The Job Interview (Workshop in German)
Hooray, you’ve made it: the invitation to an interview has arrived. Based on your cover letter, CV and references, a potential employer would like to get to know you.
But what now? What can you do to make the interview a success?
The fact is that it’s not just professionalism that leads to a hire, but also the “chemistry” between applicant and manager. But how can you influence this “chemistry”?
With some theoretical input, a few examples from my many years as a personnel manager and a small group exercise, you will get closer to these secrets.
When: Career Day, June 24, 2025 | 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Where: WiSo, LG 2.429
Registration: from May 26, 2025, 1 p.m. via StudOn
Coach: Bettina Hüpgens
Assessment Center Exercises – An Insight (Workshop in German)
The assessment center is an aptitude diagnostic procedure for personnel selection or personnel development, which is used to assess current competencies or forecast the professional development of assessed persons. The purpose of the training is to carry out various AC procedures and to become familiar with their components, significance and validity. In practical exercises, participants slip into the role of both the applicant and the assessor and can apply the basic knowledge they have acquired.
- Insight into the construction of exercises
- Overview of various AC exercises
- Implementation of typical AC exercises
When: Career Day, June 24, 2025 | 3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Where: WiSo, LG 2.429
Registration: from May 26, 2025, 1 p.m. via StudOn
Coach: Anett Eskofier
Interview Questions and How to Deal with them (Workshop in English)
Interviews can be nerve-wracking situations, especially when they take place in a language which is not your mother tongue, since you are forced to react spontaneously in that language. A real interview situation for an interesting position is not the best place to gather your first experience in dealing with interview questions in English, and this workshop offers students the opportunity to try things out in a “safe” environment. The workshop will discuss how students can prepare themselves well for interview situations. Students will practise preparing answers for common interview questions and can bring along any questions they have encountered and would like to discuss. The workshop will also deal with making the most of behavioural questions, using the STAR approach, strong action words, and demonstrating the all-important transferable skills. We will also practice dealing with questions that target negative events, poor grades etc. with a view to finding the positives in negative experience.
When: Career Day, June 24, 2025 | 3.30 p.m. – 5.30 p.m.
Where: WiSo, LG 0.424
Registration: from May 26, 2025, 1 p.m. via StudOn
Coach: Rona McGeoch