| t College Graduates - Interview Expectations and Job | | | | players as well as any other information you could dig |
| Selection Advice | | | | up. |
| Why You Are Interviewing? | | | | Salary Talk |
| The obvious answer to this question is that you need | | | | When I just graduated college, right before I started |
| a job. However, this kind of thought will land you at a | | | | my business, I left my current software positions to |
| company which you are not happy working at. | | | | be an account manager for a company which sells |
| Instead, think of it this way: you are interviewing to | | | | checks. I left for $7,000 a year. This was the worst |
| decide what type of career and what type of | | | | career mistake I have ever made. If it's a really solid |
| company suits you best. When it comes to recent | | | | company, don't worry about the base salary too |
| college graduates, many companies take advantage | | | | much. Conversely, if a company is promising gold, but |
| of their salary and load the young professionals up | | | | is paying next to nothing, run the opposite way. |
| with work they do not want to do. Therefore, | | | | What If I Am Really Nervous During My Interview? |
| always remember that you are the one being | | | | That is fine; trust me. Within a matter of days, your |
| underpaid and you have as much choice as they do | | | | entire life has changed. This is scary - the way people |
| as to whether you will be working at that particular | | | | talk about the "real-world" can put a lot of pressure |
| company. | | | | on a young person. If you're nervous, the number |
| Unless you feel that it is the offer of a lifetime, you | | | | one thing to do is tell the interviewer that you are |
| should not jump to sign your first offer letter. Be | | | | nervous as you don't interview much. The number |
| prepared to lose the job. In the least, you know that | | | | two thing to do if you are nervous is to accept the |
| (as a starting point) your services may be worth x, | | | | fact that you are nervous and that's the way it |
| though take the time to determine whether that | | | | should be. Lastly, if the interviewer is not |
| variable is high, low or right in the middle. Worst case | | | | sympathetic to the fact that interviewing is a little |
| scenario, you lose the job because you are taking | | | | gut-wrenching for a recent college graduate, then |
| too much time to think. Worse things have happened. | | | | you don't want to work with that person anyway. |
| What Types of Jobs Are You Interviewing For? | | | | What Questions Am I Going to Be Asked? |
| If you want to be an accountant then, by all means, | | | | This depends on the actual person with whom you |
| you should become an accountant. However, school | | | | will be meeting. If they are smart, they will have a |
| is a lot different from real life, just because you liked | | | | conversation with you, if they are subpar HR people |
| a class in college doesn't mean that you will enjoy | | | | they will ask you questions such as what your |
| working in that field. Prior to going out and | | | | weaknesses are. If you want to prepare for the |
| interviewing, do a good amount of research on | | | | cookie-cutter questions like that, make sure your |
| various occupations which may be of interest. Find | | | | answer is different from what you perceive as to |
| out what they pay, what the hours are, what the | | | | how other applicants would respond. Take risks. |
| future of the industry holds, who are the major | | | | |