Today I attended the Target Corporation Workshop in the Newman Vertical Campus, where I learned about the interviewing process. Upon entering the lecture room, I was greeted by the representatives of Target Corporation. When everyone else that attended settled in their seats, the representatives began the presentation.
The presentation was very thorough and included the necessary steps and helpful tips in each slide. Through the first few slides, one of the representatives discussed the importance of doing research about a company to determine if it is suitable for one’s preferences. The second representative stressed the significance of preparing for an interview in advance in order to ensure one’s confidence when answering questions. The third representative presented helpful tips for conveying confidence during the interview, ways to mask one’s nervousness and questions that one may ask the interviewer at the end of the interview.
The content in the slides was familiar to me, as the Virtual Enterprise program in my high school prepared me for the interviewing process. Though I have prior knowledge of interviewing for jobs and was prepared for it in high school, I feel that this workshop really reinforced my knowledge of it and refreshed my memory of important things I forgot since then. What especially made the presentation helpful was the suggestions made about keeping one’s nervousness internal, since I am usually anxious before job interviews. Even some of the questions asked by other people who attended related to me and I found the representatives’ answers informative. For instance, one of the attendees inquired about whether or not it is okay to ask the interviewer to repeat their question. One of the representatives said that by asking an interviewer to repeat the question, one is showing eagerness to respond in the best way possible. This was new to me, as I always thought that it showed a weakness in the listening and communication skills of the person being interviewed.
Overall, I found the Target Corporation Workshop on interviewing very informative and helpful and hope to utilize the new interviewing skills I learned from it.