Employment Interview Preparation: A Writing-to-Learn Approach

Many career experts, including the authors, agree that job-seekers are better prepared and perform better in job interviews when they have written and rehearsed answers to common interview questions. Novice job-seekers, such as college students, often have little or no interviewing experience, and because of this inexperience, some college instructors assign various interviewing-related projects to students. This article suggests that many of the techniques used to aid students, such as mock interviews, are not only successful, but based on solid theory taken from a variety of fields. This article synthesizes the literature and describes one approach to enhancing our students ’ preparation for the job market