Speaker 1: Cal Poly is in session. Students swarm through campus and
Speaker 1: file in and out of classes. They're thinking about the
Speaker 1: next chapter reading they have tonight, their next class, their
Speaker 1: new dorm, their senior project, how to get to the gym,
Speaker 1: what's for dinner tonight? Where's the nearest bathroom? Kate and
Speaker 1: I know things can get a bit chaotic as a
Speaker 1: student navigating the ins and outs of college life.
Speaker 2: At cal Poly.
Speaker 3: We focus on learning by doing, but sometimes you don't
Speaker 3: know what to do well.
Speaker 2: Emma and I are here to answer your who, what, when, where,
Speaker 2: why and howse here.
Speaker 3: On CP one oh one Learned by Listening, presented by
Speaker 3: KCPR ninety one point three. Hi Mustang, I'm Kate lopensk
Speaker 3: a fourth year journalism student.
Speaker 1: And I'm Emma Hughes, a fourth year English student here
Speaker 1: at cal Poly, and.
Speaker 3: We're here to share our tell all guide on how
Speaker 3: to survive and thrive at cal Poly.
Speaker 1: San Luis Obispo. So grab a notebook. You may want
Speaker 1: to write this down.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to another episode of CP one and one.
Speaker 3: And I'm so excited about this one because I feel
Speaker 3: like it's going to be our most useful episode to date.
Speaker 1: Totally Today, we'll be talking about how to find a
Speaker 1: job on campus, in slow and anywhere else you may
Speaker 1: be interested in working. The job hunt can be an
Speaker 1: intimidating process, but with our expertise on finding a job
Speaker 1: and with the help and advice of a career services
Speaker 1: will help walk you through this daunting task.
Speaker 3: Today, we're going to talk about how we got our jobs,
Speaker 3: different types of jobs that you can get, interview tips,
Speaker 3: and how to stand out while you're applying. We also
Speaker 3: have a special guest, a career counselor, who will offer
Speaker 3: some professional insight on finding a job.
Speaker 1: As two girlies who love to shop and spend, we
Speaker 1: understand the desire for money to fuel our consumerist addictions.
Speaker 1: So bad, so bad, but also you know, to be
Speaker 1: able to eat and live or have like an apartment
Speaker 1: to live in and not to mention just this need
Speaker 1: to build our resumes.
Speaker 3: So that's why we want to share our insight on
Speaker 3: how to find the right job for you to put
Speaker 3: a little extra money in the bank or get some
Speaker 3: valuable work experience.
Speaker 2: So, Emma, what do you do for work? What I do?
Speaker 1: Let's see, I mean I'm currently working three jobs, but
Speaker 1: they're all actually through cal Poly. So I am teaching
Speaker 1: a class here in the English one thirty four class professor. Yes,
Speaker 1: and I do want to be a teacher. So it's
Speaker 1: like perfect right up my alley, giving me that work
Speaker 1: experience that I want building my resume, but also getting
Speaker 1: money in the bank, like you said, So I'm doing that.
Speaker 1: I'm also a TA for one of my professors, so grading,
Speaker 1: lots and lots of grading. But that is also good
Speaker 1: because I get a nice little paycheck. And then I
Speaker 1: work at the children's center on campus, so I'm doing
Speaker 1: those three little things right now.
Speaker 3: I admire you so much for working at the children's
Speaker 3: center because it seems like like it seems like a job.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I have stuck with these kiddo's for over a year now,
Speaker 1: and we're in the throes of potty training, which is
Speaker 1: its own you know, source of challenges. But no more
Speaker 1: diapers for me. But Kate, I'm curious to hear about
Speaker 1: what you do for work.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I work low key, like five jobs,
Speaker 3: but I wanted to focus more so on the one
Speaker 3: that's really paying me right now because a lot of
Speaker 3: my jobs are actually more so for resume building and
Speaker 3: work experience a lot of my ed M work and
Speaker 3: all that stuff.
