Week 8, Day 22
Written on 3.8.09 by Six
Day 22 tasks:
Interview skills
Selling yourself
Writing/ Asking for Letters of recommendation
1. Interview skills: If jobs were only given to the most qualified applicants, the interview would be unnecessary. Resumes, Application forms and credentials would be the only materials needed to choose the best candidate. In reality, the application and resume are only the first steps in the direction of the ultimate goal: the interview.
- 10 interview tips: check out the handout and this video on youtube (and other videos from "smartselling")
- The seven phases of an interview: handout
- Types of questions: See page 101 of the handout and this video (and other videos from "expertvillage")
- Florida State University has a program to help their students develop online portfolios. See some samples at their site.
- You don't have to be a computer genius. Really, if you can use Power point, you can still stand out. Consider a CD portfolio.
- How about a blog? You already know how to use blogger. Wordpress is another popular site...and there are MANY others.
- googlesites
- pbwiki
The important thing is that you STAND OUT from the competition.
3. Writing/ Asking for Letters of recommendation:
1. Emurse is actually a tool for resume creation and storage. I haven't actually used this site for my resume, but it seems to have some good resources for asking for and writing letters of recommendation.
2. Box Free Concepts also has a guide for writing letters of recommendation. Generally you will find that all letters follow the same basic structure, but their purpose differs. This site discusses different purposes for letters of recommendation.
You can also check out the "letter of recommendation format" guide on Box Free Concepts or the sample letters of recommendation on eduers.com.
HOMEWORK:
Please be sure that you arrive ON TIME to your schedules conference!
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