Teaching Business Interviewing Strategies with An Experiential Approach

Resumen

This article describes an experiential program designed to assist students in developing effective job seeking skills. One major goal of this program is to point out that the effectiveness of the interviewing process and the nature of judgments rendered, are primarily dependent upon the communicative skills of the participants. The experiential program consists of three components: self-assessment, career exploration, and placement. Readings, experiential exercises, and specific assignments are used to assist students with their own individualized job search process. This program has been found to be very effective and very much in demand by college students and other job seekers.