Speaker 2: It's not paid, oh yeah, but but we let's do it.
Speaker 3: We're working on love Yeah, I get free and mission
Speaker 3: to events and everything like that.
Speaker 2: So I'm not complaining. But right now I work at
Speaker 2: Sunday car Wash.
Speaker 1: Lovely go get.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, literally everyone sings that to my face every
Speaker 3: single time I tell them that I work at the
Speaker 3: car wash. I want to talk a little bit about how,
Speaker 3: like how I got the job, because I feel like
Speaker 3: this is something that a lot of students are interested in,
Speaker 3: just like this kind of like.
Speaker 2: Retail esque work.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I saw on LinkedIn that they were hiring for
Speaker 3: a position that it was higher up. It wasn't like
Speaker 3: a member of like the hospitality team, which is what
Speaker 3: I wanted to do, just like customer service and like
Speaker 3: greeting customers and all that stuff. But I saw that
Speaker 3: they were looking so I just sent an email to
Speaker 3: the address on their website and immediately they got back
Speaker 3: to me and we set up an interview time and
Speaker 3: I was hired on the spot, which was so clutch. Sure,
Speaker 3: and I've now been working there for a year, which
Speaker 3: is really fun. I just celebrated my one year universary
Speaker 3: with my one and only Sunday car Wash.
Speaker 2: I love that, so I encourage you.
Speaker 3: To just send the email if you find the address,
Speaker 3: and just go for it, because I might as.
Speaker 1: Well try totally. I mean, the way that I was
Speaker 1: able to find, like my job was through since they
Speaker 1: were through cal Poly. I mean some of them are different,
Speaker 1: but more specifically the Children's Center. It was like I
Speaker 1: went on the cow Poly website and looked up what
Speaker 1: jobs they had, and I saw the Children's Center and
Speaker 1: I was like, that is right up my alley. I
Speaker 1: am definitely going to apply. I think it was also
Speaker 1: listed on indeed dot com, and indeed was just so
Speaker 1: easy to scroll through to like find jobs, like any
Speaker 1: job was listed on their cow Poly jobs, jobs for
Speaker 1: the businesses downtown, things like that, and I was just
Speaker 1: able to like scroll through and be like, Okay, what
Speaker 1: am I interested in working in? So that was helpful
Speaker 1: for me to just like narrow down my like search
Speaker 1: and find what I would actually be interested in, because
Speaker 1: I think Indeed dot Com also has search categories that
Speaker 1: you can then be like, oh, I'm interested in healthcare
Speaker 1: or something like that.
Speaker 2: I mean, gotta love job recruitment websites, right, so I.
Speaker 1: Love also for like being a TA. That was something
Speaker 1: like my professor just specifically like asked me. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: it would also recommend to like our faithful listeners out
Speaker 1: there just working on those relationships with like the people
Speaker 1: in your life, because my professor specifically asked me to
Speaker 1: work with them and be their TA. And that was
Speaker 1: something like I wasn't in the market for a job.
Speaker 1: I wasn't looking, but it was an opportunity that was
Speaker 1: given to me through those working relationships.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and we're going to circle back to how to
Speaker 3: actually find jobs later on, but right now, let's get
Speaker 3: into what kind of jobs you can get more specifically
Speaker 3: in Slow but also you know, outside of Slow because
Speaker 3: we're both kind of on that post grad job right
Speaker 3: now and it's really really scary. But yeah, first off,
Speaker 3: let's just talk about on campus jobs. This is what
Speaker 3: you're doing, yes, yeah, so you found that through cal Poly,
Speaker 3: and like there's so many different places you can work
Speaker 3: on campus. You got aside jobs which is like the
Speaker 3: rec center, children's center as well, correct, yes, all that
Speaker 3: fun stuff, campus dining, and then you also put here
Speaker 3: like research projects.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I did a research project over the summer.
