Faye Nguyen
36865471
11/06/2013
Assignment 7
1.Name, title, company, business address and business phone number of the individual you
interviewed.
Paul k Nguyen
HSBC
330 Madison st, NY 5th floor
(212) 525-6695
2. Date, time and length of your interview.
November 06,2013, at 1pm and about 20 minutes.
3. What is your concentration?
I didn’t pick a concentration yet, so I’m still looking around.
4. You career objective?
I want to be a nurse after I graduated from UB, but if that doesn’t work out then I’m
looking a career where I can investigate/monitor or audit people’s banking account.
5. Why you selected this particular individual for the interview.
I picked Paul K Nguyen for my interview because I know that he graduated with a
bachelor degree in Political Science but work at HSBC bank to prevent frauds is similar to
internal auditing. Auditing by preventing any kind of frauds the company might get into and
that is always interesting. My favorite part of business field is about fraud or crime. I think Paul
is the perfect person to interview due to my interest in criminal justice in the business field.
6. General background information concerning the interviewee: degree, years in current
position, etc. (Do not ask about interviewee’s salary.)
Paul have a bachelor degree in criminal justice/ political science at Buffalo State and he
have been with HSBC bank for about a year already.
7. What kinds of technical and people skills are necessary to do well in this career and why are
they necessary?
The skills that are necessary to do well are attention to details, analytical, observing, and
writing. It is very important to pay attention to details, and analyzing the database because it is
very easy to overlook something so simple yet so important. Investigation is one of the key skill
that is necessary too because this job is mostly about investigating frauds. If you don’t know
how to investigate then how are you going to find evidence and such?
8. Why did you choose this company to work for, and what did you do beforehand (research or
other) to help make your decision?
Paul said HSBC is a place where there are opportunity to grow within the workplace. You
don’t have to be stuck doing the same thing over and over again. They encourage new ideas,
and training to learn new skills. He said HSBC spend a lot of time on training new employee that
is why he feel so comfortable there like a family. Yes, he did do some research into HSBC and
realized this is a great opportunity to build his resume with new skills and work experiences.
9. What are the primary tasks performed for this position, what percentage of the day is spent
in each of these primary tasks, and which task is most challenging?
The primary tasks according to Paul is looking for red flags transaction related to money
laundering or terrorist financing. That just mean looking for anything that is suspicious in a
banking account across the United States. Keep close attention to huge currency transaction
from one account to another. Also background investigating if they suspect anything that look
suspicious. About 25% of the day is spent on these tasks. The task that is most challenging is
finding the little clue to report it back to the field officer who are in charge. Is is not easy to find
clue or evidence to report it.
10. What is the work environment like? (hours, facilities, co-workers, culture)
The environment is professional where people work independently. The culture is very
diverse as in races and genders. Co-workers are friendly and tends to keep it to themselves. The
hours can be pretty long if tasks are not meet and sometimes overtime hour occur because
they requires it.
11. What are the most significant recent industry changes that have affected your job/career
field?
Paul said the most significant recent industry changes that had affected his job field is
going from federal government to a corporate world. He learned a lot about the corporate
function as in the business world since HSBS is a well-known international bank.
12. What are some of the more interesting projects/assignments you have had, and why did
you find them interesting?
He got to investigate entities tie to money laundering or terrorist. I find that fascinating
about investigating about terrorist in this corporate world. Not like you can track or get the
opportunity to do that on a daily basis.
13. What do you like and dislike most about your job?
Good pay is very important and according to Paul flexible hour is one of the plus why he
say with the company. Those two are very important factors that we needs to consider when it
com to finding a job. What he dislike most is the workload can be routine, like doing the same
thing over and over again which get pretty boring. A challenge in the workplace can be good
because it motivate us to do better.
14. Are there anyone who work there are audit?
His answer is yes, there are some workers who are audit. This proves to me that
auditing is a pretty broad career where you can work with FBI agent and law enforcement.
Auditing doesn’t mean you have to work for the bank or small or big company but you get to
investigate on something that is so big such as terrorism.
15. What did you learn from the interview?
I learned most about this interview is that auditing can be a broad field. Even though
Paul didn’t graduated with a business degree but he can still work in the corporate world. He
told me with a business degree such as finance or auditing can be useful in his field of
investigating terrorist and fraud. I find his field very interesting and it is something that I want
to look into if nursing didn’t work out for me. He also told me to expand my career choice and
open myself to different field because he used to work for the federal government but now
working for the corporate world. Never limit yourself and always seek out for new skills
because in the future those skills will come in handy.