You have heard it said so many times. Making an excellent first impression is essential for a strong interview. This includes your appearance, your timeliness, but most importantly, your interviewing skills!
Who really gets the job? The best qualified? The smartest candidate? No! The person who is able to best sell his or her skills to employers in a professional and effective manner.
Think you're a great interviewer? Could be, however a little practice never hurts. Before heading into your next interview, spend 30 minutes using our newest technology: InterviewStream!
You can stop in or sign up ahead to use this interactive online video-based practice interviewing. It provides feedback of non-verbal
behavior and communication missteps, plus it's a helpful tool for objective
Counselor assessment.
- Go to
InterviewStream!
- Click JOIN HERE
- Complete short profile and choose your own username and password.
- You can either:
- Conduct a virtual interview (you must have a pc with a webcam)
- Schedule a virtual interview (conducted in our office)
- If you are completing your interview in the Career Services Center, have a Career Services Center Staff member log in to the computer.
- If you have already registered with InterviewStream prior to the interview, please log in using that information. If you have not registered, please choose the “New User” option.
- Next, if you prefer to choose your own questions click the “Standard Practice Interview” option and choose up to 8 questions. Otherwise you can choose the “Standard School Recommended” questions then choose “Set 1”.
- Adjust the webcam on top and volume on the right side of the computer screen before beginning the interview.
- The interviewer will ask you a question and you can then respond. When finished with your response, click the mouse and it will stop recording.
- After each question, you can either “Retry” the response, “Skip” and come back to the question, “Review” to see your response, or choose “OK” to move on.
- When the interview is complete, you will receive an email with a link to view your responses and you are then able to email your interview to a career counselor to review and give feedback.
Click here to log in to InterviewStream!