Monthly Assignment on Job Searching (rolling deadline)

Assigned: Wednesday, January 23
Due: Open, but within a week of an actual job interview (i.e. before you forget what happened)

This assignment is intended to give you practice with additional components of the job search.

Option 1: Interview Thank you
Within a day or two of interviewing for a position, draft a thank-you note to the employer. Then send it to the employer. (You may need to attach a cover note to me explaining some background).

Guidance in writing thank-you notes is available through the textbook, CCO, or online. You can ask me, too-- and incorporate any suggestions you find useful before sending the real thing.

Option 2: Interview Report
Within a week or so of interviewing for a position, write me an informative memo describing the interview. Your goal is to give me a sense of current interview practices in your field.

Here are some prompt questions to get you started:

• who?: who interviewed you? What were the interviewer(s) names and titles? Your impressions of them?
• where? where did the interview take place: on campus, by phone, at their offices?
• how long was the interview?
• what questions did they ask? which were predictable and which were hard/ weird question?
• what preparation did you do that most helped?

You may reflect on how the interview went, too, but this information is not a requirement of the assignment.