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CSUN Free Workshop

Title: CSUN Free WorkshopLocation: Sierra Hall 390Description: B3 Parking Structure Start Time: 18:45Date: 2009-12-15End Time: 20:15

College Interview Questions

Here a just a few common interview questions and some suggestions on how to answer them. Remember that most of your college interviews will be conducted by alumni or students. Some do not hold much weight while others are comparable to a good letter of reccomendation. What’s your greatest weakness? ?It’s an interview cliche, but it still gets asked. The key is to come up with something that is truthful, yet doesn’t impact your ability to do the job, according to career coach and blogger, Miriam Salpeter. More important than what you identify as a weakness is the part about how you’ve overcome it. Salpeter offers this example: A computer programmer might say, “Speaking in front of very large crowds really scares me, but I’ve…

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College Interview Questions

Here a just a few common interview questions and some suggestions on how to answer them.  Remember that most of your college interviews will be conducted by alumni or students.  Some do not hold much weight while others are comparable to a good letter of reccomendation. What’s your greatest weakness? ?It’s an interview cliche, but it still gets asked. The key is to come up with something that is truthful, yet doesn’t impact your ability to do the job, according to career coach and blogger, Miriam Salpeter. More important than what you identify as a weakness is the part about how you’ve overcome it. Salpeter offers this example: A computer programmer might say, “Speaking in front of very large crowds really scares me, but I’ve…

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Community College Transfer Policies

I recently read this article in the LA Times and realized that students and parents need to be on the ball with academic counseling at the Community College level.  No matter if yoe are a full time student or a concurrently enrolled high school student, make sure you are taking the right courses. Community college student Kristen Grand dreams of transferring to Cal State Long Beach so she can earn a bachelor's degree in social work and become an adoption caseworker. But the process of accumulating the right course work and filling all the requirements is overwhelming, the 26-year-old says. "It's kind of stressful," Grand said after class at Long Beach City College one afternoon this week. "Finances, for one, and whether I'm going to…

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