Blog 11- Holiday Project Update

1. What I did over the Winter Break with my mentorship was oddly extensive. Half of winter break the office was suppose to be closed for the "Holiday's" but in law, there is never any real holiday breaks. When the office was closed, my mentor continued going to the office as usual, and every once in a while instead of doing the work at the office, we would do the work at home. Oh the perks of having your father as your mentor...

2. What I learned while working over the break is that people in the real world never actually take "vacations." I guess that shouldn't have come as such a shock to me, but it did. I always took for granted my free time, but when observing my mentor typing on the keyboard furiously, I took a hard look at how good I have it in school. I-Poly gives us breaks and vacations, and every once in a while they give us a taste of the real world by assigning us homework over the breaks, but it is rare. At the office, the employee's did not come to the office, but my mentor did which just comes to show. If you want to be the boss, you have to work like one.

3. If we were going to do a 10 Question Interview on questions related to answers for my EQ who would we ask and why?... This is a sort of confusing question to wrap your head around because we usually ask questions to try and get answers to our EQ, and this blog post is assuming that we already know answers to our E.Q. which is risky because I have not completely solidified the answers to my E.Q. yet, but here are some questions relating to my tentative E.Q. answers referred to in my Blog 8. I chose to write two questions because it is important to know the types of questions that will be asked to my interviewer to understand why I am asking that particular person.

• Is being kept well informed of the status of one immigration case the most important factor in your opinion of a clients positive attitude during the process of winning their case?
• If a client is involved in the process of working on their case by for example, retrieving papers from their past, do you feel this will impact the confidence of a client during the process of their case being won?

I would choose to ask an associate of my mentor, his name is Enrico. Although not a certified (he did not chose to pass the bar exam) attorney himself, he does work very closely with my father. He has worked in the immigration practice far longer than my father so I feel that his knowledge and experience would come into play when answering these type of customer service questions.