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Each year, the Hamilton College Career Center holds an Interview Crash Course for current seniors, designed to help graduating students sharpen up their skills before leaving the Hill and entering the job market.

As they approach graduation and are hitting the job market, Hamilton seniors had the opportunity to improve interviewing skills at the Career Center-sponsored Interview Crash Course on Jan. 26.

Interviews are scary. As alumnus Ward Halverson ’92 recalled his interview to work for Hamilton’s Admissions Office, he remembered “that was the first real interview that I’d ever really had, and I just kind of bombed it. I was so nervous and my mouth was dry.”

Nearly 50 Hamilton students met their match on Jan. 22 when they participated in the Career Center’s Communicate 301. The event, formerly known as Interview Mojo, pairs a student with an alumna/us, member of the business community or Hamilton staff member for a one-on-one mock job interview. This was the seventh year for the event.

In a competitive job market, interviewing is arguably the most determinative aspect of the hiring process. On Jan. 24, a group of students attended the Career and Life Outcomes Center’s Sixth Annual Interview Mojo, an “intensive event designed to provide a meaningful chance to learn about and practice the lifelong skill of interviewing.”

Some 55 nattily attired Hamilton College seniors took part in a dress rehearsal for life Sunday afternoon; they engaged in the Career and Life Outcomes Center’s Interview Mojo, which unfolded in the Fillius Events Barn and Tolles Pavilion. A platoon of staff, faculty, alumni, community members – and one parent – played the role of prospective employers and conducted mock interviews with the students, who were advised to come dressed for success. Some had been on interviews or practice interviews, some had not.

Some 120 students and community members recently spent the day working on their mojo—but there wasn’t much voodoo or magic involved. Instead, the group participated in the third iteration of the Career Center’s Interview Mojo program, which is aimed at helping students increase their facility with and confidence in professional interviews.

Hamilton’s Career Center is constantly evolving and creating new programming to help students achieve success following graduation. On Jan. 27 the Career Center launched its newest program, Interview Mojo, which focused on the skill of job interviewing and the ways in which it can be practiced and improved.

So, you got the call.  They want you to come in for an interview.  There’s only one problem: you’ve never had an interview before.  Don’t worry, Hamilton’s new tool InterviewStream is the solution!

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