Job Interviews

Task 1: Watch this video and answer the following questions. 

      1. Match the words with their definitions.

      Be match with the same color:

A	B
commit	do everything to achieve a task within a time frame
prompting	make/obligate
specifics	details to the point
goal-oriented	support with examples
back something up	encouraging

 2. What is the main advice that the presenter has mentioned?

Don’t commit the fatal interview sin: what is it?

1. Speaking in generalities rather than specifics. I need to back it up with specifics. 

For example, “I’m a goal oriented person. As an example, I regularly update a list of personal and professional goals with specific time frames. Since I started keeping my goal list three years ago, I successfully reached or surpassed 90% of those goals. I’m confident that the other 10% are also within reach in the coming year.” 

If you use generalities, a good interviewer will usually follow with a behavioral question, “can you give me a specific example?” 

2.Be ready to provide an answer, better yet, do it without prompting. 

Task 2:  Watch this video and answer the following questions. Underline the most suitable expressions from a), b) and c).

1. As an answer to the first question, which of the following three that the   interviewee does not do?

a)  She says that she has five years’ experience in administration and two

years in phone sales.

  

b)  She focuses much on her personal life, her studies and enthusiasm in

travelling.

   

 c)  She says that her strengths lie in advance computer skills and excellent

     customer service.

 2.  According to the second question that the interviewer asks, you should

   

a   a) have researched on the company's history and its products before

      going to the interview.

     b)   do a research on the company and the job details immediately after the

            job interview.   

c)  apologize for not being able to do any research.

    3. According to the interviewer, the interviewee

     

      a)    impressed him by revealing her truly personal weaknesses.

      b)   explained really well her suitability to the role that she had applied for.

      c)    told him her grave personal weakness and then developed from negative to positive.

    4.  Write down five new words and put them in sentences from your own.

daunting
adjective

seeming difficult to deal with in anticipation; intimidating.

a daunting task

synonyms: intimidating, formidable, disconcerting, unnerving, unsettling, dismaying, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting, demoralizing, forbidding, ominous, awesome, frightening, fearsome, challenging, taxing, exacting

verb

make (someone) feel intimidated or apprehensive.

some people are daunted by technology

synonyms: discourage, deter, demoralize, put off, dishearten, dispirit, intimidate, abash, take aback, throw, cow, overawe, awe, frighten, scare, unman, dismay, disconcert, discompose, perturb, unsettle, unnerve, throw off balance, rattle, faze, shake up

Job interview can be daunting, but if I do my research on the computer and think of some possible responses, I think I will be my way to a winning interview.

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everyone. I'm Brian Krueger with CollegeGrad.com and this is The Job Search Minute. Don’t commit the fatal interview sin: what is it? Speaking in generalities rather than specifics. It’s not enough to say, “I’m a goal oriented person.” You have to back it up with specifics. For example, “I’m a goal oriented person. As an example, I regularly update a list of personal and professional goals with specific time frames. Since I started keeping my goal list three years ago, I successfully reached or surpassed 90% of those goals. I’m confident that the other 10% are also within reach in the coming year.” If you use generalities, a good interviewer will usually follow with a behavioral question, “can you give me a specific example?” Be ready to provide an answer, better yet, do it without prompting. This has been The Job Search Minute, for more career information please visit CollegeGrad.com.