Entries in the Category "Management 250"
Mock Interview
This past Friday, September 22, I participated in the Career Center's Mock Interview day. My interview session with a recruiter from the Cleveland-based Eaton Corporation provided useful and interesting feedback. I was interested to see what interviewing styles the recruiter would use to provide a basis for her feedback. Of course, all material was by suggestion of the Career Center, and it provided my first experience with a behavioral interview. Many of the questions in the half hour session were open-ended, and asked me to provide examples of times that I completed certain types of tasks. I found many of these questions to be difficult, but was ultimately interested in her emphasis more so on how I answered the question, rather than what my answer contained.
The interview definitely corresponded to the types discussed in class; it was structured, behavioral, and professional in style. The recruiter also discussed with me the STAR (Situation Task Action Result) approach to answering behavioral questions, and overall gave me very useful feedback.
Welcome
This being my first attempt at blogging, I hope I can produce an "appropriate" introductory entry for Management 250's newest assignment. Thus, I find it fitting that this entry predict and outline my goals and aspirations for this semester of human resource education.
I have recently learned that I am an "accommodator", and according to the Learning Styles Inventory, this makes me a difficult person to deal with at times. People of my style are described as leaders and risk takers who enjoy influencing other people, but also waste time on "trivial improvements" and "meaningless activity". Although the results of the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator are pending, I plan on taking these alleged traits of mine into consideration as the class moves toward the Human Resource Simulation. I plan to make myself as accessible a teammate as possible, and feel that through these self-assessments I will be more aware of my strengths and weaknesses.
I am interested and excited about the Human Resource Simulation because it is an overwhelming amount of information to be absorbed and tested in such a short amount of time. I think this exercise will speak volumes as to the strengths of my peers and will bear strong relationship to the case, "The Strategy That Wouldn't Travel," as I'm sure every team member will come in with some theory carried from another situation. This will truly show which strategies will travel.
I am also looking forward to becoming better acquainted with my classmates and instructors and am looking forward to a busy semester.
Happy blogging!
Libby Robinson