changes in their field over time. The final questions focus on whether they would repeat their career and recommend STEM to others.

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INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

for
OUR FUTURE PAST Interviewees

STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics. Science, in the context of careers, can include a research
scientist conducting experiments in a laboratory or in the field. Technology can include those directly engaged in
creating new applications of scientific understandings embedded in a technology such as semiconductors or operating
technologically complex systems such as . Engineering can include any activity that constructs or manufactures in some
systematic way. Mathematics careers can include computer scientists working on computing devices or new ways of
working with very large data sets such as in digital data warehousing.

Setting & the Interviewee's Career Context

In broad strokes, please outline your personal background before you entered your STEM career.

What family background do you come from?

Where did you grow up?

In broad strokes, please outline the path that led to your STEM career such as education, training & experiences.

Did your family actively encourage you during your early years to pursue STEM or did you come to it on your own?

What is the earliest STEM-related activity you remember participating in?

Did you have a particular school teacher or mentor that strongly influenced you in pursuing STEM?

During your youth, did you visit science museums, participate in a science fair at school, or attend or participate in a
science festival in the wider community?

What advice or perspective, if any, do you want to convey to a person of any age today that wants to pursue STEM-
related education, career, or hobbies/activities?

The Interviewee's STEM Career

Which STEM field did you work in and why did you make that choice?

What did it mean to you to be in a STEM field in general and in that specific one? How did it make you feel to be a part
of it?

Other than the objectives and goals of your job, what larger goals for society, if any, did you feel you were contributing
to?

Was it 'only a job' or did you have an emotional attachment to the work?

What was your greatest triumph in your STEM career?


What was your lowest disappointment?

Did you have any DIY or craft hobbies/activities, either in your youth or during your STEM career?

What is the most fun you had during your STEM career?

Do you keep up with the field of your former career, or other STEM fields, through science media now that you are
retired?

What change or discovery in your STEM field surprised you the most during your working life?

Summary & WrapUp

Would you do it all again? Would you repeat your career? If not, please explain?

Would you recommend your STEM field to a young person or adult career-changer today?

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