F2F Class Notes March 13th (Ben)

Common questions in interviews

Introduce yourself (Ben’s advice: keep it short)

Why do you want to study communication?

Why do you want to study communication here?

Try to summarize your life path in 3-4 big areas or accomplishments. Be ready to tell the story behind each one of them. You can use them to answer most questions.

Example: What is one of your qualities ?

• I am very hard-working and disciplined. I can work very hard.   –> boring
• One of my qualities is that I’m pretty hardworking. When I was in university, I discovered radio broadcasting by chance at one of the events of the school. I decided to take part in the club and started by choosing music tracks to broadcast on the school radio station. I got curious and also started developing new programs, like interviewing local teachers or students and people of the staff. As the radio grew in popularity, the older team graduated and I was chosen to become the director of the channel. That year, we decided to do something pretty new by launching our own event at the end of the semester. We decided to invite local bands to play, invite some students from other clubs, such as the sports team and theater club. I was really stressed by the deadline because we only had 3 weeks to complete this and the end-of-term exams exams were at the same time. I must have slept a total of 10 hours over a whole week, but in the end we made it ! It was a great hit and I still made it to the highest 5th percentile.  –> attention-catching