INTERVIEW QUESTIONNAIRE 

If you would like to contribute to these pages, please write up a free form interview about yourself similar to the ones you see on the Interviews page. You may use the questions below as guidelines, or invent your own topics. Your input is greatly appreciated for this article, and the more you can share within it the better the article will become. Please email your interview to kellie-bea@kellie-bea.com.

Thank you and enjoy,

Kellie-Bea Cooper

NOTE: If you are a student, substitute all questions that refer to “job and company” to “school and department”.

NOTE #2:  For Men: Please consider answering all questions relating to “Women” from a co-workers point of view.  Then try answers the same questions by substituting the word “Man” instead on Woman. 

    1. Full name, company, position, production credits
    2. What was your background experience like, and why computer visual media?
    3. How many years have you been involved in computer visual media?
    4. In your end of your industry, how many women are employed?
    5. How many women work in your immediate department, how many men?
    6. Over the years, has the women work force grown any?
    7. Do you have any set-backs in this industry because you're a woman? Do you have any benefits?
    8. Is discrimination applied to you at all within this industry?
    9. Do you find the career realm of computer visual media much tougher being a woman?
    10. In your opinion, is this industry in the market for more women involvement?
    11. How many years have you attended industry conferences or special interest groups, like VES, SIGGRAPH, or others? Name the ones you recommend and why.
    12. Which conferences or special interest groups did you attend this year?
    13. At these conferences or special interest groups, did you see more women attendees or participants then you would have generally imagined?
    14. What did you find most interesting this year at these conferences or special interest groups?
    15. If you were to create a venue for an upcoming conference or special interest group what would it be?
    16. In your opinion, tell me what you thought of this year’s conferences or special interest groups as a whole.
    17. What sorts of things do you enjoy away from literal work?
    18. Do you have and support a family? If so how do you manage?
    19. What are your future goals?
    20. What advice can you give to up-and-coming women interested in working in this industry?
    21. If you had one quote you could choose it either live by or share, what would it be?