Interviewing: Question Activity

102-117 Planning Your Business Management Career

Interviewing: Questions Activity

Overall goal: Develop answers to traditional, behavioral, situational, and off-the-wall interview questions. Develop questions to ask after the formal interview question-and-answer period.

Due-Date Schedule:

Wk06—View & write reflection memo about:

Job Interviewing Tutorial for Job-Seekers

Wk07—Answers to Traditional Questions

Wk08—Answers to Behavioral Questions

Wk09—Answers to Situational Questions

Wk10—Answers to Asking-Questions

Interviewing: Answering-Interview Questions Activity

Overall goal: Develop answers to traditional, behavioral,, situational, and off-the-wall interview questions. Develop questions to ask after the formal interview question-and-answer period.

Here are some Web sites with information that may be helpful as you compose answers to the traditional, behavioral, situational, and off-the-wall questions.

General Questions You Might Be Asked with Guides for Answering

50 COMMON INTERVIEW Q&A

Interviewing: Traditional-Questions ActivityDue Wk07

Week’s goal: Develop answers to traditional interview questions.

Go to the Job Interviews Question Database.

Scroll to the middle of the page to the Practice Interviews.

Select the Job-Seeker Traditional Questions. Answer the 20 questions.

TIP: You may want to compose answers to the 20 interview questions in the Word document provided in your E360 course. Then copy/paste the answers into the QuintCareers Web site document. The document you submit for points must have the questions on it.

You’ve completed the traditional-questions section of this assignment!

Interviewing: Behavioral-Questions ActivityDue Wk08

Week’s goal: Develop answers to behavioral interview questions.

Read Behavioral Interviewing Strategies for Job-Seekers and accompanying links.

Go to the Job Interviews Question Database.

Scroll to the middle of the page to the Practice Interviews.

Select the Job-Seeker Behavioral Questions. Answer the 20 questions using the STAR/BAR system.

TIP: You may want to compose answers to the 20 interview questions in the Word document provided in your Blackboard course. Then copy/paste the answers into the QuintCareers Web site document. The document you submit for points must have the questions on it.

You’ve completed the behavioral-question section of this assignment!

Interviewing: Situational ActivityDue Wk09

Week’s goal: Develop answers to situational interview questions.

Go to the Job Interviews Question Database.

Scroll to the middle of the page to the Practice Interviews.

Select the Job-Seeker Situational Questions. Answer the 20 questions using the STAR/BAR system, where appropriate. These questions are what-if type questions.

TIP: You may want to compose answers to the 20 interview questions in the Word document provided in your Blackboard course. Then copy/paste the answers into the QuintCareers Web site document. The document you submit for points must have the questions on it.

You’ve completed the situational-question section of this assignment!

Interviewing: Asking-Questions ActivityDue Wk10

Week’s goal: Develop questions to ask after an interviewing session.

Here are some other Web sites with information that may be helpful as you think of topics and questions to ask as the interview finishes.

Interview Questions and Answers: Interview Questions to Ask the Interviewer

Questions to ask employers during interviews

Interviewing: Asking-Questions ActivityDue Wk10

Week’s goal: Develop questions to ask after the formal interview question-and-answer period.

Prepare four questions you could ask if you were interviewing.

Two of the questions should be generic to any interview situation.

Two of the questions should be specific to one of your focus companies. Identify the focus company and position.

You’ve completed this interviewing-questions activity! You should be able to confidently answer any question an

interviewer throws at you!

Rubric Provided for your information; you do not need to

submit the rubric with your questions.

Name

Question Style Points

Traditional Questions (20 questions) /40

Behavioral Questions (20 questions) /40

Situational (20 questions) /40

Follow-up questions—generic (2 questions) /10

Follow-up questions—specific (2 questions) /10

Total /140