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STEPS to Successful Career
Planning
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 | The STEPS model - Implementation
 | How to market yourself
Interviewing
 | The Keys to Interviewing: Behavioral
Interviewing Employers' Areas of Interest
Academics
and Co-curricular Activities
| What is your GPA and why? How have you managed work,
activities and classes? |
| How did you decide on your college? on your major? |
| How have you organized and managed your time and commitments? |
| What was your most difficult, trying, or least favorite class
and why? |
| What was your favorite or easiest class and why? |
| What decisions did you have to make and why? What process did
you use to make the decisions? |
| Did you have problems that you overcame? What were the
problems? How did you overcome them? |
| What were your best and worst writing assignments? |
| What presentations did you make for your classes? |
Strengths,
Weaknesses, Abilities
| What motivates you? |
| What is your greatest attribute or ability? |
| What are your strengths? What three words best describe you?
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| What would your supervisor or co-workers say about you? (Ask
them!) |
| What are your weaknesses? Where do you need improvement? |
| What is your greatest mistake or failure? What did you
learn? What have you done differently since then? |
| What leadership skills have you successfully used? |
| What adaptations have you made in your leadership style to
accommodate others? |
Maturity and Readiness
| Do you take ownership of your successes and failures? |
| Are you knowledgeable about your accomplishments and where you
need improvement? |
| Based on what you have learned, what would you do
differently or what have you done differently? |
Work and Volunteer
Experience
| How did you make a difference? |
| How did you organize and plan your work on a daily basis? For
a major project? |
| How did you use your communication and interpersonal skills in
dealing with customers, clients or members of a group project? |
| Who came to you for assistance or help? Why did they come to
you? How did you make a difference? |
| What was your role in team projects? Be specific. |
| What problems or difficult situations did you have to resolve,
manage, or negotiate? |
| What were the circumstances and results when working with
irate customers, clients, or co-workers? |
| What are your leadership skills and how do you adapt them to
meet the needs of your team and/or co-workers? |
| How do you organize and prioritize work, projects, and
commitments? |
| Have you managed multiple tasks successfully or
unsuccessfully? What were they and how did you manage them? |
Goals
| What goals have you accomplished? How did you go about
achieving them? |
| What are your immediate and future goals? |
| How do you arrive at determining what your goals are? |
Projects
| How do your projects relate to the work you would be doing
for the company? |
| How did you organize, plan and carry out the project? |
| Did you plan for problems, delays, and time constraints? Did
you build in contingencies? |
| What analytical skills did you use? |
| What presentation, interpersonal, and written communication
skills were required? |
| What leadership skills were required from you? |
| Did you have to resolve teammate problems? Did you have to
persuade team member/s to your way of thinking? |
| Did you or others have an argument with a teammate that
required your interpersonal/listening/negotiating skills? |
Computer Skills
| What computer skills do you have and where have you used
them? |
| What hardware, software, languages, systems have you used? |
| Did you learn them in a class or did you learn them on your
own? |
| Now that you have some basic categories to work on, you can
begin to plan to answer them in a behavior-based format in order to give a complete answer
to the interviewer. |
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