After earning a college degree, it is but normal for newly graduates to look for a job after those hard work they’ve been through.
It needs patient and perseverance to be able to get one. To start with, the first thing you need to do is marketing yourself to prospective employers of your choice.
During the job interview, most likely you’ll be asked, “What degree you have completed?” and “You majored in what?”. At any rate, you need to be able to define and articulately demonstrate the value of your completed course to the interviewer.
It is a matter of expounding more in detail of what might probably be unknown to others, to give your interviewer an idea and help him or her evaluate of how and where you can likely be effectively utilized for a possible posting based on your course training especially if the job you’re applying is not interrelated to your course.
If your course training let’s say exposed you in formulating, weighing ideas and accordingly reach a conclusion, this is something that the company’s human resources development (HRD) would apprise you that you could be an asset to their company’s business interest of brainstorming.
Or if your course training gives you an understanding about people, their condition and behavior you might be a better choice as a social worker or any job that deals with people and so on. The idea here is beyond your major whatever it is, you may have a lot of information to tell and how your experiences would make you a good employee.
For all you know this can be crucial and may be the turning point for you of being hired. The reason why company is conducting a personal job interview, is that they wanted to connect to you and know you even better.
It could be, of how effective you are in verbal communication, your personal random ideas and thoughts, their general impression of you as a person but most importantly “your other potential” where you can likely be utilized other than the job you are applying for. In a recession period of the economy, businesses opt for a multi task environment for their workers to save cost.
Some graduates with no experience may wonder what they have to offer over an applicant with a lot of experience.
However, company knows better that job newbies, are less expensive compared to their well experienced counterparts especially in this tough economic times.
Besides, newly graduates have a better grasp to latest technology where most of them are using the net and other technology that connect them globally and where most of the businesses nowadays are predominantly operating in this kind of system.