Welcome to the 411 on Business Core, Marketing, & Entrepreneurship!

Be sure to follow for updates to homework, upcoming events, change in professional dress days, as well as other tips and tidbits to help you get ahead in the business world today.

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Updates:

Business Core: Your Professional Dress days will be on every Thursday of the month unless otherwise noted. Remember, this may change with guest speakers, field trips, or presentations (typically these will replace the Thursday dress days for the week).

Marketing/Entrepreneurship: Your Professional Dress days will be on every Friday of the month unless otherwise noted. Remember, this may change with guest speakers, field trips, or presentations (typically these will replace the Thursday dress days for the week).

ACING INTERVIEWS

Three key issues to address in any job interview (The Job Hunt Coach)


Employers want to know 
(1) that you can do the job
(2) that you want to do the job
(3) that you will get along with others at the job

View Three Key Issues to Address

Toughest Interview Question - Tell Me About Yourself (Nesco Resource)

How to "tell people about you" (example starts at 2:23-4:01 - 1 minute 38 seconds)
(1) Brief introduction
(2) Personal strengths
(3) Link your strengths with the company needs
(4) Special examples of accomplishment (remember stories are memorable)
(5) Provide measurable evidence of success
(6) Summarize your key attributes
(7) Show interest in current projects

View Tell Me About Yourself

Toughest Interview Questions -  What are your greatest weaknesses? (Nesco Resource)

How to give an honest answer and recover (example at 2:09-3:01)
(1) Acknowledge a real, human weakness 
- do your research on who you really are 
- businesses want to see how honest you are
- they are looking for insightful information that help them to know more about you
(2) Underdog Mode (making a comeback and overcoming the shortcoming)
pick a trait thaarhus are currently addressing to overcome
- want to know how you deal with your weakness
- express how you leverage your strengths to overcome your professional shortcoming 
- remember no ones perfect but it's how we deal with it that show character 
- listen to The Underdogs performed by Weezer

View What Are Your Greatest Weaknesses