Make sure you bring your students with you! The Topic is: Using your talents and interests to find your career path - Megan Collier from WMMR radio station will share how she uses her talents and interests to create an interesting and fulfilling life.
The second half of the meeting will feature Temple University's Ambler Campus admissions officer Sue MC Caffery who will talk to us about how to navigate the admissions' process.
We will also look at the book- by Ashley Stanford, Business for Aspies; 42 Best Practices for Using Asperger Syndrome Traits at Work Successfully.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Types of Job Interviews - Different Types of Job Interviews
Types of Job Interviews - Different Types of Job Interviews
An exit interview is a meeting between an employee who has resigned or been terminated and the company's Human Resources department.
Job Interview Types
Interviews: Behavioral, Dining, Exit, Second, Group, Phone, Video
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There are a variety of types of interviews that employers may conduct, including behavioral interviews, group interviews, phone and video interviews, second interviews, and even interviews held during a meal. Review the different types of interviews, along with tips on how to interview effectively, regardless of the situation you're in.
Job Interview Types
Behavioral Interviews
Behavioral based interviewing is interviewing based on discovering how the interviewee acted in specific employment-related situations.
Informational Interview
An informational interview is an interview conducted to collect information about a job, career field, industry or company.
Lunch and Dinner Interviews
One of the reasons employers take job candidates out to lunch or dinner is to evaluate their social skills and to see if they can handle themselves gracefully under pressure
Group Interviews
There are two types of group interviews. One is being interviewed by a group (or panel) of interviewers, the other is being interviewed with a group of other applicants.
Interviews in a Public Place
Employers sometimes schedule job interviews in a public place, like a coffee shop or restaurant. Here are tips on how to interview in public.
Second Interviews
You passed the first interview with flying colors and you just got a call to schedule a second interview. Here are suggestions on how to use your second job interview to help secure an offer.
Structured Interview
A structured interview is a standardized method of comparing job candidates. A structured interview format is typically used when an employer wants to assess and compare candidates impartially. If the position requires specific skills and experience, the employer will draft interview questions focusing exactly on the abilities the company is seeking.
Unstructured Interview
An unstructured interview is a job interview in which questions may be changed based on the interviewee's responses. While the interviewer may have a few set questions prepared in advance, the direction of the interview is rather casual, and questions flow is based on the direction of the conversation.
Panel Job Interview
A panel job interview takes place when an applicant for employment is interviewed by a panel of interviewers. In some cases, the candidate will meet seperately with the panel. In other cases, there will be panel of interviewers and multiple candidates all in the same room.
Telephone Interviews
While you're actively job searching, it's important to be prepared for a phone interview on a moment's notice.
Video Interviews
Tips and suggestions for successfully interviewing via video.
An exit interview is a meeting between an employee who has resigned or been terminated and the company's Human Resources department.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
A Note to All workers- Attitude is Everything!
A Note to Teen Workers
Dear Supermarket Cashier (or Movie Theater Usher, Fast Food Worker, etc.), I know you don't want to be here. You'd rather be hanging out with your friends, IMing, playing video games or even doing homework. It's not like I was dying to go shopping today. I would much rather have gone straight home, but I had to pick up something to make for dinner. I did however say hello when I approached your register. You could have responded with more than a grunt. It wasn't my fault you were there -- well, I guess maybe it was. If I (and other residents of my neighborhood) didn't shop in the store that employs you it would cease to exist and so would your after school/weekend job. I don't expect you to strike up a conversation (although the much older cashier three registers down was chatting up her customers), but I do expect you to be cordial. By the way, chatting briefly with your customers as they pass through your lane would make your afternoon go much more quickly. I expect you to say hello and I expect you to say thank you when our transaction is complete. I'm sorry your boss didn't teach you that. He or she should have, but regardless, it's a lesson you should learn now. This is the first of several jobs you will have throughout your hopefully prosperous career and a pleasant attitude will go a long way.
A Note to Teen Workers
By Dawn Rosenberg McKay, About.com January 28, 2011Dear Supermarket Cashier (or Movie Theater Usher, Fast Food Worker, etc.), I know you don't want to be here. You'd rather be hanging out with your friends, IMing, playing video games or even doing homework. It's not like I was dying to go shopping today. I would much rather have gone straight home, but I had to pick up something to make for dinner. I did however say hello when I approached your register. You could have responded with more than a grunt. It wasn't my fault you were there -- well, I guess maybe it was. If I (and other residents of my neighborhood) didn't shop in the store that employs you it would cease to exist and so would your after school/weekend job. I don't expect you to strike up a conversation (although the much older cashier three registers down was chatting up her customers), but I do expect you to be cordial. By the way, chatting briefly with your customers as they pass through your lane would make your afternoon go much more quickly. I expect you to say hello and I expect you to say thank you when our transaction is complete. I'm sorry your boss didn't teach you that. He or she should have, but regardless, it's a lesson you should learn now. This is the first of several jobs you will have throughout your hopefully prosperous career and a pleasant attitude will go a long way.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
"Half of Silicon Valley has something you'd call Asperger's": Interview with Temple Grandin | Artery
"Half of Silicon Valley has something you'd call Asperger's": Interview with Temple Grandin | Artery
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Diagnosed with autism early in her childhood, Temple Grandin’s seemingly improbable success as an animal behavior scientist and designer of livestock-handling equipment has made her a bestselling author and one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world for 2010. Later today, the 63-year-old author, scientist and advocate will speak at Duke University for the talk “My Experience with Animals.”
