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Summary: Potential employers often ask about college and previous employers. Learn about past experience questions to expect on job interviews in this free career advice video from a communications expert.

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Tracy Goodwin Tracy Goodwin has a master’s in corporate communication and 10 years experience in professional speaking. Recipient of numerous public speaking awards and is ... read more

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Job Interviews: Past Experience Questions

Ok now, let me give you a little tip. The person that is interviewing you, or interviewers in general, especially if they're coming from the HR department, Human Resources, they are evaluation the answers to these, these common questions, if you will, based on a predetermined value. And, what I'm talking about is, what is the norm? What is general for the expectation? What is everyone who applies for these positions generally have in common or generally respond? And that's going to go for those other common questions that I've talked about, but we'll especially go for these three, which are also common questions. College and this is, you know, talking about where did you go to college? What kind of degree did you have, did you receive? You know, the common denominator is a Masters Degree, then that's how they're going to evaluate your answer to this. Or, you know, I got a 4.0 or I got a 3.2, depending on what they're looking for, you know, well, I got, you know I, I didn't like college, I didn't do good, I made a 1.8. Well, they've already got a predetermined value of what they're looking for. This also goes for past employers. And I'm talking about, maybe they have a predetermined value that you've been with each employer, they're looking for people that have been with set employer for at least three years, or at least five years. They have a value that's set for this, and it's pretty much a standard value across the board, as well as just jobs that you've had. You know, summer jobs, jobs during college, you know, what is the expectation of what they're looking for? And so you, you probably can guarantee that you're going to be able to talk about these opportunities as well, similar to what you're going to be talking about in the common questions.

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