Job Hunter Newsletter
On-campus Interviewing Success
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IN THIS ISSUE:
- Job Search Tip of the Week - "On-campus Interviewing Success"
- Help Spread The Word!
- Job Search Links
- Free Job Search Book
- Job Search Tip of the Week, by Brian Krueger, author of "College Grad Job Hunter," the #1 book for entry level job search:
"On-campus Interviewing Success"
Consider the on-campus interview for a moment. You will be spending twenty to thirty minutes in a tiny cubicle with a total stranger. This person will subsequently decide whether you will ever have the chance of working for their company. The best you can hope for is to avoid being disqualified, which only takes you one step further into the interviewing maze. One little mistake, one little error, and you could be history.
Actually, the entire process seems rather absurd, except for the fact that you will not get a job without correctly playing the interviewing game. And on-campus interviewing is often the starting point for the interviewing process.
On-campus interviewing is not simply meeting with three or five (or even ten) companies and then picking the one where you want to work. To maximize your on-campus interviewing success, you need to first maximize both the quality and quantity of the interviews, and then maximize your interview efficiency. It is not enough to just "show up" for the interviews and hope that someone will miraculously offer you a job. You have to perform at your peak to gain mileage from on-campus interviewing. So don't just read this newsletter, but all of the sections at CollegeGrad.com related to interviewing.
On-campus interviews are a gift. They will be by far the easiest interviews for you to find. But you should not depend exclusively on it to guarantee you after-graduation employment. There are far more companies than just those that are visiting your campus. Many of the best companies may not be visiting any campuses. So make sure to also take note of the additional Sections on how to reach out to these "other" companies.
From my side of the desk, there are four distinct steps we go through in our entry level hiring process:
- Marketing -- getting our company name out on campus
- Screening -- initial review of a candidate's qualifications against our basic criteria
- Assessing -- reviewing a candidate's behaviors against our critical behavior profile
- Selling -- encouraging chosen candidates to choose our company over the competition
The first two steps take place on campus. The final two take place at our company-site interview. You want to make it to the fourth step--where you are being courted as the candidate we want to hire. But before you get to that stage, you will need to pass the first three steps. And the opening steps are typically right there on campus.
Next newsletter: "On-campus Interview Prep"
- Help Spread The Word!
Do you know of someone who can benefit from the information in this newsletter? Simply forward this e-mail to them and tell them to subscribe at http://www.CollegeGrad.com/newsletter. Thanks for spreading the good word!
Job Search Links:
- Searching job postings:
http://www.CollegeGrad.com/jobs - Setting up a job alert:
http://jobs.collegegrad.com/JS/Form/SearchForm.asp?alert=y - Post your resume:
http://jobs.collegegrad.com/JS/Form/SignUpForm.asp - Update your posted resume:
http://jobs.collegegrad.com/JS/Form/LoginForm.asp - Creating your resume:
http://www.CollegeGrad.com/resumes - Quickstart resume templates:
http://www.CollegeGrad.com/resumes/quickstart - Creating your cover letter:
http://www.CollegeGrad.com/coverletters - Career information/exploration:
http://www.CollegeGrad.com/careers - Employer research:
http://www.CollegeGrad.com/employers - Top Entry Level Employers:
http://www.CollegeGrad.com/topemployers - Interviewing techniques:
http://www.CollegeGrad.com/intv - Salary info--how much are you worth?
http://www.CollegeGrad.com/salaries - Job offer negotiation:
http://www.CollegeGrad.com/offer
- Job Search Book Online
There are at least two other entry level Web sites that offer books on job searching, proclaming that they will tell you everything you need to know about entry level job search.
However, there is a very important point about these books they don't mention up front: they cost money.
At CollegeGrad.com, we give you two things they don't:
1. The #1 entry level job search book ("College Grad Job Hunter").
2. It's free.
It's that simple. So don't buy the hype. Read the real information you need for FREE:
http://www.CollegeGrad.com/book
Don't ever pay for books or reports or resources of lower quality when you can access the very best quality information for free.
P.S. Yes, you can buy "College Grad Job Hunter" in hardcopy format as well at Amazon.com for $15 (actually, 30% off that price), but the online version is better. Why? Because the version at Amazon.com (the 2003 edition) is being continually updated at CollegeGrad.com. So the most current version of the book is actually the online, free version.
