{"id":951,"date":"2012-10-28T20:03:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T00:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/cld\/?p=951"},"modified":"2012-10-28T20:03:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T00:03:35","slug":"group-mentoring-group-4-session-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/2012\/10\/group-mentoring-group-4-session-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Group Mentoring, Group 4 Session 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By: Ara Barotilla, Leadership Class of 2016<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Topic: First impressions and interviews<\/p>\n<p>First Impressions \u2013<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be confident (most important)<\/li>\n<li>Not cocky\/arrogant<\/li>\n<li>Be concise<\/li>\n<li>Clear of thought<\/li>\n<li>Be personable, natural<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Interviews \u2013<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be prepared<\/li>\n<li>Have stories ready<\/li>\n<li>Bring it back to relevant skills<\/li>\n<li>Research the company\n<ul>\n<li>Know what goes on<\/li>\n<li>Read filings\/financials<\/li>\n<li>Ask questions about the company\n<ul>\n<li>Shows confidence, lets them know you are interested<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t ask questions you can find answers to by doing research<\/li>\n<li>Question things like the work environment<\/li>\n<li>Be honest<\/li>\n<li>Admit flaws but mention that you are working on it, improving<\/li>\n<li>Get the person to understand who you are\n<ul>\n<li>Talk about interests<\/li>\n<li>Strongest points<\/li>\n<li>Topics you know well<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other Things Mentioned \u2013<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Build a good network\n<ul>\n<li>Stay in contact<\/li>\n<li>Build throughout career, not just when you need it<\/li>\n<li>Better to be promoted than ask for a promotion<\/li>\n<li>Build relationships with your superiors in a work environment\n<ul>\n<li>These mentors can pull you along<\/li>\n<li>Remembers your effort<\/li>\n<li>Make it known you have a lot to offer\n<ul>\n<li>Open to other positions<\/li>\n<li>Worry about yourself\n<ul>\n<li>There will be injustices, dwelling on them won\u2019t accomplish anything<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t compare yourself to others<\/li>\n<li>Always love what you\u2019re doing \u2013 passion allows you to excel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Ara Barotilla, Leadership Class of 2016 &nbsp; Topic: First impressions and interviews First Impressions \u2013 Be confident (most important) Not cocky\/arrogant Be concise Clear of thought Be personable, natural&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":412,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[349,647,130,118],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-team-insight","tag-first-impressions","tag-group-mentoring","tag-interviews","tag-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/412"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":952,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions\/952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}