Interview Preparation

It is crucial that you prepare for any potential interviews. Luckily for you, Toppel offers you multiple ways to do this.

Learn & Practice: Big Interview

Big Interview is an online system that combines training AND practice to help improve your interview technique and build your confidence. You have at your disposal a variety of tools including:

  • Challenging, virtual mock interviews for all experience levels and dozens of industries
  • A database of thousands of interview questions with tips on how to answer them
  • The ability to rate and share your interview answers for feedback
  • A comprehensive video training curriculum covering all aspects of landing a job
  • A step-by-step interview Answer Builder for crafting answers to behavioral questions
  • The platform includes a Negotiation Curriculum with short, easy-to-follow video lessons that break down how to talk about salary, benefits, and other parts of an offer.

Click here to get started

Practice Interviews

The Toppel Career Center has several options to help prepare you for your upcoming interview: 

  1. Utilize Big Interview to complete one of our 14 custom interviews and submit your recording for career coach feedback.
    1. Follow these instructions to access one of our custom interviews.
    2. Record yourself in a comfortable setting whenever you want, at any time of the day.
    3. Feedback is provided in no more than 3-5 business days.
  2. If one of our pre-created interviews on Big Interview does not fit your needs, browse the practice interviews and question library in your Big Interview dashboard to record answers to the interview question/s of choice using these instructions.
    1. Email any interview responses you'd like feedback on to coaching.toppel@miami.edu.
    2. Record yourself in a comfortable setting whenever you want, at any time of the day.
    3. Feedback is provided in no more than 3-5 business days.
  3. Meet with a peer career coach during drop-in hours for a 20-minute practice interview where you will receive feedback to help you prepare.
    1. Drop-in hours are Monday-Friday, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.  
    2. Meetings can be in person or virtual at https://tinyurl.com/toppel.  
  4. If already met with a peer career coach previously, schedule a 30-minute practice interview appointment with a staff career coach.
    1. Schedule appointments by speaking with a Guest Experience Assistant in person at the Toppel Career Center, virtually at https://tinyurl.com/toppel, or by calling 305-284-5451.
    2. Students must have previously met with a peer career coach before scheduling an appointment.

Use our ChatGPT Prompt Guide to help you prepare answers for your upcoming interview and create questions to ask your interviewers.

Employer Practice Interviews & Critiques (EPIC)

The Employer Practice Interviews & Critique (EPIC) program is an exciting way to gain a competitive edge by meeting with actual employers. Students are paired with a recruiter for a 30-minute resume critique or practice interview. This program occurs each fall and spring semester and usually coincides with the Job & Internship Expo.

Informational Interviews

Informational interviews are a way to request further information about a career you might be interested in or a company you might want to work for. It is not meant to be a job interview. 

Check out this guide that our Toppel staff has put together to conduct an informational interview! 

Learn how to get the most out of an informational interview.

 

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