Public Speaker Today!

Wednesday February 15, 2012

    EXCITING DAY!  I worked for over two hours on my resume that I brought to class today!  We had a speaker talk to us about things like interview, proper clothing, and proper things to do at the beginning of a job or internship.  The speaker was well informed on her topics.  I learned that it actually is a good thing to tell stories about yourself during an interview because it helps make a personal connection between the interviewee and the potential candidate.  I already knew that when you are asked “what is your biggest weakness?” that you are supposed to make a good quality sound kind of bad.  My answer is usually that I sometimes take on too many tasks at once.  I am a perfectionist and always want a job to be done very well and organized so I usually take the job on more personally to make sure it is awesome.  This actually has gotten me stressed before.  In high school I would always get paired up with people who didn’t care about their grades and would not do anything on projects, so it was up to me to either do only my part and fail because the other person did nothing, or do the whole thing and get a good grade. 
    I also found out that I need to start setting aside more money for clothes!  Everyone was dressed so nicely today!  I had a long sleeve shirt on and brown pants.  I actually don’t own any dressy clothes because I never go anywhere important.  So all I own is jeans and T-shirts!  I will be doing methods and pre-teaching in the fall, so I have to make sure I get some nice, proper clothes this summer!  I definitely do not want to look like a bum or unprofessional!!!!!
    I found some things useful, but I already knew a lot of the things we discussed.  I have been to several interviews over the years, and I always either get a second interview, or get offered the job on the spot.  This has happened with Ace Hardware, Maurice’s, Old Navy, and more.  So I think that my strategy is working.  However, I will have to change it up a bit when it is time for a professional job interview.  I plan on being a teacher on or by a military base, so I will definitely have competition!
    It is always appreciated when a teacher had speakers such as this come into the class and talk about what it is like in the job-world.  I find it easier to get many different ideas and techniques from different people and combine them in order to fit my personality and specialties.  I actually kept all the handouts we got today and filed them in my cabinet next to my resume and other things that I have for jobs.  I can’t wait until I can actually use these techniques when being interviewed for my career in History for Secondary Education!