Speaker 1: So it's like that was another opportunity to just work
Speaker 1: with a professor. But there's so many of those that
Speaker 1: are available for all majors in all colleges, and you
Speaker 1: just get a nice little stipend and it just goes
Speaker 1: directly towards your tuition, or you can choose to just
Speaker 1: get a check and then you're like you use it
Speaker 1: for tuition.
Speaker 3: Talk about productivity, I mean like if you're doing something
Speaker 3: for your major while also making it Yeah, yeah, not
Speaker 3: bank for seve, just making stipend, yes.
Speaker 1: No, but it's nice because you get it in like
Speaker 1: a lump sum. It's just I love seeing it. I'm like,
Speaker 1: that was like gorgeous.
Speaker 3: I'm just laughing that you use the term lump sum
Speaker 3: lumps Okay. And then also we have freelance work as well.
Speaker 3: This is kind of what I do. So one of
Speaker 3: the jobs that I have right now is through this
Speaker 3: travel company called smart Trip. I'm trying to get a
Speaker 3: full time job with them after I graduate.
Speaker 1: Okay, So sending thoughts in prayers for Kay please.
Speaker 3: And pretty much what I'm doing is I'm trying to
Speaker 3: get people who are studying abroad to use my promo
Speaker 3: code whenever they purchase a trip through Smart Trips and
Speaker 3: then I get commissioned off of that.
Speaker 1: And also just creating your own business. Yeah, like I
Speaker 1: know it seems really scary, but there's so many like
Speaker 1: cow poly students who have like a side hustle business.
Speaker 1: Like I know someone who makes cookies and cupcakes and
Speaker 1: just sells them. I know people who like do haircuts,
Speaker 1: and it's like something as simple as just having like
Speaker 1: an Instagram account to be like contact me for this
Speaker 1: and I'll I'll give you like goods.
Speaker 2: Like absolutely.
Speaker 3: I feel like the best example is probably Thrifty Beaches
Speaker 3: because that was started by a student just selling like
Speaker 3: thrifted clothes on Dexter Lawn and now they have headquarters
Speaker 3: in downtown Slow right.
Speaker 1: Well that's another thing, just Dexter Lawn in general, like
Speaker 1: if you just go, I mean, I don't know the
Speaker 1: logistics of how you can get a booth set up there,
Speaker 1: but people be booth and all the time and selling things.
Speaker 1: So it's today yeah, oh gorgeous.
Speaker 3: So for up and up stuff, I mean yeah, So
Speaker 3: there's lots of different things you can do.
Speaker 1: There's also just off campus jobs like food service, retail
Speaker 1: and just like paid internships. So there's definitely like so
Speaker 1: many opportunities and different avenues you can go when looking
Speaker 1: for a job.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so now let's get into how to actually
Speaker 3: find these jobs, because honestly, that's the most difficult part
Speaker 3: totally just like you don't even.
Speaker 2: Know where to start.
Speaker 3: So I mean, for Sunday, like I said, I saw
Speaker 3: it on LinkedIn and then I just like found the
Speaker 3: email address and just went for that. And then I
Speaker 3: actually had an internship I think two summers ago that
Speaker 3: I got through my through the Journalism Department's Career Fair.
Speaker 3: Oh so those yes, these employers like eat up cal Poly.
Speaker 2: Students, so they do they're doing you guys are.
Speaker 1: Just yeah, you really be out here doing the work
Speaker 1: you are doing it become prepared.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I got an internship at a PR firm
Speaker 3: and that totally helped my career growth and I actually
Speaker 3: got like some tangible work experience to put on my resume.
Speaker 2: So that was great for summer jobs and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: When I've worked.
Speaker 3: Retail, like they'll just be stores that I really like
Speaker 3: and I'll just walk in and be like, hey, are
Speaker 3: you guys hiring?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: Like I know it can be like a little scary,
Speaker 3: but I mean it's worth it.
