Last week I spoke to a career planning class at Quinnipiac University. They were a great group with well thought out questions. I took a lot away from that talk, the most important being, every college grad is afraid of falling flat on their face! I was too when I graduated from Quinnipiac four short years ago...
Some of the things that we talked about were the fundamentals of preparing for an interview, from dressing appropriately, to arriving on time and bringing multiple copies of your resume. The surprising thing to me was that the students really went beyond the fundamentals and asked questions like: What do I do if I have prepared for the interview but I am asked something and I'm not sure how to answer? My answer: Be honest, be concise and give the best educated answer you can with the knowledge you have on the company...I'm not sure that is what they wanted to hear, but it is what I believe to be the truth!
I have fallen and gotten back up a number of times since then, and I can't think of any better way to learn. I think college grads these days, more so than when I graduated, are looking for a definitive answer to all their questions, and things aren't black and white all the time and that's ok... as a matter of fact a lot of the job hunting process falls into gray area.
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