Hello esteemed alumni members, friends, and supporters, welcome and thank you for sharing my message for the month of May. An important commitment among members of the CAAAI Executive Branch is to promote positive thinking and forward thinking. With this in mind, we prayerfully and eagerly look forward to states around this country and in the Caribbean to fully open up soon in a ‘post covid’ environment. We are also aware that covid has negatively affected Cambridge Alumni members and their families in different ways to include health, finance, working from home, teaching our children at home, and job losses due to companies that closed their doors since the beginning of the pandemic. But we are determined to bounce right back as conditions return to normal, and as the job markets begin opening up again.
In order to do that, we must be prepared to re-enter the workplace at any and every level. We also know that (no fault of ours) some of us have not done a job interview for sometime, so I hope that the following simple tips will be of help to someone in getting ready for a new job or regaining an old one.
- Prepare and update your resume. Send it in, and walk with a few copies.
- Practice talking to a mirror as if you are talking to an interviewer.
- Dress well (to impress), and be 5-10 minutes early.
- Calm down. Say a silent prayer.
- When asked, sell yourself for 5-10 minutes (knowledge, experience, ability, trustworthiness).
- Ask your interviewers important questions about the job itself.
- Try to control the interview in the first 5-10 minutes.
- Toward the end of the interview, remind them of your strengths.
- Leave your interviewers thinking that you have something the firm needs.
- Send a ‘thank you’ email, letter, or note the next day.
- Follow-up with phone calls or emails asking about the status of your interview.
As always, please send us an email or call a committee member or me directly (240-328-7044) and tell us your thoughts and ideas, or if you would like to share something on the website with the Cambridge family. Until next month, stay safe, and take care of each other.
Submitted by
Dr. Aubrey F. Bentham, President-CAAAI
