1. and used with the permission of the author.
JOBTALKS
Should I Interview Actively?
Indiana University Kelley School of Business C. Randall Powell, Ph.D
Contents used in this presentation are adapted from Career Planning Strategies
and used with the permission of the author.

2. An Important Step Campus Interviewing CAMPUS INTERVIEWING
The on-campus interview is not the only way to look for a job. But it is an important first step for thousands of college graduates.
The CSO is your career planning laboratory. Experiment and make mistakes on your own turf.
Is it right for you? Well, only you can answer that.
An Important Step

3. Graduation Day Every Third Seat - No Job Offer Common Characteristics
Did Not Use Service
Started Too Late
Many With Top Grades
Unemployed
GRADUATION DAY
By graduation day, about two-thirds of you will have accepted a firm job offer. It is a great feeling.
When we analyze the third of the class without jobs, we discover that very few of them actively used the placement services, or they just started too late to make needed strategic adjustments.
Many of the unemployed were academic superstars, but for one reason or another they just never got moving in the employment arena.

4. Ask Yourself "What did I do?"
Why No Job?
Examine the Opportunity
Thousands of Interviews
Hundreds of Jobs Listed
Hours of Counseling
PARENTS CALL
At graduation, every placement officer hears from parents of graduates who did not get a job. We must explain that we cannot get anyone a job. Jobs result only from your efforts.
The evidence will show thousands of interview chances, thousands of job offers reported, hundreds of listed jobs, and an open career counseling program.
What happened? You must address the question, not your placement service.

5. What Have You Done To Make It Pay For YOU?
Success Takes Time
High Percent Gets Jobs
Takes Time To Work At It
Major Time Commitment
Makes Past Hard Work Worth It
Very Few Things Are More Important
MENTALLY EASY
A high percentage of students who take this seriously and take follow-up action in the interview process will find a great deal of success.
Success takes time and hard work.
Very few activities, on or off campus, are as important as landing the right job after years of hard work and many dollars invested in college.
What Have You Done
To Make It Pay For YOU?

6. Alibis: I Thought I... had a job with…
could go to work with the family firm…
a friend could get me on with...
ALIBIS
Placement officers have heard every alibi and excuse in the book.
I thought I was going on for further education.
I thought that I had a job with so and so.
I thought that I could go back to the family business.
I thought that a friend could get me on with so and so.
Et cetera, et cetera.

7. Major University Commitment
Thousands Invested by the State
Thousands Invested in You by:
Parents
You
University
MAJOR UNIVERSITY COMMITMENT
Thousands of dollars have been invested in your education.
You contributed much of the investment, but taxpayers, the University, and your loved ones also contributed.
But only your efforts can turn this asset, your education, into dividends.
Only You Can Make the Profits!

8. YOUR TURN
The decision about using your talents is a very personal decision.
A career planning program and related workshops can help in the decision making process.
But nothing really starts until you get involved in the interview process.
No one finds employment without an interview whether it be on-campus or off-campus.

9. Advantages No Easier Way Immediate Feedback Time For Adjustments
There are distinct advantages to using the CSO right now.
It is the easiest way to look for a job.
There is immediate feedback.
There is time to make adjustments.
Everyone makes mistakes. Make them on your turf and on someone else's money.

10. Registration Information
Keep your information current
REGISTRATION CODES
The interview process starts with the preparation of your resume.
There is a database component and a resume component. Both must be kept current.
When you bid, you indicate which of your several resumes on file that you want given to the employer.

11. GRADES May Be a Screening Factor Sometimes Specified by Employer
Must Match I.U. Transcript
Used for Statistical Purposes
GPA
Employers may specify a GPA in their scheduling qualifications, so listing an accurate, current GPA in the database section is required and very important.
You may elect to leave it off of your resume, but students with high grades typically use that as an important selling feature. If it is not on the resume, the conclusion is that your GPA is weak.
Employers reviewing resumes to pre-select students often use GPA as a selection factor. If your GPA is missing from the resume, they are unlikely to screen you onto their list. You are often better to have something listed rather than nothing at all.
Employers will later compare your self-reported GPA with that on your official transcript. Make sure that they agree.

12. Broadly Target Your Resume
Multiple Resumes
Broadly Target Your Resume
Interview comments should not contradict stated goals By
Type of Function
Type of Industry
MULTIPLE RESUMES - TARGETING
The main purpose of multiple resumes is to target your career statement to the type of job function and/or industry group that you are considering.
Your interview comments should not contradict the goals stated on your resume.

13. Multiple Resumes Usually Requires Change in Objective
Interest Summary
Skill Summary
Supported by Comments in...
Education
Activities
Experience
MULTIPLE RESUMES - GOALS
The main item on your resume that typically changes is your career objective. Many students use this statement to summarize their skills and areas of interest.
The education, activities, and experience sections of your resume support and prove your qualifications.

14. Must be current and accurate
Multiple Resumes
The primary resume
always remains on file
Must be current and accurate
MULTIPLE RESUMES
You must always maintain at least one HTML resume on file in the CSO system. It is used extensively for referral purposes.
You may update the career statement and other information at any time. Try to keep the content to roughly one page, with your most important information higher on the page, just in case it gets cut off by an employer’s printer.
You are welcome to take non-HTML resumes (as a supplement) into your interviews, but they will not replace the one the recruiter earlier received.

15. The Interview Process The first interview is the first down!
Details in textbook
Know what to expect
Follow-up interview
THE INTERVIEW PROCESS
Your Business Placement Manual and Career Planning Today textbook offer a great deal of information on the interview process and interview techniques.
The process has many important transitional phases which can be anticipated and addressed if you know what to expect.
The success of an on-campus or off-campus initial interview is measured by whether or not you are invited back for additional follow-up interviews.
The first interview is not followed by a job offer. It is a first down, not a touchdown. But repeated first downs usually make big scores. The first step is signing up for campus interviews.
The first interview is the first down!

16. The Interview Process Focus: Getting Ready Purpose: Natural Event
Tools:
Present Mechanics
Convert:
Ingrained Behavior
THE INTERVIEW PROCESS
This presentation focused on getting you ready for the interview process. It provided you the knowledge that will shortly get to be natural for you. You need to learn the mechanics of the process, but within a short time it will become ingrained in your behavior.

17. Learn From Observation
Watch the Action
Analogy: Basketball
Observation, study rules
Interviewing Videos also help
Many opportunities to Observe Videos
LEARN FROM OBSERVATION AND STUDY
You need to learn what happens in the interview. As an analogy, you typically watch a basketball game before trying to play it. You also learn the rules.
We urge you to watch videos on interviewing and listen to some of the rules. The CSO offers several opportunities for you to do this.

18. Vignettes Learn by watching Good Bad Laugh Learn VIGNETTES
You learn best from watching both good interview behaviors and bad techniques. The best way to learn is to observe both good and bad vignettes.
The various videos that the CSO uses usually include several topical scenes. Although you may get a good laugh from watching others screw-up, please try to take away a lesson or two from each of these vignettes.
Laugh
Learn

19. The Employment Interview Videotape
Purpose:
Observe real interview
Follow the process
Listen to the critique
Evaluate tape upon conclusion
VIGNETTES
You learn best from watching both good interview behaviors and bad techniques. The best way to learn is to observe both good and bad vignettes.
The various videos that the CSO uses usually include several topical scenes. Although you may get a good laugh from watching others screw-up, please try to take away a lesson or two from each of these vignettes.

20. If you would like to learn more, Career Planning Strategies textbook will supply additional information on this topic.