WDM4413 Professional Practice for Multimedia

1. Pick a Job Title from last week, or find a new job listing you might apply for.

2. Learn more about the company by using Internet Resources. See if you can find the following:

• Size of the company
• Names of people who work for the company
• Names of persons who might interview you
• Someone you know who might be connected to the company
• Specific projects or types of projects the company has done in the last six months
• Working conditions at the company

3. Enter the information you find in an HTML document. Include the name of the company and the position title.

4. Upload your HTML file to a server and link to it from this Wiki page Add the name of the company after your name and link it to your HTML page.

Congratulations, you got the interview. Now it's time to plan for the interview. Help ace the interview by having questions you want to ask your interviewer(s).

Write up a list of ten questions you would like to ask your interviewers about the job and the company. For some ideas, refer to this article on Interview Questions to Ask.

Once you have ten questions, rate them 1 - 10 in order of importance

Write up your questions and add them to your previous HTML page.

Look through this article on Behavior-based Interviewing

What is a behavior-based interview? What kinds of questions will be asked?

What's a good strategy or technique for responding to behavioral interview questions?

Add your answers to your previous HTML page

Many employers will now do a Google Search on potential employees, as well as checking social sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and others.

First, read Six Twitter/Facebook Mistakes That Can Get You Fired

For this exercise, we'll each try to find out what we can about one of our classmates.

• Find out what position your classmate is applying for, and which company
• Try a Google Search, and look up your classmate on Facebook and/or MySpace
• Find three things you think might make your classmate more attractive to the employer
• Find three things you think might make your classmate less attractive to the employer

We won't be publishing these, but we will talk about them in class.

Now that you've researched the company, write a cover letter to go with your application for the position. Review this article on Cover Letters for some useful tips on what to include in your letter.

Know a company you'd love to work for, but there aren't any positions listed that you could fill. Try writing a Cold Cover Letter instead.

Upload a .pdf of your letter to the course wiki, and link it from the Research the Position page, or write the letter as an HTML file and link it to the page.

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