highlighting the green campus internship in your job search
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From the 2010 Alliance to Save Energy Green Campus Energy Efficiency Summit – Greening the Campus, Building the WorkforceTRANSCRIPT
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Steve Miller Jocelyn Orr_______
Sean Higbee___________ Doug White_________________
Amelia Gulling_____________________
Highlighting The Green Campus Internship in Your Job Search
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Session Purpose & Format
• Offer some tips on interviewing best practices and the related value of the GC internship
• Present (multiple) peer testimonials and tips from recent GC alumni
• Call out your own experiences and ask burning questions!
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A Few Interviewing Tips
• Preparation: They key for keeping control – Know your strengths – Know what you like to do – Know what type of contribution you can make
• Typical process: – A screening interview: Often conducted over the phone, and
many times by an employee within Human Resources. Important to emphasize your technical skills and educational/employment background.
– The employment interview: One or a series of discussions, that will includes the hiring manager. Important to emphasize your compatibility/fit to:
• The organization’s goals and mission • The people/culture • The job function and technical requirements.
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A Few Interviewing Tips
• Networking happens all the time - Practice the 30 second drill (your elevator speech): – Tell me who you are – What you want – How I can help
• Prepare for all interviews – Focus on the 3 main points that you want to leave behind – What the organization does and how it’s structured – How you can make a difference – Ask pointed questions – Take control…It’s your future! – 99% of all interviews are cultural
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Behavior Based Interviews
– Based on the assumption that past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior (and performance)
• Research shows that traditional interview questions (e.g.: Where do you see yourself in 5 years? What are your strengths and weaknesses?) yield little predictive validity
– Requires the interviewer to ask a pre-defined set of questions (organized around core competencies), that challenge you to describe how you have handled situations in the past.
– Even when posed with a ‘traditional’ interview question, you can still utilize behavior-based examples in your answers.
• (e.g.: If asked about a particular job-related strength, answer, but then provide an example of how you successfully exhibited this quality/skill in the past.)
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Behavior Based Interviewing
• Examples of behavioral interviewing questions/probes:
– Tell me about a significant work/school accomplishment, and what steps you took to get there.
– Describe a particularly difficult problem that you recently had to solve.
– Describe how you approach learning a new technical skill/task.
– Describe your work style, how a new manager can extract the most contribution out of you, and a recent example of this.
– Tell me about a time when you have taken a risk and it’s paid off. What did you do and what were the results?
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Behavior Based Interviews and the Green Campus Experience
• Some behavior based questions where you can clearly leverage the Green Campus experience.
– Tell me about a time when you were part of a team, charged with a timely and ambitious goal.
– Describe a time when you were able to apply your coursework to a campus/community problem or challenge.
– Tell me about a situation in which you had to sell a project, program or concept to classmates or campus/community members.
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The Case Study Response Using the STAR Method
When answering a behavioral question, remember to tell a story!
• S (State the situation – the problem or challenge.)
• T (Define the specific task, strategy or objective.)
• A (Describe the actions that you took.)
• R (Relay the results that you achieved.)
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The Case Study Response Using the STAR Method
• Example: Tell me about a creative idea that you pursued in an attempt to foster more sustainable practices on campus?
– Situation: Talk about campus pressures (AUPCOCC, Campus/System Green Building and Clean Energy Standards,) students concern for taking local action to address climate change, etc.
– Task: As part of a student-led team to address energy waste on campus, I saw a need for and proposed Project ‘A’…
– Action: First, I developed a scope of work. Next, I presented the project plan to a collection of critical campus stakeholders, etc.
– Result: After just one quarter of rolling out this project… • 500 kWh in measured electricity savings, that translates to 700
pounds in avoided carbon emissions. • Based on these results, the Housing Services Department agreed
to expand this pilot effort to all first year residence halls…
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Green Campus Alumni Experiences
BUT DON’T TAKE MY WORD ON IT…
• Jocelyn Orr • Sean Higbee • Doug White • Amelia Gulling
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Open Q&A
• Can you offer additional interview experiences?
• What burning career search questions do you have?
• How do you suggest talking about your Green Campus internship in order to set yourself apart from other candidates?