Month: May 2018

When I interviewed a classmate, Cory, I felt very important like I was really determining if she got the job or not. I do feel that seeing an interview from the employers perspective does prepare you for a real interview because it shows you the type of questions they will ask and the type of questions they want to know the answer to, it also helped me know what was and what wasn’t what the interviewer,who was me at the time, wanted to hear. Being interviewed by a classmate was very interesting because I know them personally and I had to act like they were determining whether I will or will not get a job. I didn’t feel as nervous or anxious as I would of at a real interview because I felt comfortable with her and I know her from class. I feel like some of my responses were delayed and could of been better and more thought out in advanced, I also wish I didn’t use the works, “like” and “um” so much and I would of sounded a lot more professional. Some advice I would give to others doing the mock interview would be to take it seriously because it is good practice and to prepare like its a real interview. If it was real I would of prepared answers to questions I was likely to be asked. I would dress in appropriate clothes that were nicer and more business casual, and I would behave confident and professional throughout the whole process. This is defiantly a skill you need in real life because you have to know how to act in an interview to get a job. If an interviewer asked me to tell him about myself a good response is to give detailed examples on how I am responsible and why I think I am right for the job. A bad response would be to go into detail about something irrelevant to the job you are interviewing for.

1.  What did you learn from your presentation? I learned more about the career I eventually want to have, like the salary, steps that I have to take to get to the point I need to, the certificates I need before my career starts and a lot about what it takes to run a buisness
2. How well do you think you did on your presentation? I think I did my best I knew what I needed to and was confident on my hard work, so overall I think I did well.
3. What are some presentation techniques that can you incorporate into your next presentation? Using flash cards, doing slides in an order I can remember, speaking loudly.
4. What if anything, could you have done differently to change the outcome of your presentation? I would have wrote myself note cards and not written and paragraphs.