Speaker 2: We'll just ask.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The worst they can say is no, and it's
Speaker 1: not you, it's them. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: I've been rejected so many times that sounds so sad.
Speaker 1: No, Yeah, I mean I totally agree with that. Just
Speaker 1: like asking around and seeing, you know, if people need
Speaker 1: help or like any services that you can offer them,
Speaker 1: like I touched on earlier, Like I just looked at Indeed,
Speaker 1: I looked at the cow Poly jobs. I know there's
Speaker 1: Handshake out there that you can like go to, and
Speaker 1: there's I even think there's like something called cow Poly Connect,
Speaker 1: which I've recently been exploring. Even if you don't have
Speaker 1: a specific job in mind, talking to friends and family
Speaker 1: or just like fact good team members on campus, like
Speaker 1: there's always someone out there who's looking for a little
Speaker 1: extra help and you might be the perfect fit.
Speaker 2: For that, exactly.
Speaker 3: Like literally just send your resume out to a bunch
Speaker 3: of places that excite you. You can DM people on
Speaker 3: social media, like Ema said, there's different websites like LinkedIn, indeed, Handshake,
Speaker 3: et cetera. And then just it's all about who you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Networking definitely is a big My major.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my major also sends out like a weekly newsletter
Speaker 3: with job opportunities, and I know that a lot of
Speaker 3: other majors also do that, so yeah, I like scroll.
Speaker 1: Every week I get a different email about a different
Speaker 1: job opportunity. So yeah, Also just check your emails.
Speaker 2: So which I know can be really hard, but I.
Speaker 1: Know I don't even want to get into my email like.
Speaker 2: List, guess how many I have in my box right now?
Speaker 1: How many?
Speaker 2: Seven?
Speaker 1: What I'm a really diligent like email shop, I have
Speaker 1: seven thousand.
Speaker 2: Different ties of people in this world. Like, yeah, I
Speaker 2: like when you said seven. I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: me too, because.
Speaker 1: I thought you've meant seven thousand. We maybe I'll pay
Speaker 1: you to go through my email.
Speaker 3: Okay, so let's go into interview tips because we've both
Speaker 3: successfully secured jobs.
Speaker 2: I don't know how, but we did it.
Speaker 1: You listen to this podcast, you're like, they have jobs
Speaker 1: or no, I feel that. I feel that, But surprisingly
Speaker 1: we do.
Speaker 3: What has worked for you in the past, what what
Speaker 3: has made you feel confident? Like, have you gotten any
Speaker 3: feedback from past employers?
Speaker 1: Being human honestly works in your favor When you're like interviewing,
Speaker 1: like being confident in who you are and then being
Speaker 1: able to, you know, sound natural when speaking. And I
Speaker 1: know it's so hard because for the most part you're nervous,
Speaker 1: like when you're the people who are interviewing you, like
Speaker 1: if you can relate to them, like find something that
Speaker 1: you both like you share a belief or value system
Speaker 1: or anything like that, and you somehow work that into
Speaker 1: the conversation. That is what I find is like the
Speaker 1: most successful for me in an interview, things like that,
Speaker 1: Just being relatable going in, being confident in your skills
Speaker 1: and abilities like that is what's gonna make you stand
Speaker 1: out the most.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean I feel like being vulnerable has also worked
Speaker 3: for me in the past because I feel like a
Speaker 3: very common question that's asked is like think of a
Speaker 3: time where you faced adversity or like a tough time
Speaker 3: in your life, and how did you overcome it. Yeah, so,
Speaker 3: like I haven't been afraid to like dig deep with
Speaker 3: my possible future employer.
Speaker 2: And then there's also some more like surface.
Speaker 3: Level things that you wouldn't necessarily think about but are
Speaker 3: actually very important on the day of the interview, Like,
Speaker 3: for example, I cannot wear clothes that I know I'm gonna.
