Sunday, October 12, 2008

Mock Interview Reflection

This blog is about my reflection on my mock interview I had last week for an internship with the Atlanta Braves. Here are the questions and answers I had to reflect on after my interview.

1. Were you nervous? How did you deal with this?

I wasn’t really nervous; I just didn’t really know what to expect doing a mock interview with m teacher. I have had numerous interviews and I have even had a mock interview before, but it was with someone that worked with the company and I did not know them. So, the fact I knew my teacher that was performing the mock interview threw me off guard because I didn’t know how real it would be. It turned out great in the end I think because I did feel like I was interviewing for my internship with a lot of the questions that she asked.

2. Did you get any questions that threw you? How did you handle those questions?

I really didn’t have any question that threw me off because like I said I have had many interviews so I have heard the majority of the questions asked before. Since I have been asked many of these questions before I have become better prepared and also from reading interview tips from the website article has also gotten myself better prepared for new questions.

3. If you could do the interview again, what would you do differently?

If I were to do the interview again the two main things I would make sure to do would be to keep my posture up the whole time and speak slowly. I think I began to slouch a little into the interview because I got comfortable since the interview was with my teacher and not a real one. Also, Angela pointed out to make sure I speak slow because I have the whole interview time to make myself look good and not to be in a rush.

4. What did you learn from this experience?

What I learned from this mock interview experience was new techniques to answer questions and also to always have questions for the interviewer at the end to show your interest in the company. I also came away with two faults I had with my posture and talking fast so I make sure not to do those things in real interviews in the future.

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Presentations

All the presentations I saw this week were great. I learned a lot of new things and they were interesting to watch. The 3 that stick out in mind to me were Kelly's about dark chocolate, Mark's about the Chevy Volt, and Ken's about super cars. Kelly's presentation was well organized and I learned something I would have never thought, and that is that dark chocolate is actually good for you. It was also a bonus that she gave out the Dove candy, I really enjoyed that. Mark's presentation was also interesting to me because I love cars and always reading about new ones coming out, but I guess I missed the Volt. I had not heard of this car yet so it was cool to learn about it and see the new concept Chevy had with a electric car with a small engine that help charged the battery back up when it ran out of power. Then Ken's presentation was also interesting like I said because I enjoy learning about cars. And just like Ken his topic is something I like about cars too, SPEED! He had awesome pictures to go along with his slides and gave all the interesting facts about them that make those cars supercars. So, that is the three presentations that I saw this week that really stuck out to me.