Sunday 21 June 2009

Interview Workshop


Hello everyone!

Just a quick note to let you all know that we had a great interview workshop on Saturday! We at Maverick Trust worked together with Mike Dooley at Career Services, and this was our second "Employment Workshop" for this year. Our first was held in April which covered CV and cover letter preparation for international students and new migrants. On Saturday we focused purely on interviewing for employment here in Dunedin.



As an icebreaker, we shared some of our interview experiences here in Dunedin, both positive and negative, with the group of about 12 assembled. We had people from the following countries:

Korea, Mexico, Hungary, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Brazil, France, China, USA and Germany

The atmosphere was comfortable, and hopefully the information given helpful. Everyone had a chance to be both the interviewee (employee) and the interviewer (employer). We practiced the interviews with jobs gathered from recent issues of the Otago Daily Times (ODT), so each interview was an excercise with "real live jobs".

Mike did a great job of assembling a very informative Career Services booklet filled with potential interview questions for us to think about, humorous interview mistakes and the many different communication styles (verbal and nonverbal). Being an employer myself, as well as recently serving on a Community Organization interview panel, I was able to add some comments to the group about other things that potential employers might look for in an interview.

Next month (25/07) we will hold a Settlement Workshop about Insurance and Health issues, hope to see you there!

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