Speaker 2: Be fidgeting with.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like I need to be wearing something super comfortable
Speaker 3: that's like both professional looking and also like I know
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna have to like pick at it right, Yeah, because.
Speaker 1: I completely agree, And especially if I'm wearing a dress
Speaker 1: or a skirt, just like even how I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: sitting in the chair like legs crossed, but not over
Speaker 1: the knee because you don't want to accidentally flash anyone.
Speaker 1: Things like that.
Speaker 3: Also, like the one thing that my dad told me
Speaker 3: is like when an employer asks do you have any
Speaker 3: other questions for me? Or is there anything else you'd
Speaker 3: like to know, you need to have an answer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't agree.
Speaker 2: I'm good I don't.
Speaker 1: Given those questions, it shows you're interested in the job,
Speaker 1: Like it's showing that you value the time. Also, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: even though the interview is more to see if you're
Speaker 1: qualified for the job, it's also an opportunity for you
Speaker 1: to see if this company or this organization fits in
Speaker 1: with your own personal like values, morals things like that,
Speaker 1: like are you gonna fit in there? This is your
Speaker 1: chance to ask Yeah totally. And part of that too,
Speaker 1: I think is doing research on what the company or
Speaker 1: the organization is. Again going back to the children's center,
Speaker 1: they have a very unique teaching philosophy. So like, I
Speaker 1: did research on how to like incorporate that in my
Speaker 1: interview and be like this, like I know you guys
Speaker 1: value x Y and Z. I too value X Y
Speaker 1: and Z, and like, I've practiced this through this job
Speaker 1: experience and this work experience and things like that. So
Speaker 1: being able to like again just show your investment and
Speaker 1: commitment to this job in this organization will go a
Speaker 1: long way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, but let's now get into how we've stood
Speaker 3: out in pools of other competition, et cetera. We'll get
Speaker 3: more professional details about this from the career counselor, but
Speaker 3: like I'm curious to know, like, how do you think
Speaker 3: you've been able to make yourself stand out against other applicants?
Speaker 1: I think having work experience that is reflective of what
Speaker 1: I want to do long term. That way, every job
Speaker 1: I'm going into, I have proof of why I am
Speaker 1: qualified to do this job because I have done similar
Speaker 1: work in the past. Having intention with the jobs that
Speaker 1: you are choosing to work really can go a long way,
Speaker 1: and really matters to your employer.
Speaker 2: That's a great tip.
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm personally more so all over the
Speaker 3: place when it comes to my jobs, but I know
Speaker 3: that I like my thing that I try to do
Speaker 3: is just always bring passion to the table. I convey
Speaker 3: like a genuine care for the purpose of the job,
Speaker 3: and that just immediately attracts employers. I always try to
Speaker 3: bring like unique ideas to the table, and like it.
Speaker 3: I always brainstorm before my interviews with like my friends
Speaker 3: or my parents or whatever and just be like, let's
Speaker 3: try to come up with something that this company hasn't
Speaker 3: maybe thought of yet, right, I could introduce. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: that goes a long way sometimes.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and no matter what job you get or
Speaker 1: work experience you're like having, it's going to transfer to
Speaker 1: your next job in some capacity. No matter what work
Speaker 1: you're actually doing, there's a skill there, there's a lesson
Speaker 1: there to be learned. So it's all it's all transferable.
Speaker 3: Now we have Jade Moreno from cal Poly Career Services
Speaker 3: to just give us a little bit more of a
Speaker 3: sophisticated and educated kind of information about how to find
Speaker 3: a job and just some good career tips overall, Hi,
Speaker 3: what is your name and what is your position within
Speaker 3: Career Services?
Speaker 4: Hi, my name is Jade Moreno. I'm a career counselor
Speaker 4: at Career Services. I serve as a lead career counselor
Speaker 4: for the College of Architecture and Environmental Design And I'm
Speaker 4: also a generalist.