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Monday, February 21, 2011
Interviews
"Half of Silicon Valley has something you'd call Asperger's": Interview with Temple Grandin
- Photo by Angus Bremner
Grandin, who received an honorary doctorate from Duke last year, spoke with us by telephone recently.
“I talk a lot about visual thinking, and animal behavior, and trying to combining those things together, and how being a visual thinker helped me in my animal behavior work,” says Grandin.
“And it’s Duke’s Women’s Studies group, so I’ll talk about getting started in the 1970s in a man’s world, which was real, real difficult.”
Grandin’s work came into the spotlight last year when HBO aired a TV-movie, Temple Grandin, which went on to win seven Emmy awards, including one for Claire Danes for her portrayal of Grandin.
“Oh man, I’ve gotten so much busier!” says Grandin of the film’s success. “All I do now is travel, giving talks.”
Indeed, our conversation takes place during a layover between flights to different appearances. After appearing at Duke, she’ll hop a plane to Washington, D.C., for a meeting with the American Meat Institute.
She describes herself as “sort of like Google for pictures,” and is impressed by how more defined the autism spectrum has become since she was growing up.
“Half of Silicon Valley has something you’d call Asperger’s—I’m sure Mark Zuckerberg has something like that,” Grandin says. “You’d almost have to have a touch of Asperger’s to be that good a programmer. Social circuits take up a pile of processor space in the brain, and then you don’t have the processor space to make stuff like Facebook.”
In some ways, she feels that the advancements in technology and social media have helped humans develop a more fractured type of visual thinking closer to animals, though in some ways this worries her.
“To create something like Google, people had to sit still for hundreds of hours to learn how to program,” Grandin says. “We’re getting a lot of people today texting all the time, fragmenting their attention. It’s ironic that the thing that they text on has to be made by someone who is not distracted and is looking at information in whole bits for long periods of time.”
Grandin says that while she stays focused on her work, she appreciates the effect that her story has on people. “I get students, young kids on the spectrum, telling me, ‘Your movie’s motivating me to study harder in school,’ or someone will e-mail me saying, ‘My kid’s an Eagle Scout now because of your book.’”
“That’s the sort of stuff that motivates me—it’s sort of like I’ve got a new job now.”
Grandin appears at the Baldwin Auditorium on Duke’s East Campus at 4:30 p.m.; the talk is free and open to the public, but the event is now full; tickets are no longer available
Monday, February 21, 2011
College Job Interview Questions
College Job Interview Questions
College Job Interview Questions
Thursday February 17, 2011
When you are a college student or recent graduate, it's important to be prepared for interviews for jobs, internships, and volunteer experiences.
Employers won't cut you much, if any, slack just because you don't have a lot of interviewing experience. The college job market is competitive and it's important to be in a good position to ace the interview.
Here's advice on how to prepare for a job interview. Also review these college job interview questions you may be asked during a college job interview along with sample answers. That way, you can think about how you'll respond ahead of time.
Do take the time to personalize your responses and connect them to what you've accomplished in college, the courses you have taken, and your skills and attributes as they related to the job you're interviewing for.
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Saturday, February 19, 2011
Open House - Pennsylvania College of Technology
Open House - Pennsylvania College of Technology
Register for Open House and receive a personalized guide to help you make the most of your day.
Details, including the activity guide, will be posted in early March.
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Saturday, March 26, 2011
9 a.m. - 3 p.m.Register for Open House and receive a personalized guide to help you make the most of your day.
Details, including the activity guide, will be posted in early March.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Don't miss this great opportunity to visit Penn College during the weekend.
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- Tour campus with a student ambassador and hear a student’s perspective on Penn College.
- Attend a Choosing Your Major session to find out what career areas are a match to your interests and abilities.
- Tour on-campus housing and hear from students about what it’s like to live on campus.
- Interact with current students at the Campus LIfe Involvement Fair and learn more about student clubs and organizations, athletics, dining services, and campus life!
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Thought for today
"The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark."
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