Interviewing

Failure!

Filed in From the Staff, Interviewing, Life at WPI by on October 30, 2017 3 Comments
Failure!

I was thrilled when I opened up Handshake the week after the Career Fair to find out I had been selected for an on campus interview. As a peer advisor, I’ve spent a lot of time helping my friends prepare for interviews, so it was especially exciting to be going through the process myself. I […]

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On Campus Interviewing

Filed in Finding a Job, From the Staff, Interviewing by on February 14, 2017 0 Comments

Hi all!   I’m here to give you some information about On-Campus Interviewing. Many companies come to you and do interviews on WPI’s campus(awesome, right??)! If you’re applying through jobs on Handshake, many of them provide On-Campus Interviews as the next step of the hiring process. Be sure to check your email and Handshake account […]

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Job Offer Time Crunch

Filed in Finding a Job, From the Staff, Interviewing by on October 31, 2016 1 Comment
Job Offer Time Crunch

OMG YAY I got a job offer! Wait, I only have 5 days to respond? I have interviews in a couple weeks, that’s not enough time! If this happened to you recently, don’t fret! The CDC is to help you with all your job offer and negotiations issues and concerns. This is actually pretty common […]

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Experiencing the On-Site Interivew

Filed in From the Staff, Interviewing by on October 14, 2015
Experiencing the On-Site Interivew

Hey Everyone! Hope finals week is going well for all of you, I can’t believe A term ends tomorrow! Today I wanted to talk to you about on-site interviews as I am on a train, coming back from mine. I know I am crazy to be going on an on-site interview during finals week, especially […]

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Interviewing Part 1: OCI

Filed in From the Staff, Interviewing by on October 9, 2015
Interviewing Part 1: OCI

Hey Everyone! You may have heard the term OCI many times and probably always wondered what that is? I don’t blame you, WPI has so many acronyms that we even have a website for it. It takes a while to remember a lot of them, but OCI is pretty important because it stands for On-Campus […]

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Panel Interviews

Filed in From the Staff, Interviewing by on March 30, 2015

Hey Everyone!!! I hope everyone has had a good start to their D-Term! I can’t believe it’s almost summer…even though it feels like winter will never end. I walked outside and there was snow today. It’s practically April and there is snow on the ground! Crazy! So a topic that has been brought up to me recently […]

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Getting Ready for an Interview

Filed in From the Staff, Interviewing by on March 6, 2015
Getting Ready for an Interview

Hey everyone! So earlier this week I wrote a blog called “the job hunt blues.” Finding an internship/job is hard work and it can be discouraging when you’ve sent out tons of applications and haven’t heard anything back. But if you use the CDC resources, switch up you job hunting strategies, and keep at it, an […]

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Interviewing Can Be Scary Stuff!

Filed in Interviewing by on November 2, 2014
Interviewing Can Be Scary Stuff!

Hey Everyone!! First off, I want to wish everyone a Happy Halloween! I hope all of you had a great day and ate a lot of candy! Now diving into the topic, I know interviews can be very scary and nerve-racking because you go into a room, get asked a bunch of questions from employers, […]

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Interviewing for IQP

Filed in Interviewing by on October 6, 2014
Interviewing for IQP

Hey everyone! I feel like all I’ve only been talking about is IQP this term…well because I have…but its mostly because I am so excited to go!!! I remember last year right around this time feeling stressed about the application and interview for going abroad. But the process is worth it in the end! I would definitely […]

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Network to Get Work

Filed in Finding a Job, Interviewing by on March 7, 2014 0 Comments
Network to Get Work

Field Sales Engineer/ Field Applications Engineer? Maybe 80% travel. Huge amount of customer interactions. Pretty high level solutions in engineering. Constant meetings with big business partners, leading the company in innovation and overall just having fun. That kinda sounds like me, to most people that really sounds like me. Eventually I started telling myself that […]

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