CARD 415 Week 7 Assignment

CARD 415  Week 7 Assignment| Devry University

Week 7: Practice Interview

Explore the tools and resources available through Career Services as you prepare for your interview assignment and approach graduation. Please review the instructions below.

Week 2: Register for and attend the Career Services Live Lesson or listen to the recording.

Week 7: Interview Assignment

1.    Access the Kaltura Capture User Guide in Course Resources > Student Resource Center and follow the steps in the tutorials under Kaltura (My Media) - Video Creation Tool.

2.    Find a degree-related job posting you are interested in (and qualified for) to use for this assignment.

3.    Create a video interview recording using Kaltura Capture to record responses to six interview questions around the job posting you chose, including the introductory question, two general questions you select, two behavioral-based interview questions you select, and then the final question below in your recording.

#1 Introductory Question

Introduce yourself to the hiring manager. Share your professional brand message. Explain why you are interested in the position you chose for this assignment and why you believe you are a strong fit. Share the value you will bring to this position and organization.

General Interview Questions: Select 2

§  What do you consider to be some of your strong points?

§  What areas are you working to improve?

§  Describe a difficult work situation or project and how you overcame it.

§  Share how previous supervisors and colleagues would describe you.

§  What makes you unique?

§  How would you rate your organizational skills?

§  How do you handle stress and pressure?

§  What is your greatest accomplishment?

§  What are your goals for the future?

§  Why should we hire you?

Behavioral Interview Questions: Select 2

§  Share an example of how you were able to motivate employees or coworkers.

§  Describe a stressful situation at work and how you handled it.

§  What do you do if you disagree with someone at work?

§  Tell me about a time when you had to resolve an issue with a coworker.

§  Describe a decision you made that wasn't popular, and explain how you handled implementing the decision.

§  Give an example of how you worked on a team.

§  Have you ever made a mistake? How did you handle it?

§  Tell me about a time when you were not able to complete a project on time.

§  Give an example of a goal you reached and tell me how you achieved it.

§  Tell me about the toughest decision you've had to make in the past year.

#6 Final Question: After conducting research on the company for the position you chose, share one question you want to ask the hiring manager that you cannot find the answer to on the website or in LinkedIn.

You will need to dress appropriately for this recording as if you were really going to a professional interview.

Paste the shareable link to your Recorded Interview into Microsoft Word. Also submit a copy of the job ad pasted into a Microsoft Word document (the complete ad, not a screenshot or a link to the job posting) by the Sunday 11:59 p.m. MT deadline.

1.    Submit the shareable Recorded Interview link pasted into Microsoft Word and save as InterviewLinkLASTName.docx.

2.    Submit the Complete Job Ad for which you were interviewing and saved as JobAdLASTname.docx.

Check to ensure that you have submitted a shareable link to your Recorded Interview video. Look for the Share icon in the upper left of the video.

A shareable link will be in this format: https://lms.devry.edu/lms/video/player.html?video=1_xxxxxx.

The grading rubric for this assignment is listed below.

Note: As an alternative, Mock Interviews may be conducted via live WebEx in large or small groups. Follow your professor's instructions as to how this may be conducted in this course.