Spotlight on Interview Coaching

You’ve located a couple of tantalizing job announcements. You can meet most of the qualifications, but not all. You’ve submitted your CV or resume with an engaging cover letter that accentuated the strongest features of your portfolio. You followed up with a search chair, employer representative or hiring manager to ask for additional information and the schedule for screening applicants. Not getting much concrete information, you continue sending out applications. Suddenly that hiring manager calls back, “ I’d like you to buy a plane ticket on your credit card. We want to do a first-round interview with you a week from Tuesday. You’re one of 3 candidates in our pool.”

What should you do to prepare for a first round? Make an appointment with Virginia Steinmetz or Kirsten Nicholas ( If you’re an MEMP student) for interview coaching, 660-1050. Make sure you send that tantalizing position description and those winning application documents to your coach at least a day ahead.