...Informational Interview 1. What is your job like? -What do you do? What are the duties/functions/responsibilities of your job? -What kind of decisions do you make? -What percentage of your time is spent doing what? -How does this type of work interest you and how did you get started? 2. Can you suggest some ways a student, like me, could obtain this necessary experience? 3. What are the most important personal satisfactions and dissatisfactions connected with your occupation? What part do you personally find most satisfying? Most challenging? What do you like and not like about working in this industry? 4. What things did you do before you entered this occupation/business? -Which one those have been most helpful? 5. Are you optimistic about the company’s future? 6. How does the company make use of technology for internal communication and outside marketing? (Use of email, internet, social networking, etc.) 7. If you could do things all over again, would you choose the same path for yourself? Why? What would you change? 8. What abilities or personal qualities do you believe contribute most to success in this business? 9. Does your work relate to any experiences or studies you had in college? 10. From your perspective, what are the problems you see working in this field? 11. What interests you least about the job or creates the most stress? 12. What kinds of experience, paid or unpaid, would you encourage for anybody...
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...The Best Answers to Tough Interview Questions Tell me about yourself. This is really more of a request than a question. But these few words can put you on the spot in a way no question can. Many quickly lose control of the interview during the most critical time- the first five minutes. This is not the time to go into a lengthy history or wander off in different directions. Your response should be focused and purposeful. Communicate a pattern of interests and skills that relate to the position in question. Consider your response to this question as a commercial that sells your autobiography. Provide an answer that includes information about where you grew up, where you went to school, your initial work experience, additional education and special training, where you are now, and what you intend to do next. One of the most effective ways to prepare for this question is to develop a 60-second biographic sketch that emphasizes a pattern of interests, skills, and accomplishments. Focus your response around a common theme related to your major interests and skills. Take, for example, the following response, which emphasizes computers. "I was born in Canton, Ohio and attended Lincoln High School. Ever since I was a teenager, I tinkered with computers. It was my hobby, my passion, and my way of learning. Like most kids I enjoyed computer games. When my folks gave me a computer as a reward for making honor roll my sophomore year, I mastered DOS, Windows, and WordPerfect within six...
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...In today's work oriented culture, romances and the related topics of sex and privacy have become important issues confronted by most employers. With more employees working longer days and spending so much of their time on the job, romantic relationships at work are developing more frequently. Workplace romance may be the only option for employees whose workload limits their outside activities, but for employers, this trend may prove to be a problem as the potential liability associated with these relationships rises. Some organizations ban all workplace dating, while other employers have no policy at all to address these issues. Most organizations fall somewhere in between, with explicit or at least implicit policies that forbid or discourage certain workplace relationships. After all, with the amount of time people spend working, it’s impossible to meet people in the traditional meeting places such as church, the neighborhood, family events, and leisure time activities do not present the same kind of people. In contrast, the office provides a natural selection of people who share at least one important interest. People who work together also live within a reasonable dating distance, and share a location, so they see each other on a daily basis. Coworkers in similar jobs may also be around the same age, and share the same interests both inside and outside of work. Consensual relationship policies are an important tool in managing the risk of sexual harassment and discrimination...
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...planning by a. Helping you prepare a personal profile 2. In contrasts to formal tests, informal measures a. Rely on subjective opinions 3. People who believe that rewards in life are generally outside their control a. Have an external locus of control 4. Your career interests include your favorite kinds of work activities. Most of these interests a. Will still be enjoyable after many years 5. Career interest assessments a. Identify occupations or occupational groups that most likely match your interests 6. Recent research about life stages suggests that a. Adults make dramatic changes in their personal lives and careers as their core values change 7. The works of John Holland and Carl Jung serve as the basis for two major career assessment approached related to a. Personality 8. According to Duane Brown’s career model a. People have different values because they have different experiences and opportunities 9. ESTP is an example of a. Myers Briggs temperament type 10. Among the three most common types of measurement in a complete battery ability tests, you should expect to be tested on a. Psychomotor abilities 11. The College Level Examination Program is an example of a. Achievement measures 12. In assessing your skills it is important to remember that a. You will accumulate a variety of new...
