Interviewing 101 | Origin: CS120
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Interviewing 101
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This is a great resource tool to help students prep for interviewing with employers
This lesson was super helpful for breaking down the interview process for students, I especially liked the example questions to ask at the end.
This lesson had a lot of valuable information, such as how your professional image should be portrayed before you arrive to the actual interview. One thing I did feel I would have liked to learn more about is a practice interview section.
Providing students mock interviews, professional resumes and having a thank you letter is important to getting employed in their field.
I found this lesson excellent. I am enthusiastic about the idea of creating lesson plan focused asissting better the students before, during and after the interviewing process.
One important thing that I learned is that an interview is ultimately a conversation between two professionals, so it is very important to conduct research and ask appropriate questions related to the company and the job to set you apart from the other candidates.
Enjoyed the lesson. Great tips that we can use to assist our students.
Great lesson! Great teaching/Coaching tool!
This lesson definitely helped me gain a new perspective of what our students experience at the end of our programs. I feel like I have the tools to help students in the interview process from start to finish by providing them this knowledge and being able to support them to success.
This was awesome. We implented mock interviews a while back and this will give us the ability to improve on that.
Great advice! We teach a lot of these interviewing tactics to our students but I appreciated the additional personalized stories and recommendations.
Great take aways! I like the idea of having the student reflect upon the interview afterwards as an activity. We do that now, however; I think it could be more of a learning activtiy vs a talking point and transition into feedback from myself.
Doing the proper research on a company or interviewer will be helpful to connect and make a first impression during the interview. This will help the student's nerves by seeing the interviewer connect with them.
A lot of these things, I have been practicing. It usually results in both the employer and myself being a good match and I stay at the job longer.
I learned how I would like to craft a presentation together for our students. I would like to be able to ask students questions afterwards about what they learned from this information and when I get an answer, I am going to reward that student with a quick remeinder card they can take on interviews with them. Ultimately I will give everyone in the class a card.
I learned good general questions to ask at the end of the interview. The only other thing I always tell students to do is when they get the job, immediately update your resume. I learned this from an old boss and it has never failed me. When you start a job, you know who interviewed you, what day you were hired, how much your start pay was and usually you get an immediate description of your job duties which you can list right away. Thank you Julie Warden. This was good. You're hired!
Looking up the company is one of the most valuable things a person can do before an interview.
I like having the student reflect on paper right after the interview. May add this as an assignment after our mock interviews.
I especially liked the questions: What is the career path for people who take this job? I added that one to my list. I was feamiliar with most of the othre questions.
This was a great lesson. I love the idea of developing a lesson plan, event, or activityto help students during an after the interviewing process.
Best practice after an interview is to encourage students to reflect after their interview on new information or information that was significant in the interview so they are able to include this in their thank you letter.
