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University Daily Kansan, August 25, 1982
Jim Henry, assistant director of the University Placement Center, and Mary Koenigsman. Beloit graduate student, demonstrate a videotaped job interview. Videotaping allows students to review a job interview in preparation for interviews with possible employers.
Mock interviews arm students
By DON KNOX Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
In a bleak, white room in Carruthro'O'Leary Hall, a KU graduate student recently sat nervously waiting for her 2 p.m. job interview with a corporate recruiter. A neatly dressed man walked in slamming the door behind him.
"So," the man grumfy asked, folding his arms over his chest, "why should you work for our company?"
The recruiter was Jim Henry, assistant director of the University Placement Center. And the interview — being mock—was being videotaped.
It's all part of a one-year-old program designed to help students prepare for those difficult, and sometimes unexpected, questions that come up during a job interview. And, said Henry, the pro-factor, mock interviews really work.
"Most students just don't know how to answer the question of questions that recruiters ask," Henry said. "They're timid, they're usually reserved and, more often than not, they don't get the job."
But after watching themselves being interviewed, Henry said, most students were too nervous.
"NOMETIMES THEY just don't like the way they appear," he said, explaining that hairline and dress are key elements in any interview. "And sometimes they mees up so bad they decide to do it all over again."
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Wendy Rojas, a 1981 KU graduate now working for the First National Bank in Midland, Texas, said, "I think I will interview interviews are a practical experience."
Corporations that often conduct on-campus interviews, Henry said, include Union Oil, Atlantic Richfield, K Mart, Foxmoor Casuals, Johnson Wax Bar, Foxmoor and Pfizer Chemical and others—more than 100 in all—will visit KU this year.
Rojas was offered a job in the bank's human resources department after an interview.
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A legal notepad, sitting on Henry's desk, is filled with 150 names of students who worked at the university and were later offered jobs from large corporations.
And Rojas, Henry was quick to point out, was just one student who benefited from the placement center's interview program.
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Suits and ties are musts for men looking for jobs, Henry said, and women should either wear dresses or business suits. Henry also tells students to prepare a specific, but brief, resume, to help them talk freely about their successes.
"It's a great chance that a lot of students don't know about," Henry said. They were
AND, HENRY SAID, the applicant should never ask the employer what the salary will be at the interview.
"The jobs are there," Henry said, sitting in front of a mounted camera and a 18-inch monitor. "It's just that a man can see better than it doesn't prepare to interview for them."
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