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... What’re your interests? 3. What’re your aptitudes? 4. What’re your personal characteristics? 5. What do you want to be when you graduate? 6. Do you think your job match with your values, interests, aptitude, and personal characteristics or not? Explain. Answers: 1. In general sense, values are beliefs people have about what is right and wrong, and what is most important in life, which control their behavior. To me, some of the most important values I of mine are honesty, promise keeping, politeness, equality, self-help, punctuality, nonviolence, independence, and last but not least helping other. 2. Some friends of mine always say that I have lots of hearts since I have many interests. Even though I have that plenty of interests, there are only a few which I am interested in the most. One of them is sport. I am really keen on sport, especially football. I just live without playing football for a whole week. At least, I play football a day per week. Besides football, I also enjoy volleyball. Travelling also one of the most interesting stuff. In all honestly, I have been to many provinces such as Phnom Penh, Preah Vihear, Kompong Thom, Kompong Cham, Kompong Chhang, Stueng Triang, Kratie, Sihanuk Ville, Kompot, and also Mondolkiri. I get itchy feet; I just cannot stay at the same place for long. Apart from sport and traveling, I enjoy reading books and watching movies as well. These stuffs really take away my stress. Last but not least, I also prefer...
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...the only problem you should have during ON THE JOB training is lack of self esteem. you are being trained you are not expected to know everything in one day. Experience is gained through time. The longer you do something the more you learn. The faster you gain knowledge & become a productive employee. Customer service related problems can occur for those obtaining on the job training for hotel and restaurant management. * Customer Service One of the main issues that management has to face in the hotel and restaurant industry is dealing with difficult customers. Dealing with these customers takes patience, finesse, and knowing what steps are possible for management to take. A manager usually has the power to provide a free meal, entrée, or even to comp a room for a night for a guest when there is a difficult problem. The manager has to know what is appropriate given the current situation. For example, a customer who finds glass in their food expects that meal to be replaced and to be free. A person may also expecta hotel room to be free for at least one night if there was a problem with the room's plumbing, the reservation or something similar. It is the job of the manager to placate the person correctly and solve the problem without giving too many free items away. * Maintenance problems Maintenance problems can often arise with hotel and restaurant management. On the job training in a practicum situation may see an issue arise with the plumbing or there...
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... Table of Contents Career Services Center for Experiential Learning Keuka College Phone (315) 279 - 5274 Fax: (315) 279 – 5329 Table of Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Types of Job Interviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Showcasing Your Job Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Before the Interview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 6 During the Interview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 After the Interview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 9 Interview Tips and Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Interviewing Do’s and Don’ts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Some Actual Don’ts from Employers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Answering Questions the 1 + Way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Sample Interview Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Most Frequently Asked Interview Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Ten Major Fears Behind the Interview Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Illegal Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 2 ...
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...Interview Prep Guide The Interview is the most important aspect of your job hunt. Aside from your technical abilities, the impression you make on the interviewer will be the reason you do or do not get a job offer. Preparing in advance can help lower your stress level and help you perform better during the process. Below are some steps to help you prepare for the interview. Prepare ▪ Research the company – visit their Website. If you need the URL, please ask me. Use the information to demonstrate your knowledge of the company and your interest during the interview. ▪ Prepare questions to ask the interviewer about the company, project and goals – this will demonstrate that you have done your homework. (Do not ask about salary, vacation, or other benefits during the interview). ▪ Rehearse – Review likely interview questions and practice answering them. Presentation Phone Interview: ▪ If you have Call Waiting DO NOT put the interviewer on hold and take another call. ▪ Have a copy of your resume in front of you during the telephone interview. ▪ Present a positive attitude. ▪ If English is not your native language please speak as clearly as possible. It is often helpful to slow down as you speak. Onsite Interview: ▪ Dress in professional attire for the interview. ▪ Take at least five copies of your Arcus Formatted Resume with you to the interview. ▪ Take a notebook...
