Assignment1: Job Interview Presentation
For the purpose of this assignment, you need to go online and find a posting for a job that you would be a good candidate for once you graduate from Brooklyn College. In other words, you should look for job postings that require a college degree. You can find such postings on CareerBuilder, Indeed, ZipRecruiter and many other online job search sites.
Once you have found a suitable job posting, you should create the manuscript for a 12-15 minutes long job interview between you (the applicant) and an interviewer. In other words, we assume that you just graduated from College, applied for the position, and were invited for an interview. You are required to submit a copy of the original job posting and your resume with the completed assignment. A 12-15 minutes long job interview corresponds to a manuscript of approximately 1,200-1,500 words.
By manuscript, I mean a complete transcript of the interview from the moment you enter the interviewer’s office until the moment you say goodbye to each other.
Here is the correct format for the manuscript (you shouldn’t have this exact beginning to your interview. I just want to show you what it should look like on the page):
Interviewer: “Come on in and have a seat.”
Applicant: “Thank you very much.”
Interviewer: “Before we start, let me tell you a little about myself and our company.”
There is no pre-determined structure for the interview. You get to decide on that structure for yourself. Instead, you have to follow certain guidelines. These guidelines are as follows:
- The interview should have a logical flow. Remember that a job interview is a coherent conversation between two people and not simply a collection of questions and answers.
- There should be questions that assess whether the applicant can fulfill the job responsibilities associated with the position.
- There should be questions that assess whether the applicant has the potential to be promoted within the organization (e.g., does s(he) have the requisite leadership experience, skills, and/or potential)
- There should be questions that assess whether the applicant fits in within the organization’s culture (e.g., does the applicant prefer to work alone, in teams, etc.)
- More generally, there should be questions that assess whether the applicant is a good fit for the position and the organization.
The following two questions have to be a part of the interview:
- At some point during the interview, the interviewer has to ask the applicant to recount a challenging, professional situation from the past and how s(he) dealt with it.
- At some point during the interview, the interviewer should pose a difficult, hypothetical question to the applicant (e.g., “imagine you are hired, and one day you face the following situation (elaborate on that situation). What would you do and why?”)
Finally, it is important that the applicant answers questions by offering concrete evidence for his/her experiences, skills, and potential. One great way to do that is to tell lots of stories about yourself: what you have done, what you are currently doing, and what you hope to do in the future. Put differently: in a job interview, the stories you tell about yourself count as evidence for your qualifications.
To help you create a good job interview, I have attached links to relevant documents. You can also find copies of these documents under “Course Documents” on Blackboard. But remember to follow my specific guidelines for the assignment.
https://www.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/40591_15.pdf
https://miamioh.edu/student-life//_files/documents/career-services/pdfs/interviewing.pdf
https://www.hws.edu/academics/career/pdfs/intvq.pdf
https://www.successpeople.com.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/145/2019/02/questionsandanswers.pdf
https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/interviewing/top-interview-questions-and-answers