Freshman Seminar

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Freshman Seminar

• Interviews
• Job Applications

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Interviews Job Applications

• Determine skills and work habits that employers
  want and those habits they dont want
• Become familiar with a resume
• Become familiar with job applications and
  interviews
• Prepare for portfolio product

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Interviews

• Make a list of the top ten things you should do
  to prepare for a job interview

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Interviews

• Why is an interview important?
• What kind of message do you send to the employer
  at the interview?
• What part do clothes play in that message?
• Lets look at interviews gone bad

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7 Interview Tips
Write These Down!
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Handouts

• Congratulations! You got the interview.
• Here are detailed tips and questions you need to
  be prepared to answer. You will be interviewed
  next week.
• Sign on the roster for your scheduled interview.
• Dress appropriately.
• This will be taped

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Lets rank the questions
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Interview Checklist

• Lets review the dos and donts of a successful
  interview

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Panel Interview

• Get out Blue Readers
• 52 and 53

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Mock Interviews

• Turn to class reader 52 and 53 - Practice
  Interview A and Practice Interview B
• With a partner interview each other.
• Each person will record
• As the potential employer the best answer given
  by the interviewee and the worst answer given
• As the interviewee the most difficult question
  to answer and your reply and the question you
  felt most confident in answering and your reply.

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Interview Note sheet

• The Interview Note Sheet Dos and Donts.
• Answer the 10 Most Asked Questions and turn it in
  for credit.

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Interviews How Not To Get The Job

• Turn to blue reader 48

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Do you think Ron would have been screened out?
Why or why not?

• What did he
• do that left
• a bad
• impression?

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• Make a T chart of what people may and what they
  may not ask you on a job application

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Job Applications

• Why do you think employers use job applications?

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What Do Employers Do With Job Applications?

• Screen, screen, screen
• Job applications provide a summary of information
• Can read application and decide if going to waste
  time interviewing person
• It gives a first impression without having ever
  met the person

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Job Applications

• Complete an application
• A peer will review your application and comment.

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Interview Checklist

• Using the provided checklist, make a comic strip,
  flow chart, or other visual of you going through
  the listed steps for a job interview. You can do
  a disaster story
• You must use at least 2 elements from each of the
  4 sections

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Personal Growth Plans

• Complete the essay as required and turn in for
  credit.

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Holland Code Essay

• Outline your answers to the Holland Code Essay
  which you will have to perfect for your career
  portfolio.

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Research Potential Careers

• In pairs, complete the following worksheet.
• Sites for Job Information

• http//www.bls.gov/oco/home.htm
• http//www.usajobs.opm.gov
• http//www.jobprofiles.org

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