wednesday /Thursday august 28 & 29

1. wednesday/Thursdayaugust 28 & 29

2. On a new page answer the following prompt: • How has your high school experience prepared you for work? • You have 5 minutes to respond to the prompt. Composition notebook

3. Using the instructions for what a resume should look like, review a table mate’s resume. • Write on the resume anything that is out of place, missing, etc. • If you did not bring a resume today, you will work alone completing a resume. Resume peer review

4. Once you have finished peer reviewing the resume, create 8 interview questions for this person based on their objective, experience, and interview questions from our handouts. • You may refer to the handouts for some questions that are appropriate. • Hold on to all this material. Interview questions

5. As part of preparing for interviews, it is always good to put yourself in the right frame of mind. • Amy Cuddy has some really good advice in your TED Talk on power poses. Ted talk

6. It is now time to conduct mock interviews. Working with the person who peer reviewed your resume, conduct a mock interview where your peer reviewer is the interviewer and you are the applicant for a job based on your job objective. • It’s going to get noisy in here, so you will want to sit next to each other so you can hear. Everyone who brought a resume today will conduct a mock interview. Mock interviews

7. Write a thank you note to your interviewer. You are not giving the thank you note to your table mate, you are putting this thank you note in my basket as you leave the room as your exit ticket. See the example in your handouts. Write a thank you note

8. You have two assignments due on Friday. • Spend the remainder of class working on whichever one needs your attention. • Resume (typed) • Revised Remembered Event Narrative Work period