I had a very constructive and informative career service
event that I attended on job interviewing. The career service was based on
line. The event was a virtual webinar. I have never been a part of something
like it before. The event was live on line were we had to long on. The screen
showed a screen projection of the power point, and the right hand side
consisted of an instant message chat bar where students could interact with the
presenter. The instant message was used by the presenter to ask questions and
to interact with the student quit a bit throughout the presentation. I really
took away a lot from the event, and managed to apply the skills I learned in an
interview I went to on Friday.
The career service event left me with a great amount of
knowledge and confidence in interviewing. The main focus of the event was on
successful interviewing. The presentation had several key elements. One
was the employers rating of the importance of a candidate qualities/skills. I
learned that the communications skills both written and verbal are at the top
of employers list. The second is to do research on the company interviewing
for, so I have general knowledge about the company. Know the companies goals. Learn
and do research on the specific job applying for. The research of the company
should also allow for informed question to ask the employer. Third, is the one
minute rule. Employers form their impressions with in the first minute of
meeting you, so you have to be on your toes. Fourth, is dressing for the job.
You must dress like you want the job! Be clean, talk plainly and clearly, and
have a firm handshake. Lastly, is the open-ended question questions that
employer is going to ask, for example, “tell me about your self”, “what do you
want in a job”, and “what are your strengths and weaknesses”. The presenter
gave great advice on this questions and open-ended question, your response
should be between 30 seconds and a minute long, do not over share, or get to
personal. By far the best advice that I took in was how to answer the “what are
your strengths and weaknesses”. You need to be confident in what you do well,
even if it sounds like you are bragging. The hard part is answering you
weakness. You should pick a legitimate problem, something professional. However
the most important thing is to fallow it up with what are you doing to improve
on it.
Mike, thank you for sharing us what you learned from career service web,which inspires me a lot about interviewing strategies. I was really impressed to see that communication skill including verbal and written skills are on the top of the list. And also the importance that we should bear in mind is to do the research about the companies. That is very important but a lot of people just overlook its importance. Thank you for your blog.
ReplyDeleteGreat advice. Thanks for sharing this with us. I wanted to attend this I think I was a bit intimidated to do it online.
ReplyDeleteBest of luck!