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...answered every question honestly and truthful to best of my knowledge and I still got similar answers to what I got 2 years ago. It really makes me wonder if I am going into the right career or if I should change careers. The two picks with my interests are Meeting, Convention, & Event Planners and Human Resources Managers. Meeting, Convention, & Event Planners, you need to be able to listen to others, not interrupt, and asking good questions. You need to have patience and knowledge of what they are trying to describe for to you. You need to be able to picture things in your head and how will they look in a room. You also need to be professional while talking to others, you need to be able to except change based on other people's actions, and you also need to have an eye for detail and when you or someone notice a problem you need to be quick on your feet and figuring out the best way to solve it. Most of these jobs are offered back east but Montana, Colorado, and Nevada have opening on the west cost. The average salary for a event planner is $46,000. That’s is about $22 per hour at the most you would be making. For me to be able to live in Utah and it is one of cheaper states to live in with just supporting myself I need to make at least $20,000 per year before taxes. Doing a event planner it would be hard to support myself, but it manageable. Human Resources Managers, you need to be able to think about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one. Figure...
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...Interview Prep Guide The Interview is the most important aspect of your job hunt. Aside from your technical abilities, the impression you make on the interviewer will be the reason you do or do not get a job offer. Preparing in advance can help lower your stress level and help you perform better during the process. Below are some steps to help you prepare for the interview. Prepare • Research the company – visit their Website. If you need the URL, please ask me. Use the information to demonstrate your knowledge of the company and your interest during the interview. • Prepare questions to ask the interviewer about the company, project and goals – this will demonstrate that you have done your homework. (Do not ask about salary, vacation, or other benefits during the interview). • Rehearse – Review likely interview questions and practice answering them. Presentation Phone Interview: • If you have Call Waiting DO NOT put the interviewer on hold and take another call. • Have a copy of your resume in front of you during the telephone interview. • Present a positive attitude. • If English is not your native language please speak as clearly as possible. It is often helpful to slow down as you speak. Onsite Interview: • Dress in professional attire for the interview. • Take at least five copies of your Arcus Formatted Resume with you to the interview. • Take a notebook and pen for taking notes. • Arrive to the interview 15 minutes early…earlier is even...
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...Questions[日期：2006-12-01] 来源：ChaseDream论坛 作者：远洋船长 [字体：大 中 小] Tell me about yourself. This is really more of a request than a question. But these few words can put you on the spot in a way no question can. Many quickly lose control of the interview during the most critical time- the first five minutes. This is not the time to go into a lengthy history or wander off in different directions. Your response should be focused and purposeful. Communicate a pattern of interests and skills that relate to the position in question. Consider your response to this question as a commercial that sells your autobiography. Provide an answer that includes information about where you grew up, where you went to school, your initial work experience, additional education and special training, where you are now, and what you intend to do next. One of the most effective ways to prepare for this question is to develop a 60-second biographic sketch that emphasizes a pattern of interests, skills, and accomplishments. Focus your response around a common theme related to your major interests and skills. Take, for example, the following response, which emphasizes computers. "I was born in Canton, Ohio and attended Lincoln High School. Ever since I was a teenager, I tinkered with computers. It was my hobby, my passion, and my way of learning. Like most kids I enjoyed computer games. When my folks gave me a computer as a reward for making honor roll my sophomore year, I mastered DOS, Windows, and WordPerfect within...
