Career Services at Sonoma State University asks its students,
"Would You Hire You?"
Practice makes Perfect!
You've heard it said so many times. Making an excellent first impression is essential for a strong interview. This includes your appearance, your timeliness, but most importantly, your interviewing skills! Take a look at what happens to a few students who didn't prepare for their interview: www.interviewstream.com/ummlike. Don't let this happen to you!
Who really gets the job? The best qualified? The smartest candidate? Not necessarily! Most of the time, it's the person who is able to best sell his or her skills to employers in a professional and effective manner.
Before heading into your next interview, spend 30 minutes using our newest technology: InterviewStream!
You can stop into Career Services or sign up ahead of time to use this interactive online video-based practice interviewing tool. Have a webcam? You can even conduct an interview right now! This tool provides feedback and tips of non-verbal behavior and communication missteps, and so much more!
Getting Started
To utilize this software, you will need a webcam. If you have your own webcam, please go to Step #1.
If you do not have webcam, make an appointment with Career Services to use our mock interview room with an installed webcam. Please call (707) 664-2196 to schedule an appointment.
1. Login or create an account through Seawolf Jobs:
https://sonoma-csm.symplicity.com/students/
2. Click "Jump To" on the main student page of Seawolf Jobs
3. Choose your interview. Career Services recommends the “General Interview” questions. Or you can choose your 10 questions and click "submit".
4. Plug in/adjust the webcam on top and volume on the right side of the computer screen before beginning the interview.
5. The interviewer will ask you a question and you can then respond. When finished with your response, click the mouse and it will stop recording.
6. After each question, you can either "Retry" the response, "Skip" and come back to the question, "Review" to see your response, or choose "OK" to move on.
7. When the interview is complete, you will receive an email with a link to view your responses. You are then able to email your interview to a professor, mentor or career advisor to review and give feedback.