Speaker 1: What kinds of services does the cow poly Career Center
Speaker 1: or the cow Poly Career Services provide?
Speaker 4: Think of us as basically anything career related. So resumes,
Speaker 4: mock interviews, you help with applying for CRAD school cover letters,
Speaker 4: maybe you've never written one before, finding an on campus job, internship,
Speaker 4: full time job search. Maybe you just want a network
Speaker 4: and talk to people who are doing work that you're
Speaker 4: interested in. So anything career related is what I would
Speaker 4: describe is what our center does to support students.
Speaker 3: Whenever I hear the word resume, immediately my heart's like
Speaker 3: poo bom, boom boom, because I'm like, is mine right?
Speaker 3: I don't know if like what this should look like?
Speaker 3: So just real quick, like how long should a resume be?
Speaker 3: And like what font size like should you be using
Speaker 3: when you're creating a resume?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Really good questions I first want to start with. Resumes
Speaker 4: are very subjective, but a general rule I would say
Speaker 4: is take as an undergrad to keep it one page.
Speaker 4: Definitely print it out to see if you can read it,
Speaker 4: Like have different people look at it, because I've looked
Speaker 4: at some and I'm like, WHOA, that's tiny font I
Speaker 4: can't really readin. Yeah, as you're progressing here at cal Poly,
Speaker 4: start taking off the high school. They really want to
Speaker 4: know what you're doing at cal Poly outside of your classes.
Speaker 4: So it's like be club involvement, maybe you're volunteering in
Speaker 4: the community. Maybe you also can put class projects too.
Speaker 4: A lot of students don't know that, like, oh, I've
Speaker 4: actually done something a really cool project that's related to
Speaker 4: that internship I'm applying for.
Speaker 1: Kind of side question to that, what's the difference between
Speaker 1: a resume and a CV, and like when and where
Speaker 1: should you be using resume versus CV? Yeah, good question.
Speaker 4: So resumes, as I mentioned, undergrad typically one page, but
Speaker 4: a CV there's no length. You can have a couple
Speaker 4: pages and you can put everything. It's usually to more
Speaker 4: for like academic positions, research positions. So you'll see that
Speaker 4: on grad school applications we'll say resume or CV, so
Speaker 4: it's more academic related, but people use those words interchangeably,
Speaker 4: but resumes think of it as one page. Cvs are
Speaker 4: usually more extensive and there's no page length, and usually
Speaker 4: for more academic positions.
Speaker 3: Okay, so I mean you're already diving into some really
Speaker 3: good topics that I feel like a student would really
Speaker 3: want to know more about. So where can students find you?
Speaker 3: And like, how do they make an appointment with career services?
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a couple different ways, so it depends on
Speaker 4: the student's preference. Maybe you're I don't know a PCV
Speaker 4: and you don't want to walk that far, so you
Speaker 4: can schedule a virtual far Well, we're located by the
Speaker 4: football stadium, so okay, it's a little far a walk,
Speaker 4: so if you don't want to walk, you can schedule
Speaker 4: a virtual appointment, or you can in person. And then
Speaker 4: another thing, you can just hop into our virtual drop
Speaker 4: in hours Monday through Friday. So the zoom link is
Speaker 4: on our website. If you have an urgent question, drop
Speaker 4: in would be perfect even for a quick resume review
Speaker 4: and you're like, I don't have time to schedule, Just
Speaker 4: talk to someone real quick and we'll get you connected
Speaker 4: to resources.
Speaker 1: It sounds like you offer one on one meetings, but
Speaker 1: I know you guys do workshops as well, don't you.
Speaker 1: Can you just kind of explain the different spaces where
Speaker 1: you can access these resources.
