Assignment - Peer Behavioral Interview

For this assignment, you will conduct several mock (or practice) interviews. Mock interviews help you practice, receive feedback, and improve your skills. With adequate practice, you will:

• Better understand yourself, and your strengths and weaknesses
• Develop greater comfort and confidence speaking with unfamiliar people

Peer interviews

Use the class Discord channel to find classmates to conduct the interviews with.

• Set aside one hour (30 minutes to interview, 30 minutes to debrief) to conduct the interview.
• When you are the Interviewer (”Hiring Manager”), you should do the following:
  • Select 5 - 10 interview questions. You can choose the questions listed in the Lesson: Behavioral Interviews and Leveraging STAR Stories, or you can use the Interview Question Generator Tool to generate some additional questions.
  • Make a copy of the Peer Behavioral Interview Guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o0xHMDrCZL9z5v77aod_UGDmDlFWnCllQV2QOrRFvho/template/preview
  • Before the interview, fill out the interview guide by adding your selected questions in the Questions column. Your peer interview should last 30 minutes, so you will need 5 - 10 questions.
  • Conduct the interview. (Note: It might be worth recording the interview so that you can review it later. You don’t need to submit the recording, but it can be useful for your practice and improvement)
    • During the interview, you should note down how your interviewee is performing when answering each of your questions.
  • After the interview:
    • Debrief with your interviewee. Ask them how they felt, and give them some feedback on what they did well and areas of improvement.
    • Submit an evaluation of how your interviewee performed using the interviewer evaluation form: https://forms.gle/ektZESiVp3dMYNi66
    • Remind the classmate you interviewed that they need to complete the interviewee self-evaluation evaluation form: https://forms.gle/UfWRKdCK1qjvjrba6

Submission

• For each peer behavioral interview, you must submit the following document on Gradescope and Anchor.
  • When you were the Interviewer: The filled out Peer Interview Guide. This must include the questions you asked and the notes you took on your interviewee’s performance.
• Ensure you have submitted your interviewer evaluation Google forms for the 2 interviews where you were the interviewer and your interviewee evaluation form for the 2 interviews where you were the interviewee.