For one of my internships, I decided to accept the offered position as the Operations Coordinator for the youth programming department at a local nonprofit in South Philadelphia. I decided to take on the position because it did not complete align with my career interest and so I could get different experiences that a regular company or corporation could not offer. In addition to that, it was a great opportunity to give back to the community. The different things that experience during my time at the organization in my role as Operation Coordinator certainly relates to our ethics class. I was in charge of two contracts which brought in a substantial amount of funding into organization. Due to the fact that we were often limited in the amount of resources, it was hard to run youth programs…
One mock interview was with Cigna and another was with Comcast. Although I have interviewed for real position many times, it didn’t occur to me until I took Business Ethics that some of the STAR questions which are asked in interviews is related to ethical decisions and the corporate culture. In other words, these questions allow the interviewer to see if the interviewee’s ethical decisions is a good match or fit for the culture of that company with which he/she is interviewing. A good example of an ethical question asked in one of the mock interviews was “how does an ethical individual differ from an ethical corporation?” The answer here was that it there was no difference because it is us ethical individual which makes up an ethical corporation. I have also noticed that other questions such as “tell me about a time where there was a problem with a individual in a group project’ is subjective in that the only answer (regardless of whether you decide to do all the work and ignore this issue or report the individual to the professor) that is correct is the one which fits or matches what someone in that corporation would…
