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High Stakes Communication: Interviewing for a Job

Enhance your job interview skills with tips on analyzing audience, organizing knowledge, handling questions, and reducing anxiety to ace the interview. Research employers and manage communication effectively. Learn to present confidently & manage stress for a successful job interview journey.

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High Stakes Communication: Interviewing for a Job

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  1. High Stakes Communication:Interviewing for a Job

  2. Successful Interviewees • Analyze situation & audience • Organize knowledge and experience • Convey confidence • Handle questions • Reduce anxiety www.city.pittsburgh.pa.us/ ed/jobs.html

  3. Analyze Situation and Audience

  4. Analyze Interview Situation • Where? • When? • How many interviews? • With whom? • Other expectations? • Give job talk • Take tests www.quantumwave.com/images/interview.jpg

  5. Research theEmployer • Mission • Organizational structure and culture • Clients, dept. faculty, students • Products, research foci, services • Size and location • Financial standing

  6. Sources of Information • Career services • Web sites • Advisors, peers, employees • Annual report • Promotional materials • Periodicals

  7. Organize Knowledge and Experience

  8. Know Yourself • List adjectives that describe yourself • Create table of job satisfaction factors • Rank personal values • Analyze past work experiences • Assess strengths & weaknesses • List life & career goals • Stay aware of current events http://www.resumetapebook.com/i/tn_interview_jpeg.jpg

  9. Know Your Work Experience • Assemble and review job portfolio • Review notes on employer • Match your qualifications to their needs • Formulate questions to ask http://uk.dk.com/static/cs/uk/11/features/whatnext/images/interview.jpg

  10. Get Organized! • Greeting • Small talk • Confident, Can-Do stmt • Strategy • Deliver topic sentences • Provide concrete examples • Organize for conciseness • Adapt to audience • Closing (memorize) • Summarize qualifications • Reinforce interest in position www.nebhworker.org/images/organize.gif

  11. Apply New Knowledge Respond to the interview prompts on the next 4 slides.

  12. Tell me a little bit about yourself.

  13. What are your most significant accomplishments?

  14. What are your strengths and weaknesses?

  15. Describe your research.

  16. ConveyConfidence • Posture • Gestures • Eye contact • Voice quality • Dress http://a.abcnews.com/media/US/images/pd_job_interview_030812_nv.jpg

  17. Do: LISTEN Paraphrase/clarify Engage and elaborate Monitor body language Don’t: Exaggerate qualifications Give yes/no responses Criticize previous employer Handle Questions

  18. Reduce Anxiety • Physical signs • Sweat • Hands shake • Voice cracks • Psychological signs • Blank out • Babble http://gradschool.rgp.ufl.edu/images/handbook/Job-interview-door.gif

  19. Success without Stress • Eliminate negativity www.owlnet.rice.edu/~cainproj/ news/october99/october.html

  20. Negative TalkPositive Talk --- I’m freaking out! I’m going to blow this. ++ I’m prepared. This could lead to a great opportunity. --- He/she thinks I’m an idiot. ++The interviewer is on my side. He/she needs me to fill important role in org.

  21. Success without Stress • Breathe www.owlnet.rice.edu/~cainproj/ news/october99/october.html

  22. Breathing Exercise • Relax shoulders,neck, and jaw • Place fingertips on diaphragm • Inhale slowly and silently count to 5 • Hold 3 seconds • Exhale while counting to 5 • Repeat sequence for 5 minutes

  23. Success without Stress • Eliminate negativity • Breathe • Eat • Sleep • Avoid caffeine www.owlnet.rice.edu/~cainproj/ news/october99/october.html

  24. stress Practice! • Practice answering questions out loud • Mock interview w/ different people • Get videotaped • Keep a journal about interview experiences to aid future preparation performance

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