Digital Key Concepts Management 102 Professor Estenson

1. Digital Key ConceptsManagement 102Professor Estenson Chapter 8 Conducting Job Interviews

2. Key Concepts • The Job Hunt • Application Process • Job Interview • Type of Job Interviews • Conducting Interviews • Follow up

3. Preparing For the Hunt • Network • Network • Network (86% of career type jobs found this way) • Social Networking Sites (3.9%) • Rule of three (each day) • Three information or actual interviews • Three e-mail contacts • Three Letters

4. Resume • Conventional • Chronological • Functional • Combination • Scannable • Key words • E-mail • Reduced to fit into e-mail • Web • Link to specific information

5. Integrity • Accurate • Honest • No Exaggeration • No Distortions

6. Letter of Application • Chance to sell yourself • Focus on what you can do for the organization

7. The Job Interview • Positive Attitude • Energy • Passion • Excitement • Positive about • Self • Past Events • Internal Locus of Control • Accept responsibility for your life and actions • Submissive Style • Focus on making interviewer look good

8. Verbal and Non-Verbal • Speak rapidly and forcefully • Work pitch and tempo (some people when excited voice goes up and they start to speak like folks from LA –like-like-like and a long extended last word in sentence. • Gesture and smile often • Look directly at interviewer • Nod in a positive manner • Learn Forward

9. Types of Interviews • Non-structured • Dinner, lunch or breakfast • You have the responsibility to make things happen • Structure • Office setting • Group • Virtual

10. Preparation • Questions you want to ask • Follow-up interview • Thank you notes (handwritten)

11. Conducting Interview(Least scientific but most used to make decisions) • Pre-work • Get to know all you can about applicant • Plan environment (where and when) • Organize questions • Practice opening • Ask only lawful questions • Listen carefully and watch non-verbal cues • Verify all references and responses to questions