First off, a big thank you to the following people who helped interview over 150 6th grade students. Each interview was about 5-7 minutes and students commented how "easy" it was. The volunteers were impressed with the 6th grader's maturity and interview skills. Hopefully, this experience will pay off in the next couple years as most of these students will be interviewing for their first part-time jobs. Look for a future post about what students decided were the "Do's" and "Don'ts" of a good interview.
But again, thank you to these people for helping with this year's interviews:
Dr. Keri Schlueter, principal
Andy Seiler, Dean of students
Leah Heidemann, HS counselor
Mrs. Caulkins, student teacher
Traci Lee, HS counselor
Tim Barry
Trudy Barry
Reagan Barry
Kristen Wilson
Hillary Harrison
Bobbi Jo Zeller
Peggy Wright
Ann Evans
Trevor Ahartz
Sarah Wyckoff
Tracy JohnstonPublish Post
Kelly Wyckoff
Patti Isley
Beth VanZante
Regina Overton
Jackie Garrett
Cassandra Halls
David Murry
James Slaughter
Lori Candee
Laura Baumgartner
THANK YOU!!!
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To the 5th grader who left a voice message after reading this blog, thank you for your question! I am not sure about the job you are applying and interviewing for, but I am excited that you are trying to research it. As for interview tips, you can find some great interview tips at the site I have listed below. But personally, my favorite interview tips are as follows:
1. A good handshake and smile before you sit down to interview. Practice these!
2. Pause briefly before each answer and then speak your answer clearly. If more than one person is interviewing you, make eye contact with each as you answer the question. Longer answers where you explain yourself are much better than 1 or 2-word answers.
3.ALWAYS have strengths and be confident with these. And ALWAYS have weaknesses, but make sure these weaknesses aren't really bad things like argumentative, angry, not a team player, etc. Things like "little experience" in this field, no job experience, and "your age". These are all small weaknesses that employers can work with.
4. Finish strong and sell yourself. And YOU HAVE TO HAVE 1 or 2 QUESTIONS TO ASK THEM! If you say you have no questions of them, you are really saying you are not interested in the job. Research (as you have been doing) the job and ask questions, even if you already know the answers. Sometimes, you can see how much the interviewer knows their company!
5. And finally, follow up your interview with a thank you note or email. That is truly how I got my job as a teacher. The Thank You note I wrote sealed the deal.
Good luck!
http://jobsearch.about.com/od/interviews/tp/jobinterviewtips.htm
http://passivepanda.com/interview-tips
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