Unit 4- Lesson 4: Building Interview Skills Flashcards
rely heavily in your ability to effectively present your success stories
Successful job interviews
One approach to telling success stories is the STAR method which means?
Situation-Tasks-Actions-Results)
Describe a specific situation that you were in or the task that you needed to accomplish.
refer to which star?
Situation
Which in the STAR METHOD
Ex: I personally enjoy working in teams. Back in college, we had a number of tasks that required collaboration among us, students. One of which was our thesis, a final requirement for our graduation.
Situation
What was the goal that you were working on?
this refers to?
Tasks
Which in the STAR METHOD
Ex: I was identified as the leader of the group. At first, everything was going according to our work schedule until one of our groupmates started not to come to our work meetings. She told me that she was unavailable because she was a working student. My other groupmates were dissatisfied with her explanation that they were convincing me to drop her from the group.
Tasks
Describe the actions that you took that led to the outcome
talks about which star?
Actions
Which in the STAR METHOD
Ex: Instead of telling the teacher about, I decided to meet up with my “working student” classmate. I asked first the difficulties that she has in relation to our task. I also presented to her the problems that we have encountered and will still encounter if she continues not to do her tasks.
Actions
Describe the outcome of your actions. Highlight your role in the outcome
refers to which star?
Results
Which in the STAR METHOD
Ex: By the end of our meet-up, we agreed on a common schedule that will allow her to meet us. I have also re-assigned her certain tasks that require independent work so that she will not need take time our of her work. I learned from that experience the importance of dialogue to make a team work effectivel. When I took the time to reach out to my classmate, I think I did not only help her but I also made our team work as team and eventually win the Best Thesis award.
Results
10 Tips to Have a Successful Job Interview
1.Display sense of responsibility by coming to the scheduled interview on time and prepared
2.Exhibit research skills by conducting a study about the employer, hiring manager and job opportunities.
3.Suggest sense of loyalty by verbalizing intention to stay longer with the company.
- Insinuate leadership skills by articulating that you can work with less supervision.
- Show creativity by answering difficult questions with style and ease.
- Demonstrate professionalism and proper work ethic by dressing up corporately during the interview.
- Be natural, optimistic, focused, confident, candid, and precise.
- Flaunt your sensibility by asking insightful questions.
- Illustrate confidence by positively selling yourself.
- Exemplify social graces by thanking the interviewer for his or her time.
