This online behavioral interview assignment taught me much about what I must do to prepare for my first job interview. I struggled to complete my video responses to the interview questions in a timely manner, and discovered just how difficult talking about myself for an entire minute can truly be. I am very glad I have yet to interview for a job in the real world, because I feel as though my initial answer to each question was very scattered, poorly delivered, and ultimately would not land me a good job. Due to this assignment, I have learned my weakness of creating purposeful “fluff” or details to my answers, as well as my strength of eye contact and ease of answering questions I have honest answers for. To begin discussing my weaknesses, I feel it is necessary to address that it took me over three hours to complete five one to two minute responses to basic interview questions. At first it was because I was being extremely hard on myself and would not settle for anything less than “perfect.” After the first attempt of over an hour passed, I took a few days to step away from the assignment and clear my …show more content…
I felt as though I had to make something up in order to tailor my answer to the question. This was a terrible idea because I am a horrible liar. I was trying to add fake “fluff” in order to reach the one minute mark, but quickly realized this strategy (if you can call it that) was proving to be unsuccessful. After I took to the approach I mentioned earlier, I discovered my strength of telling an honest story as my answer. It became incredibly easy to reach the one minute minimum, and at times I had to redo videos for being over the two minute limit. This turn of events was a huge eye-opener for me since it showed me how I need to go about answering questions in an interview. The more I could relate to a question and be open about my story, the more heartfelt my responses