Module 4 - Overview
Overview
For this module, we will take a look at common questions that are asked in interviews. While the questions may not be asked with the exact terminology, the spirit of them are often the same. For example, to begin an interview, one interviewer may say “Tell me about yourself”, where another may say, “How did you get to your current career position?” Both interviewers have given the applicant the same platform to give talk about themselves, just with differing words.
When we talk about common question, we also must warn about common answers. Knowing that certain questions are likely to come up in most interviews, many applicants will google “good answer to…” and from there, they will copy some advice on YouTube. While I like the idea of researching ideas online, similar to what we will do in this module, there is an extra step that is the key to giving a good answer. That key step is to practice to make it your own.
As an interviewer, I do not want to hear the same rehashed answers from candidate to candidate with only a name change thrown in. Answers that are personal, intriguing, and memorable will make a candidate rise above the rest of the applicant pool.
Over the next few exercises, we are going to try to take common questions from interviews and turn them into uncommon answers that you can use in the future.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate learned interview skills and apply them to the proper questions
- Identify strong and weak responses to interview questions
- Rewrite poorly structured interview answers to make them effective
Activities
Read
Discuss
- Module 4 - Video Discussion 1: Tell us About Yourself
- Module 4 - Video Discussion 2: What Questions Do You Have For Us?
- Module 4 - Video Discussion 3: What Is Your Biggest Weakness?
Submit
- Module 4 - Read, Research, & Submit: What Questions Do You Have For Us?
- Module 4 - Read, Research, & Submit: What Is Your Biggest Weakness?