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...INTRODUCTION Health and wellness in the workplace is crucial to business success. Increasingly, it is recognized that the workplace itself has a powerful affect on people’s health. When people are satisfied with their job, they are more productive and tend to be healthier. When employees feel that the environment at work is negative, they feel stressed. Stress has a large impact on employee mental and physical health, and in turn, on productivity. Companies that promote healthy lifestyle habits for employees to improve their health, often take the success of the company to heart and are likely to be absent less often for health related reasons. Employers are now offering a wide range of wellness initiatives; such as health risk screenings and assessments, healthy food choices in cafeterias and vending machines; weigh management programs on-site at employers' expense, subsidized or discounted off-site fitness courses, smoking cessation programs, on-site massage therapy and health fairs. This research paper will focus on the physical impact that unhealthy or healthy workplaces have on employees and the different programs to promote long-term wellness. There can be several benefits received as a result of a wellness program. A workplace wellness initiative can help a company to: • attract and keep employees; • reduce the costs of disability, drugs, and absenteeism; • reduce the effects of a stressful workplace; • reduce health costs or keep them contained; and •...
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...Behavioural/Competency-based Interviews Behavioural interviews are based on the idea that past behaviour is the best predictor of future behaviour. The interviewer will want specific examples of when and how you demonstrated particular behaviours. Prior to interview each position is assessed for the skills/competencies and characteristics that relate to job success. Interview questions are then developed to probe into these areas. All candidates are asked the same questions and notes are taken in order to evaluate candidates. The word competency is widely used in business and personnel psychology and refers to the behaviours that are necessary to achieve the objectives of an organisation. A competency is also something you can measure and lists of competencies form a common language for describing how people perform in different situations. Every job can be described in terms of key competencies. This means that they can be used for all forms of assessment, including appraisals, training needs analysis and of course, selection. • Individual competencies – your personal attributes: Flexibility, decisiveness, tenacity, independence, risk taking, personal integrity • Managerial competencies – taking charge of other people: Leadership, empowerment, strategic planning, corporate sensitivity, project management, management control • Analytical competencies – the elements of decision making: Innovation, analytical skills, numerical problem solving, problem solving, practical learning...
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...in nursing home from last year. I am a nice person with excellent nursing skill and interpersonal skill, which enable me to working in a team with pressure. Furthermore, I can listen and speak mandarin and English fluently. All the experience and skills that I gain during studying and working are around nursing, which enable me to prepare well for future career. 2. What do you know about this organization and why have you chosen to work here? Healthscope is one of Australia’s leading private healthcare operators and the second largest private hospital provider. Healthscope owns or manages 45 medical/surgical, rehabilitation and psychiatric hospitals. In addition, Healthscope operates a leading pathology business with facilities in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia. The company was formed in 1985 3. Why have you chosen to work as a nurse? 5. What are your career goals? short/long 6. What was the high point and low point of your career so far? 7. What according to you are the qualities that a successful nurse must possess? 8. What do you expect your schedule to be in this job? 9. Describe your typical...
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...Partner for the SME Toolkit OBJECTIVE: The most common serious mistake made in business is not picking the right business to begin with. This session will provide you with important evaluation techniques to decide which business is right for you. * Characteristics of a Successful Entrepreneur * Step-by-Step Approach * Decide if you really want to be in business * Decide what business and where * Decide whether to start full-time or moonlight * Selection Strategy * Things to Watch Out For * Required Activities * Comparative Evaluation * How to Evaluate a Specific Business you have in Mind * "For" and "Against" List * Get Completely Qualified * Decision Time * Top Ten Do's and Don'ts * Session Feedback and Quiz | [Back to top]Characteristics of a Successful Entrepreneur | Dr. Dan Nathanson Anderson Graduate School of Business UCLA | | | What are the biggest mistakes made when starting a business? | | Guts: Guts means you must have an entrepreneurial instinct, which is an overwhelming desire to start your own business. You must have the guts and dedication to be completely devoted to your goal. Incidentally, devotion to your goal is much more likely if you have a love for your intended business. Life is too short to start your own business only to discover that it doesn't give you satisfaction and joy. And, through good times and bad times, you will stick with something you love.Brains: While appropriate educational...
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