Interviewing

The good thing about college is that the administration wants to place their students in jobs upon graduation. The career center has a multitude of services that assist us in finding an employer. I recently used a barrage of career center procedures in order to impress my interviewers.

Just like fingerprints, no interview is the same. I am trying to earn a Co-op position or internship with an engineering company, therefore the career center prepared me for this specific type of interview. They gave me plenty of free reading material to brush me up on the proper etiquette of everything. They had several free sessions at night that would recap the dynamic reading material and told us how it pertained to college students. They looked over my résumé, and we even performed a mock interview. The career center had suit cleaning coupons from one of the local dry cleaners. (Talk about a smart business move on their part.) I thought the interviews would be very intimidating, but they were not. The scariest part was the tiny little room which placed me within a couple feet of the interviewer.

The recent surge in postal stamps put me back a few extra cents when I mailed thank you notes to the interviewers, but it should pay back when I land the position. I also needed to buy a business folder in order to hold résumés and business cards. I looked more professional this way and was able to take notes during the interview. (They kinda run together when you do many interviews back-to-back.) Now I sit back and wait for the offers to come in.