Cool Tools IV
Part II
Practice Interviewing Online
The
Hot Seat is a wacky but educational, virtual interview from Kaplan,
a company that specializes in test preparation, college admission and career
services. If you answer a question inappropriately, you start all over again!
On
a more serious note, practice to ace the interview in the Virtual
Interview at Monster.com, by answering
questions ranging "from puff ball to killer." Because they are
randomly-generated, you may practice several times without getting the same
questions in a row. You get immediate feedback for each of your answers, so
you'll know right away if you did well or not.
As
you answer questions in The Virtual
Interview, you are rated in competency, presentation and personality. Some
of the randomly-generated questions are straight forward. Others are challenging
or even inappropriate, to help you practice for many situations. If you see your
score drop after answering a question, you can click your browser back button
and answer it again. (Is that cheating or learning?) If you score well in an
interview, you are "called back" for another, for a total of three
interviews.
This is just one of the cool tools at Career Toolbox, a creation of Chivas Regal, the Scotch whiskey folks—of all people! (While it has little to do with boozing it up, only adults of legal drinking age are invited into the site.) It includes advice for improving your professional situation, making your cash work harder, doing your own thing, and landing the job you deserve. If you want to research employers, link to 10,000 company capsules provided by Hoover's Online. Career Toolbox has too many graphics and frames, which contribute to its slow response (the frames are why I couldn't deep-link you to everything), but it's still pretty cool and no doubt destined for awards.
Part I: Make Job Searching Easier
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