Speaker 4: I think going to our workshops is a great way
Speaker 4: to learn a new skill. I recommend that students take
Speaker 4: advantage of these workshops sooner than later, like don't wait
Speaker 4: till your senior year, because you can learn new skills
Speaker 4: related to your resume, learn all about the grad school process,
Speaker 4: maybe salary negotiation. So you can come to these workshops.
Speaker 4: Basically you'll come in in person. A lot of them
Speaker 4: are in person, some of them are over zoom, so
Speaker 4: if you can always listen in and we definitely get
Speaker 4: some good attendance virtual as well. We also have info
Speaker 4: sessions at career services, so you can come in again
Speaker 4: virtual or person. I've been seeing quite a few that
Speaker 4: are in person, and it's been pretty packed in our
Speaker 4: conference room. But employers will come in and give a
Speaker 4: presentation and you can ask and just learn about what
Speaker 4: they do, so it's not necessarily they're there to Like
Speaker 4: a career fair is an info session, so that's a
Speaker 4: great way as well to learn about careers and to
Speaker 4: connect with employers. I think a big thing that we're
Speaker 4: known for in addition to career counseling. So when you
Speaker 4: think of services, I think the first thing is like
Speaker 4: career counselors. Yes, we have an awesome team eight counselors.
Speaker 4: Another great resource that Career Services offers is our career fairs.
Speaker 4: We host about ten a year. We just hosted our
Speaker 4: all Career Fair and our Competing Career Fair a couple
Speaker 4: of weeks ago. What I'd recommend for students who want
Speaker 4: to go to our career fair is actually take a
Speaker 4: look at the employer list. We have it available online
Speaker 4: through Mustang Jobs. Take a look to see if it's
Speaker 4: a good fit for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I remember I went to a career fair for
Speaker 1: my first time ever last year as a third year,
Speaker 1: and it was actually really fun and like productive. What
Speaker 1: about on the interview side of that, if you have
Speaker 1: any suggestions, I know Kate and I talked about it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, knowing the job description really well because you want
Speaker 4: to tailor your responses to that position. Sometimes students are like,
Speaker 4: well I want to learn, I want to grow. Yes,
Speaker 4: that'll happen, but focus on their needs how you can
Speaker 4: help them. You know, ask intentional questions. So do you
Speaker 4: prepare a couple questions that you do want to ask.
Speaker 4: It's better to have questions rather than saying no, I don't.
Speaker 4: Asking questions is going to demonstrate that you're really interested
Speaker 4: in the candidate, and it'll.
Speaker 1: Be it'll come off as a red flag.
Speaker 4: If you're like, no, don't have any questions, They'll be like, what,
Speaker 4: they're not interested in us, So you want to demonstrate
Speaker 4: some interest. Another tip that I'd recommend is learning how
Speaker 4: to use the car technique or the star technique.
Speaker 1: You guys heard of that, No I have not that, Like,
Speaker 1: tell me more, Yeah, I've been doing something in all
Speaker 1: my interviews that I don't know about.
Speaker 4: It's a great way to frame your responses. So we
Speaker 4: have an awesome interviewing guidebook on our website. You can
Speaker 4: google and find it there. But it's a way to
Speaker 4: frame your responses when I when I coach students with
Speaker 4: interviews that really helps them, they're like, Okay, I can
Speaker 4: give my answers in this kind of formula. So CAR
Speaker 4: stands for challenge, A stands for action, and are as
Speaker 4: a result. So whenever possible, try to frame your answers
Speaker 4: in that way, because you're going to give a concrete example.
Speaker 4: So car technique is definitely helpful for behavioral questions. Behavioral
Speaker 4: questions are sometimes like tell me about a time you
Speaker 4: encountered conflict with a team member and how did you
Speaker 4: resolve it. That's a behavioral question to assess your potential
Speaker 4: with working with others. So that's a great way to
Speaker 4: frame your responses when you're interviewing. They want to hear
Speaker 4: concrete examples. So that's a great tip I'd love to
Speaker 4: pass on. We have that in our interviewing guidebook. We
Speaker 4: can also practice with you doing walk interviews. But if
Speaker 4: you can practice that car technique, challenge, action, result, and
Speaker 4: whenever possible, try to frame your answers that way. Interviewers
Speaker 4: are going to love that because you're framing it in
Speaker 4: a concrete way and you're walking them through it rather
Speaker 4: than being really vague.
