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As you learned in week 3, your work is not done after your interview. To help you remain competitive, you have to assume that everyone else that interviews for the position did well. At a minimum, you should plan on completing 6 steps after an interview:
1. Ask the interviewer about next steps and plan to follow up.
2. Thank the interviewer and express your interest in the position. (Thank you note)
3. Prepare for possible 2nd interviews: be prepared to meet and interview with other people in the organization, do your research on who else you might meet with and plan on highlighting your accomplishments, background, education, and experience.
4. Consider your salary and benefits expectations. Salary negotiation is an advanced career development skill. There are many resources that can help you practice this skill, including PayScale.com's very detailed salary negotiation guide. You can review it here: http://www.payscale.com/salary-negotiation-guide
5. Stay positive. Don’t beat yourself up after the interview. If there were places in the interview where you felt challenges, think about how you could practice and improve on in your next interview.
5. Warm-up your references. You should inform your references about the position you interviewed for and get them ready for the reference call. In developing a list of references, please make sure you are using people that will have positive things to say. Don’t ASSUME that previous supervisors or colleagues will give you a good reference…KNOW they will give you a good reference. Consider using a “mock” reference check with typical reference questions to see how they respond…see information on the following link:
http://www.best-job-interview.com/reference-check-questions.html
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In a minimum of 150 words, Discuss your own post-interview experiences you’ve had (good or bad). Explain what you might do differently after having completed this course. Why? Be specific!
Have you experienced a reference gone bad? How did you find out? How did you handle it? Talk about other post-interview experiences and discuss lessons learned.
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Post Interview Experience
Interviews are great experiences because they lead to exposure to the corporate world
where one get to understand and know what to experience for the next interview. As such,
whether good or bad, post interview experiences are important and they should be taken as
learning opportunities. In my course of life, I have attended several interviews with different
interviewers. As such, I have experienced some good and some not so good interview outcomes.
On the long run, the experiences have taught me different things, for now, I know how to prepare
better, how to answer interview questions as well as how to do research before an interview. As
well, I have learned how to tackle different questions within the scope of the intended answers as
well as how to give correct answers. Some of the experiences have also exposed me to different
settings and there put me in a position where I can comfortably negotiate for salaries within the
expected range thus attaching value to my experience without being unrealistic.
Some of the bad experiences include my first interview where I was interviewing for an
internship post. Since it was my first interview, I did not know how to prepare since I had no
clue of what was expected of me. Again, it was just an internship interview and hence I thought I
should not take it seriously. I did not bother to go through my resume nor search for information
regarding what kind of questions I should expect. I was quite ignorant about the whole issue of
an interview, and I thought it was not something major since I was only interviewing for an
internship and hence not a real job. On the day when the interview was to be conducted, I
dressed accordingly, and I arrived in time. When I got in the interview room, I was shocked to
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