Interview Workshop
The Student Interview Workshop, co-sponsored
by the California Section, the Santa Clara Valley Section and
the NorCal Section of AIChE, again conducted highly successful
workshops in northern California. This is the 10th year
that we have conducted this workshop. It consists of a
short presentation on how to prepare for an interview and a
demonstration mock interview for the students. Then we
break into small groups of students and two coaches, and each
student is interviewed and critiqued. The importance and
opportunities offered by professional societies such as ACS and
AIChE is also covered.
In 2014, we conducted the program at the
University of California at Davis where eighteen students,
mostly in Chemical Engineering participated and at
Stanford University, where 29 did. The feedback was
generally good. Some of the participants comments are:
1. "Loved the mock interviews. The questions
asked were real eye opener! Tips were great!"
2. "I thought it was very helpful talking to
the representatives because although many of them were
engineers, they were in very different areas.
3. "The group sending feedback was very
helpful to examine my own ability in interviewing skills and how
to improve."
4. "All of the coaches were extremely
receptive to helping students. The most helpful part was the
practice interviews, where critiques were given on interviewing
skills."
5. "I had no idea about job interviews so
that now it becomes clear what there will be and what I should
prepare."
6. "The practice interview session was
definitely most helpful. It was good to get feedback both from
the coaches and my peers. I feel much more at ease about the
interview process."
This program is a collaboration between the
Santa Clara Valley Local Section, the California Local section
and the NorCal Section of AIChE. The coaches included 4
ACS members and 3 AIChE members.
--Natalie McClure
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