Speaker 2: I'm so yeah, that's such a good tip. I hate
Speaker 2: that up.
Speaker 3: We've talked about like LinkedIn, indeed, all those online platforms
Speaker 3: we talked about, career affairs, We've talked about just like Google, searching,
Speaker 3: word of mouth, all of that. But do you have
Speaker 3: any other tips of like how to just get that
Speaker 3: process starting, because it can be really scary sometimes.
Speaker 4: Absolutely. I remember feeling that when I was a senior,
Speaker 4: like Meek, I'm graduating soon. It's coming up, like I'm
Speaker 4: going to be in the real world, and like I
Speaker 4: need a job.
Speaker 1: Student loans are on my mind, terrifying.
Speaker 4: Generally, what I'd recommend is have multiple approaches when you're
Speaker 4: searching for a job, not just one job board, like
Speaker 4: talk to your peers, talk to your faculty too. If
Speaker 4: there's other job boards you can use. Definitely how Poly's
Speaker 4: job board musting jobs, It's on your portal. There's filters
Speaker 4: you can filter by location. It's helpful to know your
Speaker 4: target location. And then a big part what I'd recommend
Speaker 4: as seniors who are graduating a couple quarters from now
Speaker 4: or maybe even next quarter, is start thinking about how
Speaker 4: can you incorporate networking a bit more.
Speaker 3: Okay, so we've kind of flown through all of these,
Speaker 3: So before we wrap up, are there any other things
Speaker 3: that you'd like to add?
Speaker 4: I really want students to know that we're a welcoming place,
Speaker 4: even if you're not even entirely sure what question to ask,
Speaker 4: and you put in your appointment note, like just want
Speaker 4: to connect and say hi. That's a great way to
Speaker 4: start it. We're really good at asking questions making you
Speaker 4: feel welcome. You don't have to have a perfect question
Speaker 4: to meet with us to just get connected, and like,
Speaker 4: I just want to learn more and talk about my interests.
Speaker 4: And again, if you're feeling really lost or uncertain, please
Speaker 4: come get some support.
Speaker 2: You don't have to do that alone.
Speaker 4: To connect with us. To make an appointment, you're essentially
Speaker 4: going to log into Mustang Jobs, click on the career
Speaker 4: counseling tab and you can schedule there, and you also
Speaker 4: can find our virtual drop in zoom link and our hours.
Speaker 4: All that information is on our homepage. It'll say meet
Speaker 4: with a career counselor on the bottom right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that was great, Thank you. I didn't realize,
Speaker 1: like even just the word career what that all could encompass. Yeah, same,
Speaker 1: and like you should, like even just talking about major,
Speaker 1: like I guess major and career kind of becomes anonymous
Speaker 1: when you're here. So it was really cool and very
Speaker 1: very informative. So thank you so much for meeting with
Speaker 1: us today and sharing all your lovely advice and expertise.
Speaker 4: You're very welcome.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Jade, Thank you.
Speaker 3: I mean, we are absolutely not qualified to talk on
Speaker 3: all of those topics. It was really nice having someone
Speaker 3: from career Services here today.
Speaker 1: Well that's all the time we have for today. One
Speaker 1: last piece of advice. Stop listening to this fabulous CP
Speaker 1: one on one episode and go and get a job.
Speaker 1: We believe. Don't be lazy, but we believe in you.
Speaker 1: Go check out indeed LinkedIn handshake Cowpoly and go find
Speaker 1: yourself a lovely little job.
Speaker 3: Anyways, we'll be back with more tips and tricks next
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