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Milkrounds offer a way
of timetabling a large number of interviews, while avoiding serious
clashes with both other interviews and important academic commitments.
Make sure you plan sufficient
time before and after all interviews to prepare, present and evaluate
adequately. Nothing creates more bad feeling all round than an interviewee
who does not attend at an arranged time and lets no one know.
There are very few good
reasons why a message of some sort cannot be passed to the Careers
Service, before the interview time, regardless of the emergency.
For that reason, the absence of an adequate explanation may result
in a withdrawal of all interview facilities to the individual concerned.
Many employers
notify their recruitment intentions to Careers Services before the
start of the autumn session. How you should respond will depend
on whether the employers you are interested in working for are coming
to your campus, or not. If not, you will obviously have to apply
to them directly.
Those firms who visit campuses will be coming in either the Autumn
or Spring to conduct first interviews.
Procedure
for Arranging On Campus Interviews
a) Collect a list of
visiting employers from your Careers Service. Read it through carefully,
checking the requirements of advertised vacancies against your own.
Make a list of 'possibles'.
b) Check the information
held by your Careers Service on the employers in question to ensure
that each employer on your 'possibles' list has vacancies in the
areas for which you are applying.
c) Collect one application
form for each employer to whom you are applying.
Don't be selfish and
take more than one.
Remember, others may
also want a form, and you can always photocopy the form to practice
on. This may be the employer's own form or the Standard Application
Form. Spare copies of employers' brochures may also be available.
Complete application
forms very carefully as you can assume pre selection will be used
in most cases.
d) Return your completed
application form to your Careers Service by the date specified in
the main list.
e) Make sure you complete
a booking form indicating to the Careers Service which employers
you are applying to.
f) The timetable listing
the applicants the employer wishes to interview will usually be
sent out approximately 5 days before the interviews, and will also
be displayed in the Careers Service.
If you have not received
notification of an interview two days before the visit, or heard
from the company that you have been unsuccessful in their pre
selection, check why!
g) Prepare yourself fully
for the interview.
This content
is © The University of Hull.
Edited and reproduced with kind permission from John Franks - Head
of Hull University Careers
Service. All Rights Reserved.
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