Monday, July 11, 2005

Networking & Interviewing Workshop

On Friday, I attended the "Networking & Interview Workshop" organized by Helen Trimble - the SDM career placement officer. The person who presented the workshop was Dan King, a career development consultant with Career Planning & Management. It is no surprise that the theme of the workshop is networking, in particular Dan urged everyone that the key of finding in one's ideal job and consequently getting hired is networking. In all, I walked away from the workshop with some new ideas and inspirations. The most interesting data that I found in the workshop is that today, 70% of the professionals found their jobs through networking and only 5% of the pool found their jobs through job postings. I am still not buying King's questionable figure, but I do agree that networking is significant in landing someone his/her dream job. In any case, John, a fellow classmate has effectively summarized King's prominent ideas in his earlier email:

  1. Always prefer networking methods to getting a job over “open, public knowledge” methods: you’re in more control when networking.
  2. Always be on the lookout for networking contacts, even at the barber, hairdresser, or donut shop. But never ask your networking contacts directly for a job, that's a NO-NO.
  3. Never, in an interview, climb up on the table with your elbows and get too "in-your-face," or conversely, slouch way down and adopt an "I don’t care" posture.
  4. Never let your leg get to rockin’, or shuck and jive, bip and bop, keep your limbs relaxed instead of communicating nervousness. Fold hands in lap if necessary.
  5. Never lick your palm and shake hands like a wuss. Conversely, do not “bone crush” your interviewer in an annoying display of male dominance.
  6. Always have an answer to the most common interview question: “Tell me about yourself.”
  7. Always have an answer to the most common “gotchya” question and its variants: "What is your weakness?"

Well John, thanks for the summary. Of course, these are some of the highlights of Dan's workshop.

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