Interview Preparation
The purpose of this assignment is to help you begin forming responses to common interview questions. You are welcome to reference this document as we practice interviewing in class. You are welcome to use bulleted statements or type in full sentences for this assignment (I usually find bulleted statements more useful…that way, you don’t try to memorize specific lines, but focus on key points you want to communicate).
Tell me about yourself. (Fill in the common content areas below).
Education: Currently, I am a junior at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. I am majoring in Agricultural and Food Business Management with an emphasis in entrepreneurship and business management. I choose this major because I have a strong passion in wanting to know …show more content…
Write a narrative describing the situation, task, action and result for question 1:
S: I was working at my first job, when I was a young teenager. I was fairly new to the department, and I was the only one closing that night.
T: My boss left me a list of things that I was supposed to accomplish during the night. As I was working hard stocking produce, a customer that came to our store regularly, was out and about shopping and he happened to stop in our department. Usually the customer would buy a lot of peppers and he was extremely picky on the condition of each pepper before he bought them. I noticed that he looked unhappy, so I stopped what I was doing and went over to assist him. He complained to me about the conditioning of the peppers.
A: I quickly went in our backroom to grab him fresh product, and I also ended up calling one of our vendors to find out why our peppers weren’t looking the greatest. I ended up finding out that there was a weather issue, which caused the peppers to look like that. I went out and gave the customer fresher peppers and briefly explained the situation to
The purpose of this assignment is to help you begin forming responses to common interview questions. You are welcome to reference this document as we practice interviewing in class. You are welcome to use bulleted statements or type in full sentences for this assignment (I usually find bulleted statements more useful…that way, you don’t try to memorize specific lines, but focus on key points you want to communicate).
Tell me about yourself. (Fill in the common content areas below).
Education: Currently, I am a junior at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. I am majoring in Agricultural and Food Business Management with an emphasis in entrepreneurship and business management. I choose this major because I have a strong passion in wanting to know …show more content…
Write a narrative describing the situation, task, action and result for question 1:
S: I was working at my first job, when I was a young teenager. I was fairly new to the department, and I was the only one closing that night.
T: My boss left me a list of things that I was supposed to accomplish during the night. As I was working hard stocking produce, a customer that came to our store regularly, was out and about shopping and he happened to stop in our department. Usually the customer would buy a lot of peppers and he was extremely picky on the condition of each pepper before he bought them. I noticed that he looked unhappy, so I stopped what I was doing and went over to assist him. He complained to me about the conditioning of the peppers.
A: I quickly went in our backroom to grab him fresh product, and I also ended up calling one of our vendors to find out why our peppers weren’t looking the greatest. I ended up finding out that there was a weather issue, which caused the peppers to look like that. I went out and gave the customer fresher peppers and briefly explained the situation to