I am going to be totally honest when I say I felt I really got nothing out of the event. I’m sure that is not for everyone, I think maybe I just happened to get not so well informed people who I felt really helped me in no way, minus one Person. I must say the pizza was yummy! We only had time to have our resumes looked at by 2 different people, neither of which had business cards. Only one gave me all her information, the other person refused to, which was quite disappointing. I did learn quite a bit during the resume review, so I shouldn’t say I left with nothing. The one woman who was kind enough to give me all her personal information gave me so many amazing tips that I would normally overlook. It was intresting because I have never really wrote a resume, I just took a template off of office and filled in the blanks. I later learned what things were not necessary to include such as obvious tasks like cleaning, serving people etc. I also learned that education should always come first at the top of your resume. Almost always do you want your resume to be only 1 page long and to include your GPA if its impressionable. The woman constanly kept telling me that I have to sell myself on it.
As far as the lighting round interviews, which I must say were completely stressful! All around I was really disappointed by it because I expected a lot more out of it and felt I left with nothing. I felt the couple people I went to were extremely rude to me and extremely blunt, minus one woman. To me I felt this was supposed to be a learning experience, where instead I felt I was totally judged and critized. For me personally I felt the interview was stressful because the questions I was asked I found hard to answer because I had no idea what job I was interviewing for! So I did not think it was fair to be judged on that because of course my answer was going to be complete crap because I had no idea what position I was “interviewing for”
Of everything, the two people who I met that had the biggest impact on me was Kendra Hill with Alpha Source and Antonia Walzak with Walzak Marketing Communications Inc.
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I met Antonia too and I loved her. She was a really nice women and she really helped me out. However when you say you found the questions hard to answer, I think that was the point. Each interviewer was given one question that they asked everything. The questions they were given were popular questions that are generally asked in an real interview setting. They were kind of meant to be hard on purpose to give you a chance to answer and give them a chance to tell you how you can answer the question better.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your opening statement, I too felt like the event wasn't the greatest for networking. I ran into three people over the course of the night that I was interested in talking to and none of them had business cards.
ReplyDeleteI was really nervous for the speed-interview and can agree that some of the interviewers were a little too harsh on judging the students. I was caught completely off guard with a few of the questions and was ridiculed with how my body language came off when I was thinking of an answer. I did think it was helpful to know what I could improve on, but I agree that some people were just overly rude. At the time I didn't take the interviewing seriously, because like you said, I had no idea what exactly I was interviewing for and had no preparation.
ReplyDeleteYeah one aspect I didn't like was how the speed interviews judged on preparedness and how your were dressed, when those were things I thought nothing of since I came in there not really knowing what to expect in the first place. The resume reviews really only gave out important tips or guidelines rather then true resume writing skills.
ReplyDeleteI agree that I got a good amount of positive feedback on the resume part of it. Mine wasn't good at all going into this and after I got a lot of good feedback for changes to implement into my resume. It was also hard to get business cards from some people. I could tell that some weren't giving them out so I just avoided the subject. I also met Walzak and I thought she was a very nice and informative person.
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